Landscaping and Groundskeeping Contractors and Supervisors
Job description
These individuals supervise and coordinate staff who develop and maintain land. They are employed by:
- Landscaping companies
- Grounds and lawn care service companies
- Arboriculture and pruning service companies
- Cemeteries
- Landscaping services for public works
Environment
- Climatic conditions
- Equipment, machinery, tools
Main tasks
- Supervise and coordinate the activities of workers who maintain grounds and other landscaped areas.
- Bid on landscaping and grounds maintenance contracts.
- Organize the planting and maintenance of trees, gardens, lawns, shrubs, and hedges.
- Construct and install fences, decks, walkways, and retaining walls.
- Establish work methods to meet deadlines and coordinate work with other sections.
- Order materials and supplies.
- Resolve work-related problems and recommend measures to increase productivity.
- Manage and train staff.
- Ensure compliance with workplace safety standards.
- Draft reports
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $21.00
- Median
- $27.00
- Maximum
- $40.03
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
2,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 16.5% Female
- 83.5% Male
Not available.
- 16.5% Female
- 83.5% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$50,400
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 55, 5672% of jobs
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NAICS 918% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 11528% of jobs
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NAICS 714% of jobs
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NAICS 231% of jobs
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Others7% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 55, 5672% of jobs
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NAICS 918% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 11528% of jobs
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NAICS 714% of jobs
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NAICS 231% of jobs
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Others7% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in réalisation d'aménagements paysagers
Code : 5320
Placement rate: 46.2%
27.8% of graduates pursue further studies
College
DCS in paysage et commercialisation en horticulture ornementale (Aménagement paysager)
Code : 153CA
Placement rate: 100%
Also required
- Experience in horticulture, technical, or landscaping supervision.
Sometimes required
- Certificate in pesticide application may be required.
- Class 5 driver’s licence often required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Coordination
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Result evaluation
- Oral expression
- Human resource management
- Time management
- Social perception
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Active learning
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Learning strategies
- Written expression
- Operations and control
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Monitoring operations
Abilities
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Awareness of issues
- Speech clarity
- Written comprehension
- Deductive reasoning
- Classification
- Speech recognition
- Near vision
- Written expression
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Hand-arm stability
- Distance vision
- Visualization
- Selective attention
- Limb coordination
- Static muscle power
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Time sharing
Knowledge and attributes
- Leadership
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Knowledge of customer and personalized services
- Capacity to work in a team
- Versatility
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Availability
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Make, build, install
- Self-employment
- Work in contact with nature and animals
- Work outdoors
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Realistic
- People with this profile prefer carrying out concrete tasks and being physically involved in what they do.
- Investigative
- People with this profile prefer relying on theoretical knowledge before acting. They like observation, analysis and problem solving.
Official name of the NOC 82031
Contractors and supervisors, landscaping, grounds maintenance and horticulture services
Job titles
- Park maintenance head
- Landscaping foreman/woman
- Lawn maintenance contractor
- Landscape maintenance contractor
- Horticulture workers supervisor
- Park section head - arboriculture
- Lead grower - cannabis
- Section grower - cannabis
- Nursery worker foreman/woman
- Cemetery foreman/woman
- Weed control foreman/woman
- Groundskeeping foreman/woman
- Landscape design contractor
- Lawn care contractor
- Tree service contractor
- Landscape service contractor
- Interior plantscaping contractor
- Tree removal contractor
- Plantscape maintenance contractor
- Grounds maintenance contractor
- Horticultural contractor
- Park caretaker
- Groundskeeper supervisor
- Park labourers supervisor
- Public works grounds maintenance worker supervisor
- Public works grounds maintenance labourer supervisor
- Landscaping supervisor
- Grounds maintenance park supervisor
- Lawn care supervisor
- Groundskeeping supervisor
- Groundskeeping supervisor - cemetery
- Country club grounds supervisor
- Grounds maintenance supervisor
- Tree service supervisor
Skill type
Natural resources, agriculture and related production
Related occupations
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- Nursery and greenhouse labourers
Last update: January 29, 2026
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