Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in landscaping or groundskeeping activities. Work may involve reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and workforce requirements; answering inquiries from potential customers regarding methods, material, and price ranges; and preparing estimates according to labor, material, and machine costs.
<ul><li>Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.</li><li>Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.</li><li>Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.</li><li>Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.</li><li>Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.</li><li>Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.</li><li>Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.</li><li>Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.</li><li>Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.</li><li>Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets.</li><li>Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.</li><li>Answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, or price ranges.</li><li>Perform personnel-related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, or taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur.</li><li>Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs.</li><li>Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses.</li><li>Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.</li><li>Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.</li><li>Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.</li><li>Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.</li><li>Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.</li><li>Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.</li><li>Negotiate with customers regarding fees for landscaping, lawn service, or groundskeeping work.</li><li>Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.</li><li>Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment use to increase crew efficiency.</li><li>Confer with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement.</li></ul>