Will AI replace First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers?
AI reaches some of this job’s work, but most of it stays with people.
24/100
Moderate exposure
More exposed to AI than 39% of US workers.
- AI already used in
- 7% of the work
- As AI tools mature: up to
- 40% of the work
What the job involves
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.
Where AI reaches the work
The job’s main tasks, heaviest first, by how far AI reaches them.
Already happening(2)
- Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.
- Answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, or price ranges.
Within reach(11)
- Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.
- Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.
- Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment used to increase crew efficiency.
- Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.
- Confer with managers or landscape architects to develop plans or schedules for landscaping maintenance or improvement.
and 6 more
Out of reach(15)
- Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.
- Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.
- Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.
- Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.
- Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.
and 10 more
Also called
Golf Course Superintendent · Landscape Manager · Landscape Supervisor · Grounds Superintendent · Landscape Foreman · Tree Trimming Supervisor · Grounds Crew Supervisor · Grounds Foreman
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What these numbers mean
The score is the share of this job’s work, weighted by how important and frequent each task is, that AI could do in half the time: tasks an AI model could do alone count in full, tasks that need software built on AI count half.
“AI already used” is the share of the work in tasks where people are recorded using AI today. “As AI tools mature” counts every task AI could halve, with or without extra software.
The percentile compares the score with every job’s, weighted by how many people in the US do each one. Exposure means AI could change how the work is done, not that the job goes away. These are estimates for the typical job, not predictions.
Sources
- O*NET 31.0 Database, U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration
- GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs (task labels), Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin & Rock (2023), OpenAI and University of Pennsylvania
- Anthropic Economic Index: labor market impacts (task penetration), Anthropic
- Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025 (national and metropolitan areas), U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics