Two seasonal positions available. We are seeking a tree climber/bucket operator and an experienced ground worker.
Monday-Friday 7:30am-5:00pm, We are a drug and alcohol free work place.
Responsibilities:
- Work as a member of a general tree care crew providing high-quality tree care.
- Perform specialized pruning and removals, install cabling and bracing.
- Safely operate equipment including chainsaws, chippers, hand-tools and/or bucket truck
- Provide excellent customer service
Qualifications:
- Must have tree care crew experience
- Must have solid tree ID skills
- Must have experience with proper pruning practices including large shade trees and ornamentals
- Must be an expert in safe chain saw/equipment operation
- Must be able to climb with or without spurs
- Valid Driver’s license, own transportation, clean driving record, and have the ability to drive trucks with trailers.
WTS Job Descriptions
Ground Person – General Tree Work
Qualifications
- Must possess a valid driver’s license.
- Must pass company-driving test.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain first-aid certification.
- Must be able to work outdoors under varying and sometimes adverse weather conditions.
- Must be able to hear verbal instructions from a distance.
- You must be healthy and drug and alcohol free
Responsibilities
- Loads and unloads trucks with logs, brush and debris often weighing 25 lbs. or more, feeds brush into brush chipper.
- Uses hand lines to lower limbs and equipment
- Keeps work area clean and orderly.
- Carries, lays out, and stows materials, tools and equipment at work site.
- Works from the ground using handsaws, poles saws.
- Drives trucks or operates other equipment as assigned.
- Services trucks and equipment. Keeps trucks and other assigned equipment in a neat and orderly fashion. Reports the need for repairs to truck and equipment to crew leader.
- Safeguards employees and public from hazards in and around the work area, staying in frequent voice communication with workers aloft.
- Helps enforce job safety practices.
- Performs related work as assigned.
- Must be able to tie and untie arborist knots
Climber/Trainee – General Tree Work
Qualifications
- A total of three months experience working on a tree trimming crew as a ground person.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license.
- Must have valid first aid certification.
- Must be able to demonstrate a working knowledge of all knots, ropes and rigging devices used in tree trimming and removal operations.
- Must know and understand ANSI standards
- Must be familiar with electrical hazards, appropriate operating procedure when in proximity to electrical conductors and aerial rescue techniques in the event of an emergency aloft.
- Must successfully complete a performance review.
- Must be able to work and maneuver at considerable heights under varying and sometimes adverse weather conditions.
- Must possess physical strength and agility, good balance, good depth perception and the ability to hear verbal instructions from a distance.
- Must be able to (or be trained to) climb and descend trees using rope and safety saddle; to learn, administer and implement emergency rescue techniques, including tree rescue and all applicable first aid techniques.
- Must be able to quickly remove him/herself from a potential danger area.
- You must be healthy and drug and alcohol free
Responsibilities
- Trims or removes trees by climbing or with the aid of an aerial lift device, but only under the direct supervision of a crew leader or qualified climber.
- Loads and unloads trucks with logs, brush and debris often weighing 25 lbs. or more, lifts and feeds brush into brush chipper.
- Works from the ground using hand saws, pole saws and pruners, hand pruners, loppers, and gas-powered chain saws.
- Drives trucks or operates other equipment as assigned.
- Responsible for the inspection and proper working condition of all tools and equipment assigned to him or her.
- Safeguards employees and public from hazards in and around the work area.
- Helps enforce on-the-job safety practices.
- Performs other related work as assigned.
Pay will be discussed upon contact, but I assure you that it is more than adequate and above industry standard.
Benefits:
* We provide a minimum of 40hrs/week (regardless of weather – even if inside researching and learning)
* We provide personal paid time of 40 hrs after one year full-time, 80 hrs after two years full-time
* Paid holidays, paid sick days
* Employer Matched Simple IRA retirement plan
* We pay for any ISA Certification or Qualification you will work to obtain
* We pay for any ISA/TCIA related functions or conferences you attend
* We provide annual and sporadic bonuses
* We invest in your growth
* Company clothing
My team will feel appreciated and cared for, as much as my clients. I am looking for individuals that are interested in being a part of something. Our company is growing and will continue to grow.
There is a good future here for the right people!
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