How do they match: Tree Trimmers and Pruners

  • Tree Trimmers and Pruners

  • Landscaper
  • Line Clearance Foreman
  • Grounds Worker
  • Tree Worker

  • Using sophisticated climbing and rigging techniques, cut away dead or excess branches from trees or shrubs to maintain right-of-way for roads, sidewalks, or utilities, or to improve appearance, health, and value of tree. Prune or treat trees or shrubs using handsaws, hand pruners, clippers, and power pruners. Works off the ground in the tree canopy and may use truck-mounted lifts.

  • Supervise others engaged in tree trimming work and train lower-level employees.
  • Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs.
  • Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
  • Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or clear branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
  • Plan and develop budgets for tree work, and estimate the monetary value of trees.

  • Supervise maintenance workers.
  • Drive trucks or other vehicles to or at work sites.
  • Estimate maintenance service requirements or costs.
  • Inspect landscaping to determine treatment needs.
  • Instruct staff in work policies or procedures.
  • Irrigate lawns, trees, or plants.
  • Operate grounds maintenance equipment.
  • Plant greenery to improve landscape appearance.
  • Prepare chemicals for work application.
  • Provide information about landscaping services or costs.
  • Remove debris from work sites.