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US
Company size
11-50 employees
Job sector
Architecture & Construction
occupation category
First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers
Job type
Contract
Work environment
In person
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- Manages conflicts and adopts appropriate methods of conflict avoidance and resolution
- Ensures proper labor relations and conditions of employment are maintained
- Evaluates and verifies employee performance through the review of completed work assignments and work techniques
- Maintains relationships, agreements, qualifications, management, and with suppliers, supply chain management, purchasing documentation, traceability, and approvals
- Maintains a safe, clean, contamination-free and clutter-free environment, as appropriate
- Manages and handles hazardous waste according to federal, state and local regulations
- Follows instructions, warnings, terms, symbols, and other information commonly appearing on pesticide labels
- Understands and applies principles of soil pedology, physics, science, chemistry, biology and mineralogy. Identifies appropriate soil management strategies including cultivations, drainage, irrigation, assessment of potential soil structure degradation, land reclamation, land restoration and the prevention of soil erosion and damage
- Presents information in a culturally appropriate manner
- Implements concepts related to document changes, approvals, and distribution of controlled documents
- Creates and represents proposals for the design, planning or management of landscape projects, including verbal and visual representation, two- and three dimensional and temporal contexts
- Supervises employees including provision of coaching and advice to subordinate supervisors
- Identifies staff development and training needs and ensures that training is obtained
- Plans, structures and prioritizes own work to achieve results
- Uses equipment correctly according to manufacturer’s guidelines
- Maintains provided updates on heavy mobile equipment inspection plans, manuals, and engineering instructions for compliance with current policies and regulations
- Blends an understanding of user requirements, legal and regulatory requirements, horticulture, plants and materials to create and represent proposals for the design of play and/or recreational facilities
- Maintains label integrity, appropriate label information content, inspection of labeling, storage and controlled issuance for use, packaging selection considerations
- Uses digital technology and media to perform tasks, solve problems, communicate, manage information, collaborate and create
- Deals with insurances, contract instructions, variations, practical completion and defects
- Identifies and evaluates habitats in accordance with local, national and international classifications and at a variety of spatial scales. Uses appropriate metrics for habitat evaluation
- Follows inventory control principles and rules for ordering
- Uses appropriate processes, methodologies, tools and techniques to manage projects effectively
- Blends creative and artistic skills with a scientific understanding of horticulture, plants and materials to create and represent proposals for the design of gardens
- Identifies and selects appropriate palettes of materials with consideration of site, context, intended use, structural performance, sustainability characteristics, intended lifespan, maintenance and financial implication
- Recognizes and addresses non-conformances
- Presents design proposals to a range of professional and lay audiences
- Shares information with clients and citizen groups, motivating clients to bring about desired changes, and resolving conflicts within a community on the use of natural resources
- Interprets and maintains equipment modification and technical instructions in a computer database
- Adopts appropriate security measures when holding, using and sharing information and data and understands and applies relevant legal and ethical standards and organizational data management procedures
- Manages time, budget and risk and evaluates projects
- Ensures approach and methods adopted are appropriate to the specific circumstances and considers appropriate mitigation measures
- Adhere to control principles in accordance with the established quality system
- Provides accurate information
- Follows public health regulations and guidelines when using pesticides to control pests
- Performs extensive repairs or applies manufacturer approved modifications on equipment with use of technical manuals, schematics, and special tools
- Ensures employees follow vehicle operation standards including mitigating the effects of speed, acceleration, sharp cornering, height, attachment, grades/ramps and load security
- Delivers high standards of client and customer care
- Complies with relevant health and safety legislation and regulation and organizational policies
- Designs a public realm that provides a connected, inclusive and intuitive user experience and responds to the local character of the area, providing a sense of place
- Creates a positive user experience and maximizes the local benefits that visitors can bring to the environment, economy and community whilst adopting measures to ensure conservation of the natural or urban environment
- Advises on or manages proposals for change which may affect the landscape
- Emphasizes prevention, for example, in explaining to homeowners and grounds managers how to minimize use of pesticides and fertilizers
- Engages effectively with stakeholders and is able to influence others and negotiate to reach agreement and resolve conflicts
- Participates in validation activities, such as equipment (IQ, OQ, PQ), methods, and process
- Assesses and seeks to resolve environmental, economic and social opportunities and constraints and take these into account in addressing a landscape’s potential and capacity to accommodate change
- Contributes to the operational, financial, strategic, people and risk management of practices and organizations providing landscape services
- Maintains inventory of raw materials, parts, components and/or equipment
- Inspects and ensures repairs and manufacturer approved modifications are in compliance with quality control standards and procedures
- Handles interactions with the public and media, using tactful, objective, non-confrontational, culturally sensitive language
- Formulates/interprets project briefs
- Collects samples according to established procedures and applicable sampling plans
- Ensures procedures are followed for formulations and applications of pesticides, solutions, and gases
- Administers projects ensuring the correct contractual procedures and fair, effective administrative practices are followed and that the contract is accurately and completely recorded from inception to completion
- Follows legal labor requirements including applicable Federal and State laws, Administrative Code provisions, Civil Service Commission Rules and Policies, and MOU provisions
- Recognizes unsafe conditions and takes corrective and/or preventative action(s)
- Manages procurement processes and manages contractual arrangements for work with contractors
- Coordinates activities by scheduling work assignments, setting priorities, and directing the work of employees
- Exercises proper document control by completing the appropriate types of records (lab notebooks, batch records, logs, design history files, master records, production records, etc.)
- Manages incoming raw materials handling (quarantine, acceptance or rejection after inspection/ QC testing, storage for use or disposition of rejected material), FIFO (first in first out), inventory, and purchasing
- Contributes to the creation and implementation of user/visitor management plans
- Creates designs that are vibrant, modern and with a distinct local character, that integrate maintenance needs with design needs and ensure that appearance is in keeping with structural and functional design concept
- Adheres to traceability principles within the bio-sciences workplace
- Uses general format and terminology for pesticide labels and labeling
- Promotes quality interventions that integrate with both the function and identity of a landscape and/or place, putting land, water, drainage, energy, community, economy, infrastructure and other such resources to the best possible use
- Uses appropriate ecological techniques and applies seasonal constraints for projects
- Monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot equipment
- Ensures pre-operational equipment check
- Reads and interprets shop repair orders, original equipment manufacturers manuals, blueprints, and recall notifications to verify functionality of equipment
- Prepares formal landscape assessments including (but not limited to) Landscape and Visual Impact Assessments, Landscape Character Assessments, Landscape Sensitivity Assessments and Seascape Character Assessments
- Ensures safe and proper equipment storage
- Responds to audit-related activities and understands types of audits and the audit process
