groundsman/groundswoman
Groundsmen/groundswomen provide landscape and lawn services and maintain grounds for private households, commercial and public facilities, schools, hotels, botanical gardens, golf courses, parks and athletic fields.
Also called: lawn care specialist, grounds staff, lawnsman, groundsman, greenkeeper, groundswoman, landscape worker, groundskeeping worker
- 31
- essential skills
- 18
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 6113
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- countryside officer8 skills in common
- horticulture production manager8 skills in common
- horticulture production team leader8 skills in common
- agronomic crop production team leader7 skills in common
- crop production manager7 skills in common
- fruit production team leader7 skills in common
Essential skills
31- construct greens and grounds
- ecology
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- estimate consumption of water
- execute disease and pest control activities
- handling chemical products for soil and plants
- horticulture principles
- maintain irrigation systems
- maintain landscape site
- maintain turf and grass
- maintain turf management equipment
- monitor water quality
- operate turf management equipment
- perform pest control
- perform weed control operations
- pest control in plants
- plan sports areas
- plant disease control
- plant species
- prepare building site
- prepare site for construction
- prepare sites for planting of grass
- prepare the ground
- principles of landscape construction
- soil structure
- spray pesticides
- transport physical resources within the work area
- turf management
- use gardening equipment
- water chemistry analysis
- watering principles
Optional skills
18- communicate with customers
- crop production principles
- grow plants
- implement plans for the management of sports turf areas
- manage rainwater
- manage time in landscaping
- nurse plants
- nurse trees
- plant green plants
- prepare planting area
- propagate plants
- prune hedges and trees
- prune plants
- pruning techniques
- pruning types
- rainwater management
- report pollution incidents
- use technical documentation
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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