Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors decide whether to keep reading by the equipment and skills block near the top; if mowers, trimmers, and irrigation experience aren't listed plainly by then, the resume goes in the no pile.
This resume fits a Landscape Laborer who is still building hours on mowing crews, planting jobs, and cleanup routes. It has to prove reliable attendance, safe tool handling, and steady output on properties that crew leads run.
This resume fits a Crew Leader who runs a small team through daily route sheets and client walk throughs. It has to prove you can pace the crew, hold quality on each property, and log work.
This resume fits a Landscape Foreman or Supervisor who owns several crews, client accounts, and seasonal schedules at once. It has to prove you can bid work, coach crew leaders, and keep labor hours in line with the contract.
Marcus Delaney
Raleigh, NC | (919) 555-0184 | [email protected] | linkedin.com/in/marcusdelaney
Landscape crew leader with seven seasons across commercial maintenance, residential installs, and light hardscape support. Run a four-person crew on a 38-property weekly route, handle client walkthroughs, and keep production numbers moving through peak summer. Bilingual English/Spanish and comfortable training new hires from day one on the trailer.
Crew Leader
Greenmark Grounds Services | Raleigh, NC | 2021-Present
Assistant Crew Leader
Greenmark Grounds Services | Raleigh, NC | 2021
Landscape Laborer
Piedmont Lawn & Turf | Cary, NC | 2018-2021
Install Helper (Seasonal)
Piedmont Lawn & Turf | Cary, NC | Spring 2019 & 2020
Groundskeeping Assistant
Wake Central High School Athletics | Raleigh, NC | 2016-2017
Your profile belongs at the top of page one. Name the years you have worked on grounds crews and the settings you have covered. Common settings are residential yards, commercial campuses, homeowner association properties, golf courses, parks and municipal right-of-ways.
State the crew size you work in and whether you run the mower, the trimmer or the truck. Add the season length you work, since a nine-month contract reads differently than year-round. Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors skim this block first to see if your route history matches their book of accounts.
Two or three plain lines beat one dense paragraph. Save equipment lists for the skills block below.
Landscape work is measured in ground covered, not in dollars closed. Skip the acreage, stop count, or crew size and a bullet reads like a task, not proof of the ground you covered. Strong bullets name properties per route, acreage mowed per week or crew size you led.
You can also cite yards of mulch laid in a season, trees pruned per month or irrigation zones serviced. Round to honest figures a foreman would recognize. If you ran the schedule for a two-truck crew, say so.
If you cut a 40-stop residential route on Tuesdays and Fridays, say that. Volume language works when hard numbers are not tracked. Phrases like high-volume commercial route or full-service association contract still tell a reader the load you carried.
Wall-of-jargon bullets get skipped. Sort your tasks into three or four buckets the trade already uses. Mowing and turf care is one bucket: mowing, edging, string trimming, aeration and overseeding.
Planting and bed work is another: mulch, annual rotations, shrub install and hand weeding. Pruning and tree care covers hedge shaping, small-limb pruning and storm cleanup. Hardscape and irrigation covers paver repair, drainage, sprinkler head swaps and controller checks.
Snow and ice, if you plow, deserves its own line in northern markets. Put the bucket you do most first. Under each, list the equipment you actually run, such as zero-turn mowers, stand-on mowers, backpack blowers, chainsaws and skid steers.
Match the vocabulary on the job posting you are answering.
A page-one credentials block earns its space on a landscape resume. List a valid state driver license and note a clean driving record if you have one. Add a commercial driver license class and endorsements when you hold them, since towing a trailer or driving a dump truck often needs one.
Pesticide applicator status varies by state and by the chemicals you handle, so name the state and the category you are cleared for. Add flagger, forklift or skid steer cards if you carry them. Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors need this visible early because it decides which truck you can be assigned to on Monday.
Bilingual English and Spanish belongs here too. Bury these details on page two and they get missed.
The closing section is where entry and mid-career crews round out the picture. List your highest schooling, a high school diploma or equivalent, and any trade coursework in horticulture, turf management or arboriculture. Add short courses from equipment dealers, such as a Stihl chainsaw safety class or a mower operator clinic.
Note any construction site safety course you have sat, since commercial general contractors ask. A one-line physical readiness note helps: comfortable lifting 50 pounds, working in heat and standing a full shift. If you have led a crew of two or three, say so here even without a supervisor title.
Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors read this block to gauge who they can promote once a route opens up.
Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors scan dozens of landscape worker resumes a week during spring hiring. The ones they shortlist name the equipment run and the property types worked. Hard skills carry the first read, since a crew lead needs to know you can run a mower or a trimmer on day one.
Soft skills like teamwork and reliability decide the second read, once your equipment list clears the bar. A resume that lists mower operation but no proof of showing up on time reads thin. Match the hard skills table against the exact tools and tasks in your target job posting.
Mirror the wording the posting uses, since the tracking system matches on the phrase. Treat the soft skills table as a checklist for your bullet points, not a block to paste in. Each soft skill you claim should have a bullet under a past job that shows it in action.
Cut any skill you cannot back with a concrete example.
| Soft Skills | AI-estimated % |
|---|---|
| Physical stamina | 67% |
| Attention to detail | 66% |
| Team coordination | 50% |
| Time management | 35% |
| Client communication | 28% |
And here are the top hard skills showing up most often.
| Hard Skills | AI-estimated % |
|---|---|
| Lawn care maintenance | 65% |
| Plant pruning techniques | 55% |
| Fertilizer application | 44% |
| Powered equipment operation | 38% |
| Landscape design implementation | 28% |
Skill names and rankings come from an AI model grounded in U.S. Department of Labor occupation data for landscape workers, not from a count of landscape workers’ resumes built on ResumeTemplates.com.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish a wage code for Landscape Worker specifically. The numbers below are a proxy: the closest published match is Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers (SOC 37-3011), so use them as an estimate for this role, not an exact figure.
Landscape Worker is one of the larger occupations in BLS, which means the median pulls in a long tail of entry-tier and seasonal variants. The 90th percentile sits well above the middle of the field, and the bottom tier trails the median by a smaller gap. That shape rewards workers who can point to year-round crew work, equipment range, and named job sites.
To position above the median, lead the resume with the properties and project types you have run, not a list of tools you can operate. Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors read for scope first, then for the hands-on skills that back it up.
| # | State | Median Annual |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | $48,790 |
| 2 | Massachusetts | $48,670 |
| 3 | Alaska | $47,690 |
| 4 | Washington | $46,950 |
| 5 | Minnesota | $46,610 |
| 6 | Vermont | $46,230 |
| 7 | Maine | $45,970 |
| 8 | Hawaii | $45,920 |
| 9 | Colorado | $45,760 |
| 10 | Connecticut | $45,740 |
| # | State | Workers | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 106,180 | $45,560 |
| 2 | Florida | 86,040 | $37,100 |
| 3 | Texas | 63,430 | $36,740 |
| 4 | New York | 47,600 | $44,840 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania | 34,850 | $39,500 |
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Treat cash work the same as any other job on your resume. List the property owner or the crew lead who paid you, the town, and the months you worked.
Add two lines showing the size of the yards you kept and the tools you ran. Landscape crew leads and grounds supervisors care that the work happened, not how the check cleared.
Yes, list your driver's license class and whether it is clean, right under your contact block. Most crews drive a truck and trailer between properties, so the lead needs to know who can move the rig.
If you hold a commercial driver's license, name the class and any air brake endorsement on the same line.
Name the season on the job line so the gap reads as normal, not as missing months. Write the dates as "April to November" for each year rather than one long span that hides the break.
If you ran a plow, salted lots, or hung holiday lights over the winter, list that as its own short job.
No, a pesticide license is not required to get hired on a general landscape crew. The license sits with the applicator on the truck, and most crew members mow, edge, mulch, and plant without touching chemicals.
If you do hold a state applicator card, list the state and the category, since it lets the lead send you on spray routes.
Name the machines you have run for a full season, by class rather than by brand. Walk-behind and stand-on mowers, stick and backpack blowers, string trimmers, and hedge shears cover most residential routes.
If you have run a skid steer, a stump grinder, or an aerator, give each its own short line so the crew lead sees the reach.
Split the bullet points under each job into a mow-and-maintain group and a hardscape group. Under hardscape, name the paver patios, retaining walls, or drainage lines you helped install, and give a square footage where you have one.
Grounds supervisors read that split as a sign you can move off the mower when the crew needs a hand.
Yes, most crews hire green helpers every spring and train them on the mower and the trimmer. On the resume, lead with the outdoor work you have done, whether that is farm work, moving, roofing, or keeping up your own family's yard.
Add a short line saying you are able to lift 50 pounds and work a full day in summer heat.
For a landscape worker, an ATS-friendly template is the safest pick, because it puts your certifications and experience where a hiring manager scans first. A basic template is a solid alternative. Whichever you choose, keep the formatting clean and easy to parse: clear section headings, a standard font, and no graphics a parser can choke on.
Executive Resume Writer and Career Coach
Andrew Stoner is an executive career coach and resume writer with 17 years of experience as a hiring manager and operations leader at two Fortune 500 Financial Services companies, and as the career services director at two major university business schools.
