Opportunity Description
About the Role
Arboriculture Officer maintaining and ensuring safe trees within the Borough.
Responsibilities
- Work alongside other trained Arboriculture Officers in carrying out planned and reactive works on trees throughout the Borough, including the use of chainsaws.
- Carry out a high standard of work to ensure that trees are safely maintained.
- Have experience of safely climbing and dismantling large trees.
- Work as part of a team providing an important service.
- Be flexible and follow instructions from Arboriculture Supervisors and Manager.
- Be part of an out of hours call‑out service to deal with emergency jobs.
- Follow Health & Safety guidelines, generic risk assessments and carry out dynamic risk assessments where required.
- Communicate in a clear and polite manner to members of the public.
- Work in other areas of the service as and when required.
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