landscape gardener
Code 6113.5
The landscape gardener (jardinero o paisajista) designs and maintains green areas: planting, irrigation, pruning and landscape aesthetics. Use this Job Dictionary profile to green-area trade for condos, companies or municipalities.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- plant disease control
- ecology
- plant species
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- landscaping materials
- horticulture principles
- design principles
- principles of landscape construction
- pest control in plants
- pruning types
- pruning techniques
Skills and competences
- put up signs
- build fences
- perform pest control
- nurse plants
- nurse trees
- grow plants
- execute disease and pest control activities
- handling chemical products for soil and plants
- maintain landscape site
- maintain ground
- operate landscaping equipment
- plant green plants
- prune plants
- prune hedges and trees
- prepare the ground
- prepare planting area
- propagate plants
- perform weed control operations
- transport physical resources within the work area
- use gardening equipment
Transversal competences
- work in outdoor conditions
Download the role profile
We'll send you a profile ready to paste into your job ad: purpose, essential and optional skills, and what to assess. One email, no signup.
What to assess for this role
Assess plant knowledge, tool safety and sustained visual quality.
See psychometric assessmentLo que más nos preguntan
Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a landscape gardener do?
- Installs and maintains gardens, fixes pests/irrigation and executes the landscape plan.
- Gardener vs landscaper?
- Gardener stresses maintenance; landscaper design. This sheet covers both ends of the craft.
- What to assess when hiring?
- Practical work, plant care and punctuality on maintenance routes.
Similar roles
Other roles in the same group, useful when the one you need is not an exact fit.
Need to find this profile?
We source, screen and assess candidates for this kind of role, with a replacement guarantee. Fast process and a flat fee per role, no percentage of the salary.
In Obrii App the profile becomes a job descriptor, a CV screener and an interview scorecard. Try it free for 14 days, no credit card.
Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences