Landscape technician vs landscape designer

Differences between landscape technician and landscape designer duties and responsibilities

Landscape technician example responsibilities.

• Manage hardscape installation team and project
• Operate powered equipment such as mowers, tractors, twin-axle vehicles, snow blowers, chain-saws, clippers and pruning saws.
• Handle the tasks of transplanting, pruning, weeding, fertilizing, spraying, constructing and mowing for landscape maintenance.
• Experience with the use of typical yard work equipment including, lawn mowers, leaf blowers, and gas power trimmers.
• Maintain shrubs, flowers and landscape areas with the use of mowers, edgers and other necessary hand and mechanical equipment.
• Target and complete assignments such as mowing and treating various lawns, trimming shrubbery and bushes, sod installation and mulching.
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Landscape designer example responsibilities.

• Develop marketing and brand awareness initiatives through social media outlets; create and manage company Facebook and Houzz profiles.
• Design with ACAD, GIS application with ArcView and ArcPad
• Develop sketch plans for parcels of land being consider for subdivisions.
• Complete many, complex, SketchUp models for city planning commission meetings and presenting to clients.
• Introduce 3D modeling in SketchUp to the company to give clients a better understanding of a space during a proposal.
• Perform duties as trimming, mowing, weed-eating, edging, leaf mulching, aerating, fertilizing, and seeding.
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