Landscaper Job Description
Landscaper
provides care and maintenance of the turf area, ornamental trees, shrubs, bedding plants, and flowers.
Landscaper Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective landscaper job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included landscaper job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Under the direction of the Lead Landscaper in the Department of Facilities Services (DFS), perform all aspects of University grounds maintenance for the Landscape Services division to ensure an aesthetically pleasing, safe, and clean University environment
Plants a variety of landscaping materials
Clean landscaped and related areas
Maintain job related grounds keeping equipment
Maintain and clean all outdoor hotel property
Use moderate to heavy equipment to complete duties as assigned, leaf blower, power washer
Walk area of assignment at the beginning of each shift and remove all litter from campus grounds when it is first observed
Advise Lead Landscaper when work load or conditions encountered will cause the assignment to not be completed in the allotted time
Report any irrigation problems observed
Comply, at all times, with all applicable regulatory agency standards, requirements, laws and regulations
Landscaper Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Landscaper
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ATV, FULL, NI
Education for Landscaper
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the landscaper job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as High School and Associate Degree in General Education, Education, Science, Horticulture, Graduate, Associates, Engineering, Construction, Technical, Distance Learning
Skills for Landscaper
Desired skills for landscaper include:
Tree physiology
Turf
Grounds maintenance
Grounds maintenance in addition to a valid drivers license
General maintenance requirements
Local governmental safety requirements
State
Blowers
Trimmers
Job site safety ability to complete a company specific safety orientation
Desired experience for landscaper includes:
Must bring a lunch, you will take it on the site
Landscaper needs work boots
ZERO TURN EXPERIENCE A PLUS
Able to work OT if needed
Ability to work in outside in a cemetery environment
Must be able to climb a stepladder up to 6ft
Landscaper Examples
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Landscaper Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of landscaper. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for landscaper
- Maintain the inventory of tools, equipment and supplies issued, to ensure that all are available and in usable condition when needed
- Perform the mixing and/or application of fertilizers, insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides
- Notify Lead Landscaper and/or the Manager of Landscape Services when appropriate additional skill training is needed to allow you to achieve desired results
- Checks the pool chemicals every day and logs levels
- Ability to perform Landscape/Gardner duties as assigned
- Assist Guests with general questions any other guest concerns
- Implements plans to create and maintain landscape material throughout the resort
- Plants flowers, shrubs, trees, landscaping, and sod
- Maintains a safe working environment for self and co-workers
- Uses walking and riding mowers, carts, push mowers, and a variety of powered and non-powered hand tools to maintain grounds and landscaping
Qualifications for landscaper
- Tree Climbing experience preferred
- Ability to complete routine reports, work orders, and correspondence
- Frequently standing, talking, walking, sitting, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, bending, crawling, reaching, and use repetitive motions
- Occasionally working in extreme cold, heat/sun, temperature change, wetness and humidity
- Must be able to sit, stand, or walk for long periods of time, often lift and carry 50 pounds
- Reports problems encountered on site to supervisor immediately
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of landscaper. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for landscaper
- Paints and maintains buildings
- Maintains roads, building egress pathways, sidewalks, and parking lots during inclement weather to ensure continued facility operations
- Completes documentation essential for the Engineering and Operations work order system and preventative maintenance program
- Uses controlled insecticides and weed killers
- Performs sprinkler system and fountain maintenance
- Follows all safety and productivity procedures and protocols
- Project cleanup and debris removal
- Furniture removal and replacement
- Special event setup and take down
- Support our construction trades members
Qualifications for landscaper
- Valid drivers license and clean drivers record record preferred
- Trench digging
- Small power tools
- Range of stone
- Hardscape
- Three (3) years of lawn maintenance experience
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Landscaper Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of landscaper. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for landscaper
- Willing to learn and develop skill set for future job opportunities
- Ensure that all activities are performed in a safe manner and are in compliance with University and regulatory standards, procedures, codes, laws, and regulations
- Coordinate with Lead Landscaper and other supervisors to develop plans and schedules for landscaping maintenance and improvement
- Performs grounds keeping and building maintenance duties
- Mows lawns
- Landscape duties include planting flowers, grasses and bushes
- Application of fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides
- Knowledge of irrigation sprinkler systems
- Keeping walkways and desert landscaping free of trash and debris
- Knowledge and past experience of landscaping equipment
Qualifications for landscaper
- Must have reliable transportation, facility is not bus accessible
- Must have work boots
- Valid driver’s license with fewer than 12 points on Motor Vehicle Record
- Perform minor repairs and maintenance on landscape equipment
- Raking, mulching and pruning of landscape areas
- Trimming of trees and palms
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Landscaper Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of landscaper. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for landscaper
- Mark design boundaries and paint natural or artificial turf fields with team logos or names before events
- Apply pesticides to remove harmful insects such as mosquitos, wasps, and ticks
- Conduct general maintenance duties such as cleaning walkways, fixing fountains, and other duties
- Apply fertilizer to help enhance growth
- Take out weeds and dead plants
- Trim overgrown limbs, hedges, and leaves
- Uphold the landscaping design and ensure plant growth
- Plant new decorative bushes, flowers, plants, and shrubs
- Supervise maintenance repairs to equipment, landscape structures, outdoor furniture, and walkways
- Advise clients on how to look after the landscape
Qualifications for landscaper
- Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in either written or oral form
- Ensure appropriate inventory systems already in place for tools, records, material safety data sheets, cleaning supplies and other materials are kept up through individual action
- Follow directions as issued that apply to the routine inspection and maintained action on interior and exterior weeding, mulching, planting, edging, fertilizing, watering, sweeping of sidewalks and curbs, gathering of trash, the operations of compactors, and the use of carts and tools for work
- Perform the job in accordance with all applicable standards, policies and regulatory guidelines ( OSHA) to promote a safe working environment
- High school diploma or GED, but technical school certifications or training preferred as it relates to plantings, trees
- Ability to properly and safely operate all hand tools and power equipment used in ground maintenance activities
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of landscaper. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for landscaper
- Responsible for mowing, weed eating, mulching and planting
- Will assist with cleaning up debris
- Keep park grounds clean
- Ability to work outdoors in various weather
- Trim bushes and trees
- Mowing and manicuring grounds
- Plant flowers, shrubs, bushes and grasses required
- Rake and mulch grounds as needed
- Landscaping and mowing
- Show up to work daily, prepared and attentative
Qualifications for landscaper
- Ability to work in a variety of outside conditions for long periods of time
- Ability to assume a variety of bodily positions and postures possibly for long periods of time to include sitting, standing, bending, reaching, leaning, pushing, pulling, grasping, turning, twisting, lifting and walking
- Must be able to carry up to 50 pounds
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience in a landscaping or groundskeeping role
- Strong knowledge of pest management and basic lawn maintenance
- Good stamina and physical health