712206 - Environment maintenance worker

Installs, renovates and maintains public green spaces, lays paving stones, slabs, bricks, manages sand curbs or other types of surfaces, constructing sidewalks.

Main activities

• cuts and prunes hedges and trees, gives them decorative forms, takes into account botanical and aesthetic aspects
• plants, fertilizes and prunes trees, shrubs and hedges
prepares the base for paving, marks the edge lines and determines the area and height contours;
• chooses suitable materials for paving, pavers, natural stone, clinker;
• install curbs and roadsides delimiting paths.
 

Characteristic competences

• plant plants
• trim hedges and trees
• prepare the soil, the base for paving, mark the height, width, side lines of the future pavement;
• choose suitable materials, tiles or large-sized panels;
• install curbs delimiting the edges of the road and pavement;
• use paving machines and hand tools;
• comply with work safety rules.