First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors - Landscaping Workers

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of landscaping workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishment where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same landscaping work as the workers they supervise.

Job Task

• Directs workers in maintenance and repair of driveways, walkways, benches, graves, and mausoleums.
• Observes ongoing work to ascertain if work is being performed according to instructions and will be completed on time.
• Determines work priority, crew and equipment requirements, and assigns workers tasks, such as planting, fertilizing, irrigating, and mowing.
• Directs and assists workers engaged in maintenance and repair of equipment such as powermower and backhoe, using hand tools and power tools.
• Confers with manager to develop plans and schedules for maintenance and improvement of grounds.
• Keeps employee time records, and records daily work performed.
• Interviews, hires, and discharges workers.
• Assists workers in performing work when completion is critical.
• Tours grounds, such as park, botanical garden, cemetery, or golf course to inspect conditions.
• Trains workers in tasks, such as transplanting and pruning trees and shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, and caring for turf.
• Mixes and prepares spray and dust solutions, and directs application of fertilizer, insecticide, and fungicide.

Looking for a job in First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors - Landscaping Workers? Check out these great job search websites. Thousands of job opportunities and reseach for a new career! Includes job search websites from Australia and internationally