Service Careers - Drumright

Landscape maintenance technicians maintain landscaped environments by planting flowers, pruning, edging, mowing, trimming, soil preparation, weeding, mulching and apply appropriate seasonal applications. They often will perform routine or special types of maintenance on residential properties, office buildings, golf courses, athletic fields and park and recreation facilities. Hand tools such as shovels, pruning saws, hedge and brush trimmers, rakes, saws, power lawnmowers, snow blowers, and electric clippers are regularly utilized to accomplish their tasks. Skills taught during this major include orientation and safety, landscape grounds keeping, landscape turf-management, tool operation and workforce staging.

This major introduces students enrolled in the Service Careers majors to the safety practices, tools and equipment, and skills required to work as an assistant in the landscaping industry. Students learn grounds keeping duties such as pruning, edging, mowing, soil preparation, mulching and seasonal applications. Included is training in operation of tools and equipment such as lawn mowers and tractors, ZTR, verticut machines, chippers, aerators, and sprayers and spreaders.

Students enrolled in the Service Careers majors as horticultural assistants undertake a range of tasks to do with cultivation, growing, harvesting and maintenance of trees, plants and gardens. Students learn safe practices, use of tools and equipment, propagation and care of plants, and soil testing and preparation. Included is information concerning construction, operation and management of greenhouses.

Service careers food services assistant perform duties which combine both food preparation and food service. Food services assistants weigh, measure, clean, cut, or peel during the preparation of a variety of foods including vegetables, meat, fish, and poultry. They may perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, assist cooks and chefs with tasks during busy times; distribute food to wait service staff, and serve food or beverages. Food service assistants must understand and practice government health, hotel or food handling/service rules and regulations. Skills taught during this major include orientation and safety, service careers in life skills, preparation for work in the food service industry, tools and utensils used in food handling, preparation, baking and cooking, food production equipment and workforce staging.

Students enrolled in the Service Careers majors are introduced to entry level jobs in the housekeeping industry where they will clean and maintain living areas such as hotel/motel rooms, private residences, and retirement facilities. Included are safe practices, use of tools and equipment, and safe handling of chemicals related to the housekeeping industry along with life skills and employability skills. Students receive job training in housekeeping skills such as vacuuming, dusting and changing bedding, and sanitizing rooms and furniture.

Students will learn leadership, employability skills, occupational health and safety, and tool and equipment identification. In addition, they will learn how to be a lube technician, which means they will learn how to change the oil and check on other fluids. They will also learn how to mount/dismount, rotate, and balance tires and wheels. Students will also examine how this occupation fits into shops, dealerships, and quick lube facilities.

Students will learn leadership, personal development, and employability skills. The students will also learn interior and exterior detailing such as glass cleaning, vacuuming vehicle, washing vehicle, and other aspects found in customer vehicle delivery.

The student will be introduced to the safety procedures and skills required to conduct minor maintenance and repairs to small gas engines. They will learn to replace spark plugs, sharpen mower blades, adjust or replace worn pulley belts, inspect fuel equipment and add and/or change oil. They will also learn to troubleshoot problems with small gas engine powered equipment and make minor repairs. Students in this major will also learn leadership, personal development, and employability skills.