Occupation Atlasgroundsman/groundswoman
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a48b9a5a-5ded-482d-8cda-7fd097a32c16
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.
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Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed
Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCARealistic · Conventional · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic7.00
- C Conventional3.35
- A Artistic1.90
- E Enterprising1.81
- I Investigative1.62
- S Social1.45
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers (37-3011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (31)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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 (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
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 31 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
landscape gardener
15 shared · 18 more of its ownmaintain landscape site, prepare the ground, principles of landscape construction, transport physical resources within the work area
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garden labourer
10 shared · 15 more of its ownprepare sites for planting of grass, operate turf management equipment, prepare the ground, maintain turf and grass
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countryside officer
8 shared · 23 more of its ownoperate turf management equipment, perform pest control, perform weed control operations, execute disease and pest control activities
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horticulture production team leader
8 shared · 33 more of its ownwatering principles, horticulture principles, soil structure, execute disease and pest control activities
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horticulture production manager
8 shared · 34 more of its ownwatering principles, horticulture principles, soil structure, execute disease and pest control activities
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crop production manager
7 shared · 23 more of its ownsoil structure, execute disease and pest control activities, plant species, environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
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agronomic crop production team leader
7 shared · 29 more of its ownsoil structure, execute disease and pest control activities, plant species, environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
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fruit production team leader
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