Grounds Maintenance Supervisor - 813

Job Purpose: Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in groundskeeping activities.

, such as planting and maintaining ornamental trees, shrubs, flowers, and lawns, and applying fertilizers, pesticides, and other chemicals, according to contract specifications. May also coordinate activities of workers engaged in terracing hillsides, building retaining walls, constructing pathways, installing patios, and similar activities in following a landscape design plan. Work may involve reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and work force requirements; answering inquiries from potential customers regarding methods, material, and price ranges; and preparing estimates according to labor, material, and machine costs.

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.

Knowledge and Skills Required:

• Equipment Selection - Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Management of Personnel Resources - Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job.
• Operation Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

Tools/Technology Required: MUST HAVE VALID DRIVERS LICENSE/CLEAN DRIVING RECORD