First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, & Groundskeeping Workers

Also Called:

Golf Course Superintendent,

Grounds Manager,

Grounds Supervisor,

Landscape Supervisor

What they do: 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.

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Career Cluster

What do they typically do on the job?

  • Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
  • Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
  • Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.

Personality

People interested in this work like activities that include leading, making decisions, and business.

Leadership Orientation

Dependability

Cooperation

Attention to Detail

Perseverance

Self-Control

Interests

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Abilities

Whether you have received formal training or not, these types of abilities are helpful in this career.

Verbal

  • Listen and understand what people say

  • Communicate by speaking

Ideas and Logic

  • Notice when problems happen

  • Make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information

Attention

  • Do two or more things at the same time

  • Pay attention to something without being distracted

Hand and Finger Use

  • Keep your arm or hand steady

Skills

People who want to pursue this career have skills in these areas.

Basic Skills

  • Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements

  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions

Resource Management

  • Managing your time and the time of other people

  • Selecting and managing the best workers for a job

Social

  • Changing what is done based on other people's actions

  • Teaching people how to do something

Does this sound like something you'd like to do?

1. Do some research

  • Identify how your interests, values, and strengths match this occupation
  • Talk to someone who works in this field or spend a day job shadowing
  • Use the colleges and training directory to explore programs related to this career

2. Plan your next move

  • Talk to your college and career counselor or school admissions staff
  • Visit Idaho Launch
  • Search for available First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, & Groundskeeping Workers jobs on Idaho Works

Data for NSI career cards comes from the following: Idaho Department of Labor, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, O*NET, MyNextMove, and Career OneStop