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Facilities & Grounds · Updated Aug 2026

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.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
AI Exposure
57/100
Moderate

How much of this occupation’s work can be materially affected by current AI systems.

Replacement Risk
39/100
Low

How likely exposure is to translate into reduced human demand.

Includes provisional estimates for AI adoption pressure and labour-market resilience. How this is measured

Evidence quality
Confidence83/100
Task coverage87%

Confidence reflects task coverage, mapping and capability-evidence quality, and how much of the score rests on provisional inputs.

Task-level evidence

What is driving the score?

Occupation scores are built from the task mix—not a single prediction about a job title.

JVS 2.0.0-phase4b
TaskImportanceAI impactExposure
Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.High
68
Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.High
64
Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.High
68
Plant or maintain vegetation through activities such as mulching, fertilizing, watering, mowing, or pruning.High
66
Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.Medium
68
Review contracts or work assignments to determine service, machine, or workforce requirements for jobs.Medium
67
Prepare or maintain required records, such as work activity or personnel reports.Medium
67
Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.Medium
68
Perform administrative duties, such as authorizing leaves or processing time sheets.Medium
68
Maintain required records, such as personnel information or project records.Medium
68
Direct or perform mixing or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, or fungicides.Medium
68
Tour grounds, such as parks, botanical gardens, cemeteries, or golf courses, to inspect conditions of plants and soil.High
49
Recommend changes in working conditions or equipment used to increase crew efficiency.Medium
66
Train workers in tasks such as transplanting or pruning trees or shrubs, finishing cement, using equipment, or caring for turf.Medium
65
Order the performance of corrective work when problems occur and recommend procedural changes to avoid such problems.Medium
66
Inventory supplies of tools, equipment, or materials to ensure that sufficient supplies are available and items are in usable condition.Medium
62
Confer with other supervisors to coordinate work activities with those of other departments or units.Medium
65
Negotiate with customers regarding fees for landscaping, lawn service, or groundskeeping work.Medium
51
Inspect completed work to ensure conformance to specifications, standards, and contract requirements.High
36
Answer inquiries from current or prospective customers regarding methods, materials, or price ranges.Medium
52
Monitor project activities to ensure that instructions are followed, deadlines are met, and schedules are maintained.High
35
Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.Medium
21
Install or maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as removing snow, pouring cement curbs, or repairing sidewalks.Medium
13
Most exposed

Where AI can do more

Routine, digitized, and highly repeatable tasks face the greatest pressure.

  1. Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.68
  2. Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.68
  3. Provide workers with assistance in performing duties as necessary to meet deadlines.68
  4. Identify diseases or pests affecting landscaping and order appropriate treatments.68
Hardest to automate

Where people still matter

These tasks score lowest on automation feasibility—physical presence, judgement, accountability and real-world variability all resist end-to-end automation.

  1. Install or maintain landscaped areas, performing tasks such as removing snow, pouring cement curbs, or repairing sidewalks.01
  2. Direct or assist workers engaged in the maintenance or repair of equipment, such as power tools or motorized equipment.02
  3. Direct activities of workers who perform duties, such as landscaping, cultivating lawns, or pruning trees and shrubs.03
  4. Schedule work for crews, depending on work priorities, crew or equipment availability, or weather conditions.04
  5. Establish and enforce operating procedures and work standards that will ensure adequate performance and personnel safety.05
Where else this work leads

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AI risk 42

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Beyond AI capability

Adoption and labour-market outlook

Structural factors are kept separate from raw capability so you can see what actually resists automation. Adoption pressure and labour-market resilience are still provisional models—25% of this occupation’s replacement-risk weight rests on them.

Human dependency82
Physical dependency74
Adoption pressure50
Labour-market resilience76
Methodology & sources

O*NET 30.3 occupational data interpreted through the JobsVsAI capability, automation and structural-constraint models.

Confidence83/100
CalculatedAug 21, 2026
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