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Summary Job Description | Tasks | |||
Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units. | Operate vehicles and powered equipment, such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chain saws, electric clippers, sod cutters, and pruning saws. | |||
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Mow and edge lawns, using power mowers and edgers. | ||||
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Shovel snow from walks, driveways, and parking lots, and spread salt in those areas. | ||||
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Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing and removing thatch, and trimming and edging around flower beds, walks, and walls. | ||||
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Use hand tools such as shovels, rakes, pruning saws, saws, hedge and brush trimmers, and axes. | ||||
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Prune and trim trees, shrubs, and hedges, using shears, pruners, or chain saws. | ||||
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Gather and remove litter. | ||||
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Maintain and repair tools, equipment, and structures, such as buildings, greenhouses, fences, and benches, using hand and power tools. | ||||
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Mix and spray or spread fertilizers, herbicides, or insecticides onto grass, shrubs, and trees, using hand or automatic sprayers or spreaders. | ||||
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Provide proper upkeep of sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, fountains, planters, burial sites, and other grounds features. | ||||
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Water lawns, trees, and plants, using portable sprinkler systems, hoses, or watering cans. | ||||
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Trim and pick flowers, and clean flower beds. | ||||
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Rake, mulch, and compost leaves. | ||||
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Follow planned landscaping designs to determine where to lay sod, sow grass, or plant flowers and foliage. | ||||
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Plant seeds, bulbs, foliage, flowering plants, grass, ground covers, trees, and shrubs, and apply mulch for protection, using gardening tools. | ||||
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Decorate gardens with stones and plants. | ||||
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Maintain irrigation systems, including winterizing the systems and starting them up in spring. | ||||
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Care for natural turf fields, making sure the underlying soil has the required composition to allow proper drainage and to support the grasses used on the fields. | ||||
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Use irrigation methods to adjust the amount of water consumption and to prevent waste. | ||||
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Haul or spread topsoil, and spread straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place. | ||||
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Advise customers on plant selection and care. | ||||
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Care for artificial turf fields, periodically removing the turf and replacing cushioning pads, and vacuuming and disinfecting the turf after use to prevent the growth of harmful bacteria. | ||||
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Plan and cultivate lawns and gardens. | ||||
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Attach wires from planted trees to support stakes. | ||||
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Install rock gardens, ponds, decks, drainage systems, irrigation systems, retaining walls, fences, planters, or playground equipment. | ||||
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Mark design boundaries and paint natural and artificial turf fields with team logos and names before events. | ||||
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Build forms and mix and pour cement to form garden borders. | ||||
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CompGeo Salary Survey Benchmark Job Summary and Competencies
Laborers, Landscaping and Groundskeeping
The Benchmark Job Description below represents the specific Position Characteristics of the job used in the Salary Survey. Benchmark Job Descriptions should be inspected carefully to review the degree of matching between an organizations' Job and the Salary Survey Benchmark. Matching internal Jobs to Salary Survey Benchmark Jobs should not be done on Job Title alone. A thorough comparison of Salary Survey Benchmark to Internal Job Descriptions is recommended. A good overlap should exist on any comparisons used on critical Job Dimensions and Competencies.- Job Description
- Knowledges
- Skills
- Abilites
- Tools and Technology
- Education and Experience
- Alternate Job Titles
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Important Knowledge Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Mechanical | Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance. | |||
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Important Skill Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Operation and Control | Controlling operations of equipment or systems. | |||
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Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. | |||
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Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. | |||
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Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems. | |||
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Operation Monitoring | Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly. | |||
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Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. | |||
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Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. | |||
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Important Ability Competencies | Competency Description | |||
Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. | |||
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Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. | |||
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Control Precision | The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions. | |||
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Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. | |||
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Manual Dexterity | The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. | |||
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Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. | |||
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Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). | |||
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Extent Flexibility | The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs. | |||
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Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. | |||
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Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. | |||
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Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem. | |||
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Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. | |||
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Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. | |||
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Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. | |||
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Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. | |||
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Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. | |||
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Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. | |||
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Finger Dexterity | The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. | |||
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Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). | |||
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Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). | |||
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Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. | |||
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Tools/Technology Example | Product Category | |||
IBM Lotus Notes | Electronic mail software | |||
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Microsoft Windows | Operating system software | |||
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Microsoft Word | Word processing software | |||
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Adjustable wrenches | Adjustable wrenches | |||
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Aerial lift trucks | Hydraulic truck cranes | |||
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Arena rakes | Rakes | |||
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Artificial turf groomers | Rakes | |||
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Axes | Axes | |||
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Backhoes | Backhoes | |||
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Backpack pump sprayers | Hand sprayers | |||
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Box blades | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Brush trimmers | Weeders | |||
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Bucket loaders | Wheel loaders | |||
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Bunker rakes | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Cargo trucks | Cargo trucks | |||
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Chain saws | Power saws | |||
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Concrete mixers | Concrete mixers or plants | |||
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Cultivators | Cultivators | |||
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Digital soil thermometers | Handheld thermometer | |||
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Dirt shovels | Shovels | |||
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Drag brooms | Draglines | |||
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Drag leveling bars | Draglines | |||
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Drag mats | Draglines | |||
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Drag spikers | Draglines | |||
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Drawn box scrapers | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Dump trucks | Dump trucks | |||
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Electric air welders | Welders | |||
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Electrical cord reels | Cable reels | |||
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Extension ladders | Ladders | |||
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Fertilizer spreaders | Fertilizer spreaders or distributors | |||
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Field layout systems | Tape measures | |||
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Field painting stencils | Stencils or lettering aids | |||
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Flail mowers | Lawnmowers | |||
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Flexible chain-link harrows | Harrows | |||
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Forklifts | Forklifts | |||
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Front end loaders | Front end loaders | |||
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Gas generators | Gas generators | |||
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Gas welders | Gas welding or brazing or cutting apparatus | |||
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Greens mowers | Lawnmowers | |||
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Ground picks | Picks | |||
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Ground tarps | Tarpaulins | |||
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Hammer drills | Power drills | |||
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Hammers | Hammers | |||
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Hand files | Files | |||
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Hand spreaders | Fertilizer spreaders or distributors | |||
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Handsaws | Saws | |||
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Hedge shears | Hedge clippers | |||
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Hedge trimmers | Hedge clippers | |||
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Hex pluggers | Soil core sampling apparatus | |||
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Hoes | Hoes | |||
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Hydraulic booms | Hydraulic truck cranes | |||
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Infield grooming rakes | Rakes | |||
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Iron rakes | Rakes | |||
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Knife sharpeners | Grinding wheels | |||
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Ladders | Ladders | |||
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Land levelers | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Land planes | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Landscape rakes | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Leaf blowers | Power blowers | |||
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Leaf-grinding machines | Power chippers | |||
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Loppers | Secateurs or pruning shears | |||
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Manual mowers | Lawnmowers | |||
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Measuring tapes | Tape measures | |||
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Measuring wheels | Measuring wheels for distance | |||
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Mound slope gauges | Levels | |||
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Mulching forks | Garden forks | |||
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Nail drags | Draglines | |||
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Overseed enhancing tools | Seeder attachment | |||
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Paint sprayguns | Paint sprayers | |||
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Pallet trucks | Pallet trucks | |||
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Plow pan spikers | Draglines | |||
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Pole saws | Saws | |||
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Power drills | Power drills | |||
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Power rakes | Graders or land levelers | |||
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Power saws | Power saws | |||
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Power sweepers | Scrubbing machines | |||
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Pressurized sprayers | Sprayers | |||
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Protective ear plugs | Ear plugs | |||
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Pruning saws | Forestry saws | |||
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Puddle pumps | Water pumps | |||
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Push mowers | Lawnmowers | |||
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Rakes | Rakes | |||
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Reversible spike harrows | Harrows | |||
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Riding mowers | Lawnmowers | |||
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Roller squeegees | Squeegees or washers | |||
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Safety gloves | Protective gloves | |||
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Safety goggles | Goggles | |||
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Salt spreaders | Fertilizer spreaders or distributors | |||
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Screwdrivers | Screwdrivers | |||
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Scuffle hoes | Hoes | |||
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Snow blowers | Snow blowers | |||
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Snow shovels | Shovels | |||
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Snowplow attachments | Snowplow attachments | |||
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Socket wrenches | Sockets | |||
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Sod lifters | Shovels | |||
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Soil probes | Soil core sampling apparatus | |||
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Soil profilers | Soil core sampling apparatus | |||
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Soil pulverizers | Cultivators | |||
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Spades | Spades | |||
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Sprinklers | Water sprinklers | |||
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String trimmers | Power trimmers | |||
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Tillers | Cultivators | |||
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Tractor broom attachments | Scrubbing machines | |||
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Tractors | Agricultural tractors | |||
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Trowels | Trowels | |||
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Truck-mounted chemical sprayers | Sprayers | |||
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Turf rollers | Rollers for lawn or sports grounds | |||
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Turf striping rollers | Rollers for lawn or sports grounds | |||
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Turf sweepers | Rakes | |||
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Utility vehicles | All terrain vehicles tracked or wheeled | |||
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Wheeled paint sprayers | Paint sprayers | |||
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Wood chippers | Power chippers | |||
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X-drags | Draglines | |||
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Prerequisite Qualification Category | Education and Experience Level | |||
Required Level of Education | Less than a High School Diploma | |||
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Related Work Experience | None | |||
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On-Site or In-Plant Training | None | |||
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On-the-Job Training | Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year | |||
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Alternate Job Title(s) | |||
Athletic Field Custodian | |||
Athletic Fieldskeeper | |||
Athletic Turf Manager | |||
Backhoe Operator | |||
Bonsai Tender | |||
Brush Cutter | |||
Care Taker | |||
Caretaker | |||
Cemetery Keeper | |||
Cemetery Laborer | |||
Cemetery Sexton | |||
Cemetery Warden | |||
Cemetery Worker | |||
Equipment Operator | |||
Flower Picker | |||
Flower Planter | |||
Gardener | |||
Golf Course Keeper | |||
Golf Course Laborer | |||
Grass Cutter | |||
Grave Cleaner | |||
Greenhouse Worker | |||
Greens Cutter | |||
Greens Keeper | |||
Greens Laborer | |||
Greenskeeper | |||
Greenskeeper Laborer | |||
Greensman | |||
Ground Crewman | |||
Ground Worker | |||
Grounds Caretaker | |||
Grounds Cleaner | |||
Grounds Keeper | |||
Grounds Maintenance Worker | |||
Grounds Person | |||
Grounds Supervisor | |||
Grounds Worker | |||
Grounds/Maintenance Specialist | |||
Groundskeeper | |||
Groundskeeping Maintenance | |||
Groundskeeping Maintenance Worker | |||
Groundskeeping Yardman | |||
Groundsman | |||
Heavy Equipment Operator | |||
Hedge Trimmer | |||
Horticultural Worker | |||
Horticulture Worker | |||
Hydroelectric Plant Maintainer | |||
Indoor Landscaper/Gardener | |||
Industrial-Commercial Groundskeeper | |||
Interior Plant Caretaker | |||
Irrigation Technician | |||
Laborer | |||
Land Clearer | |||
Landscape Gardener | |||
Landscape Laborer | |||
Landscape Management Technician | |||
Landscape Specialist | |||
Landscape Technician | |||
Landscape and Yardwork Laborer | |||
Landscaper | |||
Landscaper Helper | |||
Landscaping Specialist | |||
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Laborer | |||
Lawn Care Worker | |||
Lawn Caretaker | |||
Lawn Maintenance Worker | |||
Lawn Mower | |||
Lawn Mower Operator | |||
Lawn Service Worker | |||
Lawn Sprinkler Installer | |||
Lawn Sprinkler Servicer | |||
Maintenance Aide | |||
Maintenance Groundman | |||
Maintenance Technician | |||
Maintenance Worker | |||
Mall Plant Caretaker | |||
Mower Operator | |||
Mowing Machine Operator | |||
Nursery Helper | |||
Orchid Transplanter | |||
Outside Maintenance Worker | |||
Park Keeper | |||
Plant Care Worker | |||
Sexton | |||
Sexton Helper | |||
Shrub Planter | |||
Sod Cutter | |||
Sod Layer | |||
Sod Stripper | |||
Sodder | |||
Sprinkler Installer | |||
Tree Surgeon Helper | |||
Turfgrass Technician | |||
Utility Worker | |||
Weed Burner | |||
Weed Controller | |||
Weed Cutter | |||
Weed Thinner | |||
Weeder | |||
Yard Laborer | |||
Yard Person | |||
Yard Worker | |||
Yardman | |||
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