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Job Corps course title: Landscape Maintenance. Students in this class learn landscape design, construction and maintenance, sprinkler system design and installation and maintenance, plant identification, and greenhouse operations through classroom instruction and practical experience.
On the job, landscapers or groundskeepers landscape and maintain the grounds of property by using hand or power tools or equipment. They may work in nursery facilities or at customer locations. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, and sprinkler installation. Workers may help brick and stone masons.
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Groundskeepers do medium to heavy work outdoors and in climate-controlled greenhouses or work sheds. Physical agility and strength are needed to crouch, squat, and stoop while cultivating, tending, and lifting plants, and while carrying equipment and materials for various distances. The strength and stamina needed is different from job to job, but most workers should be able to work outdoors in all kinds of weather and keep up a steady work pace all day. Back to Top PRE-REQUISITES: To enroll in this San Jose Job Corps Course: 493 TABE Math/Reading score OR GED/HS diploma.
Job specific skills: Employers usually require that the job applicant be in excellent physical condition, be able to do heavy work, and be able to follow directions. For some jobs, employers may require Gardener/Groundskeeper experience, some mechanical background, the ability to read and write, and a valid driver's license.
With experience and more training, Gardeners and Groundskeepers can promote to supervisor, landscape manager, or contractor/owner of a private landscaping business.
In Santa Clara County the growth is projected to be average, but this occupation in the county is large, with more than 7,000 positions.
Santa Clara County
Entry Level/No Experience |
Median
$7.50 |
Low
$7.00 |
High
$8.50 |
To enroll in this San Jose Job Corps Course: 493 TABE Math/Reading score OR GED/HS diploma. Job specific skills: Employers usually require that the job applicant be in excellent physical condition, be able to do heavy work, and be able to follow directions. For some jobs, employers may require Gardener/Groundskeeper experience, some mechanical background, the ability to read and write, and a valid driver's license.
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