Profession Head groundsman

First line supervisors landscaping, lawn service or groundskeeping workers plan, organise, direct or coordinate activities of workers engaged in landscaping or groundskeeping activities.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Realistic
• Realistic / Enterprising
• Realistic / Conventional

Tasks head groundsman

• Interpret plans and drawings.
• Confer with clients, contractors, other supervisors or other relevant parties to plan and coordinate work activities.
• Schedule work for crews, e.g. depending on work priorities, crew and equipment availability, and weather conditions.
• Direct and supervise activities of workers who perform duties such as landscaping, cultivating lawns or planting and maintaining vegetation.
• Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary.
• Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions and schedules are followed, quality is maintained and deadlines are met.
• Inspect completed work to ensure conformity to specifications, standards and contract requirements.
• Train workers, e.g. in tasks such as transplanting and pruning trees and shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, and caring for turf.
• Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
• Take inventory of tool, equipment and materials supplies to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
• Suggest changes in work procedures when necessary.

Related professions horticulture, gardening

• First line supervisor horticultural nursery gardeners
• Floral arranger
• Flower binder
• Garden architect
• Garden helper
• Gardener (cemetery)
• Gardener (public parks)
• Gardener, all other
• Greenkeeper sports grounds
• Groundsman
• Horticultural grower
• Horticultural technician
• Horticultural worker
• Landscape architect

Source: Sisyphus ODB