landscaping supervisor

Overview

Languages

English

Education

• Secondary (high) school graduation certificate

Experience

5 years or more

On site

Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.

Work site environment

• Outdoors

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Direct planting of trees, gardens and lawns
• Organize planting of trees, gardens and lawns
• Resolve work problems by providing technical advice to increase the value and functionality of a property
• Plan, manage and supervise landscape construction work
• Resolve work problems, provide technical advice and recommend measures to improve productivity and product quality
• Address customers' complaints or concerns
• Train workers in duties and policies
• Provide on-site services
• Conduct performance reviews
• Build patios, garden walls and other decorative installations
• Water and tend to plants, lawns and/or gardens
• Clean work area
• Apply various treatments such as pruning, spraying, repairing damaged areas and injecting with treatment solutions
• Plant and move trees
• Apply fertilizers, fungicides, herbicides, pesticides and other lawn care products
• Plan and co-ordinate the growth and use of plants for landscaping, ornamental uses and other purposes
• Plant and maintain private and public lawns and gardens
• Assess the health of lawns
• Trim trees to achieve the desired pruning objective such as crown cleaning, thinning, raising, reduction, restoration, espalier pruning, vista pruning
• Plan the incorporation of landscape structures

Experience and specialization

Area of specialization

• Landscape construction

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Valid driver's licence

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Handling heavy loads
• Bending, crouching, kneeling