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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Job Family: 37-0000 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance
Occupational Group: 37-3010 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance
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
Handling and Moving Objects
Operating Vehicles or Equipment
Implementing Ideas, Programs, etc.
Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical
Equipment
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.
Using one's own hands and arms in handling,
installing, forming, positioning, and moving
materials, or in manipulating things, including
the use of keyboards.
Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving
vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as
forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or
watercraft.
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.
Fixing, servicing, aligning, setting up,
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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Job Family: 37-0000 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance
Occupational Group: 37-3010 Building & Grounds Cleaning/Maintenance
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:
History:
03/17/2003
07/01/2002
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