Groundskeeping Worker Supervisor

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Lead teams to beautify landscapes and ensure safety in diverse outdoor settings.
Enhance community spaces by maintaining parks, gardens, and golf courses.
Balance nature and management, inspecting plant health and soil conditions.

💰 Earn $46K-$78K

📚 High School Diploma or GED

⏱️ 12–24 MONTH TRAINING

📈 3.5% JOB GROWTH

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What You’ll 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.

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.
Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.

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Minimum Education

High School Diploma or GED

Career Prospects

Good (Increasing by 1-5%)

Training Time

1 to 2 years

Job Openings

24,000 Annually

Median Earnings

$59,380 in California

$55,740 Nationally

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Best For You If...

YOU Like 💕

Influencing or leading others
Using data or completing tasks
Working with my hands

You are skilled in 💫

Active Listening
Coordination
Monitoring
Service Orientation
Social Perceptiveness
Speaking

You value 🙏

Having freedom
Job security
Personal relationships

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Groundskeeping Worker Supervisor

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Pathways to this Career

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Bachelor's Degree

A bachelor's degree typically results in increased knowledge about a variety of academic subjects, specialized knowledge in a focused field of study, and is considered the foundational qualification for many careers.

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Associate's Degree

An associate's degree typically provides graduates with foundational knowledge and skills for entry-level jobs in the graduate's industry, or serves as a stepping stone towards further education.

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⏱️ FINISH IN 2-3 years