# Tasks & work activities — horticulture production team leader

Source: O*NET 30.3, occupation 37-1012.00 (First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers).

## Task statements

- **[Core]** Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
- **[Core]** Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
- **[Core]** Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
- **[Core]** Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
- **[Core]** Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
- **[Core]** Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
- **[Core]** Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.
- **[Core]** Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.
- **[Core]** Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
- **[Core]** Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.
- **[Core]** Perform personnel-related activities, such as hiring workers, evaluating staff performance, or taking disciplinary actions when performance problems occur.
- **[Core]** Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.
- **[Core]** Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs.
- **[Core]** Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.
- **[Core]** Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.
- **[Core]** Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.
- **[Core]** Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.
- **[Core]** Investigate work-related complaints to verify problems and to determine responses.
- **[Core]** Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.
- **[Core]** Install or maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as removing snow, pouring cement curbs, or repairing sidewalks.
- **[Core]** Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets.
- **[Core]** Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment used to increase crew efficiency.
- **[Core]** Confer with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement.
- **[Core]** Answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, or price ranges.
- **[Core]** Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.
- **[Core]** Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
- **[Core]** Design or supervise the installation of sprinkler systems, calculating water pressure, or valve and pipe coverage needs.
- **[Supplemental]** Negotiate with customers regarding fees for landscaping, lawn service, or groundskeeping work.

## Detailed work activities

- Assist skilled construction or extraction personnel.
- Confer with coworkers to coordinate maintenance or cleaning activities.
- Determine resource needs.
- Document work hours or activities.
- Establish work standards.
- Estimate maintenance service requirements or costs.
- Evaluate current or prospective maintenance employees.
- Inspect buildings or grounds to determine condition.
- Inspect landscaping to determine treatment needs.
- Inspect work to ensure standards are met.
- Instruct staff in work policies or procedures.
- Inventory materials or equipment.
- Investigate work related complaints to determine corrective actions.
- Irrigate lawns, trees, or plants.
- Plan employee work schedules.
- Plant greenery to improve landscape appearance.
- Prepare chemicals for work application.
- Provide information about landscaping services or costs.
- Recommend organizational process or policy changes.
- Remove snow.
- Supervise maintenance workers.
- Trim trees or other vegetation.