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Automation Squad

Role

AI for Landscaping Supervisors

Robert MacKelfresh

By Robert MacKelfresh

Founder, Automation Squad

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.

First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers · O*NET 37-1012.00 · Job Zone 3 · sourced from the U.S. Department of Labor occupation database

Automation coverage

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AI you can use for this job

14 matched to the tools first-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers use. Showing 14.

The tools this job actually uses

8 documented for this occupation. Showing 8, hot technologies first. A filled dot means an AI solution exists for it.

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  • Payroll software
  • Work order software

What this job involves

29 documented tasks, most important first. Showing 24.

  1. Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
  2. Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
  3. Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
  4. Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
  5. Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
  6. Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
  7. Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
  8. Negotiate with customers regarding fees for landscaping, lawn service, or groundskeeping work.
  9. Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
  10. Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
  11. Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.
  12. Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.
  13. Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
  14. Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.
  15. Perform personnel-related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, or taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur.
  16. Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
  17. Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.
  18. Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses.
  19. Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets.
  20. Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.
  21. Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.
  22. Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs.
  23. Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.
  24. Confer with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement.
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