Pest Control Workers Salary in Columbia, SC

Common tasks

• Record work activities performed.
• Clean work site after completion of job.
• Measure area dimensions requiring treatment, calculate fumigant requirements, and estimate cost for service.
• Spray or dust chemical solutions, powders, or gases into rooms, onto clothing, furnishings, or wood, or over marshlands, ditches, or catch basins.
• Recommend treatment and prevention methods for pest problems to clients.
• Inspect premises to identify infestation source and extent of damage to property, wall, or roof porosity and access to infested locations.
• Drive truck equipped with power spraying equipment.
• Direct, or assist other workers in, treatment or extermination processes to eliminate or control rodents, insects, or weeds.
• Study preliminary reports or diagrams of infested area and determine treatment type required to eliminate and prevent recurrence of infestation.
• Cut or bore openings in building or surrounding concrete, access infested areas, insert nozzle, and inject pesticide to impregnate ground.