Supervisor

Description

Directly supervises and coordinates the activities of crews on the maintenance of grounds for industrial, commercial, or public properties and other installation/enhancement activities by performing the following duties personally or through crew members. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable. Trains employees; plans, assigns and directs work; escalates complaints or issues to management.

Position Duties:

• Drives crew to & from and between worksites where needed.
• Assigns daily tasks to crew.
• Ensures crews compliance with quality and safety standards.
• Trains and evaluates the effectiveness of crew members.
• Monitors proper use of required personal protective equipment on crew.
• Ensures proper use, care and inventory of company vehicles, equipment and tools assigned to/used by assigned crew.
• Communicates crew performance concerns to management with recommendations for corrective action.
• Monitors irrigation systems on properties to ensure adequate, efficient irrigation on site.
• Communicates damage or improvement needs to manager.
• Completes daily paperwork, including time sheets, timely and accurately.
• Facilitates conflict resolution between crew members.
• Works around and operates hand tools and mechanical machinery used for landscape maintenance.
• Cuts lawns.
• Trims and edges around walks, flower beds, and walls.
• Prunes shrubs and trees to shape and improve growth or remove damaged leaves, branches, or twigs.
• Sprays lawn, shrubs, and trees with fertilizer, herbicides, and insecticides.
• Rakes and bags leaves.
• Cleans grounds and removes litter.
• Prepares and grades terrain.
• Seeds and sods lawns.
• Installs and/or moves and transplants trees, shrubs, and other plant material on current maintenance and enhancement jobs and properties.
• Digs trenches for irrigation systems or piping and supports irrigation technician or manager in the installation of the irrigation systems.
• Removes tree brush after tree trimmer’s prune, cut and shape trees.
• Plants grass, flowers, trees, and shrubs.
• Waters lawn and shrubs.
• Cleans out drainage ditches and culverts.
• Sharpens tools such as weed cutters, edging tools, and shears.
• Makes minor repairs on equipment such as lawn mower, spreader, and snow removal equipment.
• Depending on geographic seasonality, may be required to shovel snow from walks and driveways and spread salt on public passage ways to prevent ice buildup.
• Trims and removes trees from client properties.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

ExperienceRequired
2 years: Landscaping