Use sophisticated climbing and rigging techniques in order to cut away dead or excess branches from trees or shrubs to maintain right of way for roads, sidewalks, or utilities, or to improve appearance, health, and value of trees. They prune or treat trees or shrubs using handsaws, hand pruners, clippers, and power pruners. They may use truck mounted lifts.
Mix or apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides through sprays, dusts, vapors, soil incorporation, or chemical application on trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops. This job usually requires specific training and state or federal certification.
Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Their tasks 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.
Apply or release chemical solutions or toxic gases and set traps to kill or remove pests and vermin that infest buildings and surrounding areas.
Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Their duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.
Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. They perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Their duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in landscaping or groundskeeping activities. Work may involve reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and workforce requirements; answering inquiries from potential customers regarding methods, material, and price ranges; and preparing estimates according to labor, material, and machine costs.
Directly supervise and coordinate work activities of cleaning personnel in hotels, hospitals, offices, and other establishments.
