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Groundsperson (Resort)

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Participate in environmentally sustainable work practices
Organise and complete daily work activities
Source and use information on the holiday park and resort industry
Provide service to customers
Show social and cultural sensitivity
Participate in safe work practices
Identify hazards, assess and control safety risks
Install irrigation systems
Troubleshoot irrigation systems
Set out site for construction works
Construct landscape features using concrete
Prune shrubs and small trees
Plan and maintain plant displays
Use hand tools
Use power tools/hand held operations
Operate small plant and equipment
Maintain property and structures
Test pool water quality
Carry out vehicle servicing and maintenance

Horticulture Team Leader

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Maintain work health and safety processes
Develop a soil health and plant nutrition program
Supervise landscape project works
Plan a propagation program
Plan a plant establishment program
Implement a pest management program
Sample soils and interpret results
Supervise natural area restoration works
Supervise irrigation system installation
Supervise work routines and staff performance
Support the recruitment, selection and induction staff
Source goods/services and evaluate contractors

Production Nursery Tradesperson

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Apply biosecurity measures
Prepare and apply chemicals
Transport and store chemicals
Troubleshoot irrigation systems
Maintain nursery plants
Implement a propagation plan
Implement a plant nutrition program
Provide information on plants and their culture
Control weeds
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
Sample soils and interpret results
Receive and dispatch nursery products
Prepare growing media
Prepare specialised plants

Retail Nursery Tradesperson

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Maintain nursery plants
Receive and dispatch nursery products
Install and maintain plant displays
Provide information on plants and their culture
Identify plant specimens
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Engage the customer
Coordinate visual merchandising activities
Process customer complaints
Sell products and services
Recommend products and services
Build relationships with customers
Control stock
Deliver and promote sales of plants

Horticulture Assistant

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Participate in work health and safety processes
Recognise plants
Treat weeds
Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
Plant trees and shrubs
Assist with landscape construction work
Install aggregate paths
Lay paving
Perform pruning operations
Apply chemicals under supervision
Assist with low volume irrigation operations
Operate basic machinery and equipment
Transplant small trees
Participate in workplace communications

Sports Turf Tradesperson

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
Transport and store chemicals
Install drainage systems
Install pressurised irrigation systems
Operate pressurised irrigation systems
Maintain pressurised irrigation systems
Operate machinery and equipment
Implement a plant nutrition program
Control weeds
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas
Construct turf playing surfaces
Establish turf
Prepare sports turf surfaces for play
Monitor turf health
Renovate sports turf
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Apply environmentally sustainable work practices
Communicate effectively with clients and team members
Coordinate machinery and equipment maintenance and repair
Operate land-forming machinery and equipment
Sample soils and interpret results
Coordinate work site activities

Arboriculture Worker

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Work safely in the construction industry
Perform ground based rigging
Tie, dress, set and finish arborist knots
Recognise trees
Assist with aerial rescue from the ground
Provide first aid
Work effectively in the arboriculture industry
Perform pruning operations
Maintain chainsaws
Trim and cut felled trees OR
Operate a pole saw
Fall trees manually (basic)
Operate a mobile chipper/mulcher
Shift materials safely using manual handling methods
Working safely near live electrical apparatus as a non-electrical worker
Apply a range of treatments to trees
Apply chemicals under supervision
Operate and maintain stump grinding machines
Inspect and clean machinery for plant, animal and soil material
Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
Install tree protection devices

Floriculture Tradesperson

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Contribute to work health and safety processes
Implement a plant nutrition program
Prepare growing media
Maintain nursery plants
Receive and dispatch nursery products
Fumigate soil
Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
Transport and store chemicals
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Identify and report unusual disease or plant pest signs
Measure irrigation delivery system performance
Troubleshoot irrigation systems
Establish horticultural crops
Carry out a crop regulation program
Coordinate horticultural crop harvesting

Park and Gardens Assistant

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Apply chemicals under supervision
Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
Operate basic machinery and equipment
Plant trees and shrubs
Treat weeds
Recognise plants
Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
Support turf establishment
Participate in work health and safety processes
Assist with landscape construction work
Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
Prune shrubs and small trees
Assist with low volume irrigation operations
Conduct visual inspection of park facilities

Track Maintainer

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Participate in workplace communications
Maintain workplace safety
Provide first aid
Comply with racing industry ethics and integrity
Transport and store chemicals
Prepare and apply chemicals to control pest, weeds and diseases
Control weeds
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Sample soils and interpret results
Monitor turf health
Renovate sports turf
Develop a sports maintenance program
Monitor weather conditions
Coordinate worksite activities
Supervise preparation of track and facilities for race meetings
Relate animal welfare to track and environmental conditions
Follow site quarantine procedures
Manage conflict at work

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