According to people in this career, the main tasks are...
| Task | Importance |
|---|---|
| Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety. | 85% |
| Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions. | 84% |
| Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil. | 84% |
| Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained. | 84% |
| Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs. | 83% |
| Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements. | 83% |
| Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning. | 80% |
| Negotiate with customers regarding fees for landscaping, lawn service, or groundskeeping work. | 79% |
| Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides. | 78% |
| Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf. | 78% |
| Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments. | 77% |
| Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects. | 77% |
| Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition. | 76% |
| Perform personnel-related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, or taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur. | 76% |
| Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records. | 76% |
| Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines. | 75% |
| Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports. | 75% |
| Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets. | 74% |
| Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses. | 74% |
| Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units. | 74% |
| Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs. | 74% |
| Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment. | 74% |
| Confer with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement. | 73% |
| Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems. | 73% |
| Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment used to increase crew efficiency. | 73% |
| Answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, or price ranges. | 72% |
| Install or maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as removing snow, pouring cement curbs, or repairing sidewalks. | 72% |
| Design or supervise the installation of sprinkler systems, calculating water pressure, or valve and pipe coverage needs. | 67% |
