Job Family: 37-0000 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance

Job Family: 37-0000 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance Occupational Group: 37-3010 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance

OCCUPATION PROFILE

JOB FAMILY: BUILDING & GROUNDS CLEANING/MAINTENANCE

OCCUPATIONAL GROUP: BUILDING & GROUNDS CLEANING/MAINTENANCE

OCCUPATION: LANDSCAPING AND GROUNDSKEEPING WORKERS 37-3011

BROADBAND LEVELS: Level 1– Pay Band 001 Level 4– Pay Band 005

DESCRIPTION

This is work landscaping or maintaining grounds or 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.

EXAMPLES OF WORK

Mows lawns, using power mower.

Trims and picks flowers and cleans flower beds.

Digs holes for plants, mixes fertilizer or lime with dirt in holes, inserts plants, and fills holes with dirt.

Hauls or spreads topsoil, and spreads straw over seeded soil to hold soil in place.

Waters lawns, trees, and plants, using portable sprinkler system, hose, or watering can.

Decorates garden with stones and plants.

Applies herbicides, fungicides, fertilizers, and pesticides, using spreaders or spray equipment.

Attaches wires from planted trees to support stakes.

Seeds and fertilizes lawns.

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Maintains tools and equipment.

Builds forms and mixes and pours cement to form garden borders.

Shovels snow from walks and driveways.

EXAMPLES OF JOB CHARACTERISTICS

Performing General Physical Activities Performing physical activities that require moving one's whole body, such as in climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, where the activities often also require considerable use of the arms and legs, such as in the physical handling of materials. Handling and Moving Objects Using one's own hands and arms in handling, installing, forming, positioning, and moving materials, or in manipulating things, including the use of keyboards. Operating Vehicles or Equipment Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft. Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc. Conducting or carrying out work procedures and activities in accord with one's own ideas or information provided through directions/instructions for purposes of installing, modifying, preparing, delivering, constructing, integrating, finishing, or completing programs, systems, structures, or products. Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Fixing, servicing, aligning, setting up, Equipment adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles.

EXAMPLES OF KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Equipment Maintenance Performing routine maintenance and determining when and what kind of maintenance is needed

Mechanical Knowledge of machines and tools, including

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their designs, uses, benefits, repair, and maintenance

Chemistry Knowledge of the composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods

LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION OR REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS

EFFECTIVE: 03/17/2003 History: 07/01/2002