Jobs involved in maintaining cleanliness and good condition of a building and/the grounds around it. Typically includes floor, walls and window cleaning, checking and alerting for repairs, routine maintenance work, planting, watering, mowing, trimming of vegetation and pest control activities.You can explore Sub Job Families and linked industry, careers and courses from links below.

Supervisors of Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Workers

Supervisors of Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Workers

Professionals in this pathway directly supervise and co-ordinate activities of personnel involved in cleaning facilities, buildings and offices like hospitals, hotels, offices etc or those engaged in landscaping or keeping grounds. Their responsibilities include handling enquiries from potential customers, providing estimates and managing contracts.

Building Cleaning and Pest Control Workers

Building Cleaning and Pest Control Workers

The Building Cleaning and Pest Control Workers include janitors, maids and housekeeping staff and pest control workers. Their main function involves keeping buildings clean and orderly, performing routine maintenance work, notifying management about repairs required, vacuuming, and keeping the building free from pests and vermin.

Grounds Maintenance Workers

Grounds Maintenance Workers

Ground maintenance workers are responsible for landscaping and maintaining parks and grounds surrounding buildings, offices and other infrastructure, to keep them attractive and healthy. Typically, their duties include mowing, planting, raking, watering, sprinkler installation, spraying and applying pesticides and insecticides etc, trimming and pruning etc. This pathway includes landscaping and groundskeeping workers, pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, tree trimmers and pruners among others.