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Groundsperson (Holiday Park)

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
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
Provide general grounds care
Maintain property and structures
Test pool water quality
Carry out vehicle servicing and maintenance

Nursery Sales Assistant

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Care for nursery plants
Maintain indoor plants
Recognise plants
Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
Participate in work health and safety processes
Follow point-of-sale handling procedures
Sell to the retail customer
Apply chemicals under supervision
Pot up plants
Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
Process and maintain workplace information
Use business technology
Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
Work effectively in the industry
Maintain drainage systems

Trainee Groundsperson

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
Operate basic machinery and equipment
Assist in the preparation of turf surfaces for play
Renovate grassed areas
Support turf establishment
Apply chemicals under supervision
Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders

Flower Grower

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Participate in work health and safety processes
Recognise plants
Pot up plants
Care for nursery plants
Plant horticultural crops
Support horticultural crop harvesting
Carry out postharvest operations
Assist with soil or growing media sampling and testing
Undertake propagation activities
Apply chemicals under supervision
Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
Operate tractors
Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
Treat plant pests, diseases and disorders
Collect and record production data

Landscaping Assistant

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Assist with landscape construction work
Construct low-profile timber or modular retaining walls
Install aggregate paths
Lay paving
Operate basic machinery and equipment
Plant trees and shrubs
Recognise plants
Participate in work health and safety processes
Apply chemicals under supervision
Undertake operational maintenance of machinery
Assist with pressurised irrigation operations
Assist with low volume irrigation operations
Install tree protection devices
Prune shrubs and small trees
Assist with soil growing media sampling and testing

Track Maintenance Worker

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Apply knowledge of horse behaviour
Contribute to health and safety of self and others
Participate in workplace communications
Investigate job opportunities in racing and related industries
Comply with racing industry ethics and integrity
Apply chemicals under supervision
Maintain properties and structures
Operate vehicles
Operate machinery and equipment
Handle horses safely
Work effectively with others
Work effectively in the horse racing industry
Provide non-riding exercise to horses
Provide first aid

Horticulturalist

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Contribute to work health and safety processes
Provide information on plants and their culture
Control weeds
Control plant pests, diseases and disorders
Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas
Implement a tree protection program
Install metal structures and features
Implement a plant nutrition program
Prepare and apply chemicals
Maintain nursery plants
Implement a plant establishment program
Implement a landscape maintenance program
Implement a tree transplanting program
Identify plant specimens
Troubleshoot irrigation systems
Operate machinery and equipment

Arboriculturalist – Climbing Arborist

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Prepare to work safely in the construction industry
Inspect trees for access and work
Perform pruning operations
Tie, dress, set and finish arborist knots
Identify trees
Coordinate work site activities
Maintain chainsaws
Trim and cut felled trees
Fall trees manually (intermediate)
Operate a pole saw
Provide first aid
Use business technology
Shift materials safely using manual handling methods
Working safely near live electrical apparatus as a non-electrical worker
Dismantle trees
Perform aerial rigging
Perform ground based rigging
Licence to operate a boom-type elevating work platform (boom length 11 metres or more)
Undertake aerial rescue
Use advanced climbing techniques
Use standard climbing techniques to access trees
Install cable and bracing
Work safely at heights
Implement a tree protection program
Implement a tree transplanting program

Arboriculturalist – Elevated Work Platform

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Prepare to work safely in the construction industry
Inspect trees for access and work
Perform pruning operations
Tie, dress, set and finish arborist knots
Identify trees
Coordinate work site activities
Maintain chainsaws
Trim and cut felled trees
Fall trees manually (intermediate)
Operate a pole saw
Provide first aid
Use business technology
Shift materials safely using manual handling methods
Working safely near live electrical apparatus as a non-electrical worker
Licence to operate a boom-type elevating work platform (boom length 11 metres or more)
Dismantle trees
Perform aerial rigging
Perform ground based rigging
Use advanced climbing techniques
Use standard climbing techniques to access trees
Undertake aerial rescue
Install cable and bracing
Work safely at heights

Landscape Gardener

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Install drainage systems
Set out site for construction works
Construct landscape features using concrete
Construct brick and/or block structures and features
Construct stone structures and features
Implement a paving project
Implement a retaining wall project
Provide information on plants and their culture
Implement a plant establishment program
Implement soil improvements for garden and turf areas
Contribute to work health and safety processes
Implement a landscape maintenance program
Implement a plant nutrition program
Install water features
Implement a tree transplanting program

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