Landscaper vs groundsman

Differences between landscaper and groundsman duties and responsibilities

Landscaper example responsibilities.

• Manage clients and run all landscape operations including groundskeeping, seasonal cleaning, and pressure washing
• Manage hardscape installation team and project
• Operate powered equipment such as mowers, tractors, snow blowers, chainsaws, sod cutters, pruning saws and edgers.
• Install plants, landscape lighting, and hardscape features (including retaining walls, paving stones and ponds).
• Used various tools to cut grass, prune small trees and shrubbery, paint, and perform other landscaping duties.
• Operate weed-whacker, leaf blower, lawn mower, and use of handsaw, shovels, and clippers as needed.
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Groundsman example responsibilities.

• Used hand saws and hand pruners as well as motorized saws to manage tree cuttings on the ground.
• Use of gas and electric equipment to include mowers, edger's, weed eaters, blowers, hedgers, and saws
• Certify adult cpr and first aid.
• Locate underground utility lines with the use of electronic locators and shovels.
• Use chipper to dispose of brush, use bobcat to load wood into trailer.
• Range from running a chainsaw to roping a limb, to running the bobcat machine.
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