Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in groundskeeping activities such as planting and maintaining trees, shrubs, flowers, and lawns, and applying fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals, according to contract specifications.
Essential Duties and/or Responsibilities:- Enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
- Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
- Direct activities of workers who perform duties such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
- Schedule work for crews depending on work priorities, crew and equipment availability, and weather conditions.
- Plant and maintain vegetation.
- Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
- Train workers in tasks such as pruning trees and shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, and caring for turf.
- Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
- Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, and materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available, and items are in usable condition.
- Perform personnel-related activities such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, and taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur.
- Direct or perform mixing and application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides.
- Work with managers on assignments to determine service, machine, and workforce requirements for jobs.
- Help corporate office maintain required records such as personnel information and project records.
- Install and maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as removing snow, pouring cement curbs, and repairing sidewalks.
- Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment use, in order to increase crew efficiency.
- Confer with managers to develop plans and schedules for landscaping maintenance and improvement.
Tools/Technology Required:MUST HAVE VALID DRIVERS LICENSE/CLEAN DRIVING RECORD