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First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers
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.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.Mostly human for now
- 02Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.Mostly human for now
- 04Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.People already use AI for this at work
- 05Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.Mostly human for now
- 06Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.Mostly human for now
- 07Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.Mostly human for now
- 08Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.Mostly human for now
- 09Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.Mostly human for now
- 10Prepare service estimates based on labor, material, and machine costs and maintain budgets for individual projects.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss11%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
36%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 36% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 60% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
- Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.
- Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.