landscape designer
Landscape designers design and create outdoor public areas, landmarks, structures, parks, gardens and private gardens to achieve environmental, social-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.
Also called: garden designer, landscape advisor, landscape consultant, landscaping designer, garden advisor, landscaper
- 20
- essential skills
- 21
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- interior landscaper6 skills in common
- landscape gardener6 skills in common
- groundsman/groundswoman5 skills in common
- landscape architect5 skills in common
- countryside officer4 skills in common
- agronomic crop production team leader3 skills in common
- crop production manager3 skills in common
- pesticides sprayer3 skills in common
Essential skills
20- advise supervisors
- create landscape designs
- design principles
- develop architectural plans
- ecology
- environmental design
- inspect project regulations
- landscape analysis
- landscape architectural instruments
- landscape architecture
- make drawings
- manage landscape design projects
- perform pest control
- perform studies and field investigation
- perform weed control operations
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- review construction plans authorisations
- surveying methods
- topography
Optional skills
21- agronomy
- botany
- building codes
- characteristics of plants
- conduct public presentations
- create solutions to problems
- forest ecology
- green building practices
- green building standards
- green logistics
- horticultural design
- horticulture principles
- keep task records
- landscaping materials
- lead hard landscape projects
- make decisions regarding landscaping
- manage rainwater
- plant species
- principles of landscape construction
- rainwater management
- work independently in landscaping
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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