Arborist Vacancy - Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

[RBGE Arborists]

The Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh have an Arborist Vacancy. Full-time, permanent role, based in Edinburgh. Salary £30,779 per annum, plus civil service pension, generous holiday entitlement, and other benefits.

 

The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh are looking for keen and enthusiastic climbing Arborist with an interest in botanical collections to join our team. Our work builds on our 354-year history as a scientific botanic garden and a centre for education.  We grow over 1200 taxa of trees in the 70-acre Garden, and it is extensively planted and maintained to the highest horticultural standard. 

 

The Arboretum team are responsible for the tree collection as well as the Nepalese, Japanese, Rhododendron, Shrub and Herbaceous collections in the Arboretum areas.  A changing climate, new pests and diseases, and a major re-development project mean that this is a challenging task that can only be tackled through collaborative working.

We need a dynamic individual to join the team to maintain, conserve and develop the living collection. With a proven aptitude for carrying out tree pruning and dismantling works from a rope and harness, our ideal candidate will be comfortable taking the lead on site when carrying out these tasks. You should demonstrate expertise in tree health care, identification and management of pests and diseases, tree risk management, record keeping and sustainable compliant arboricultural practices.

 

You will need to be comfortable operating and maintaining a wide range of horticultural/ arboricultural machinery and should ideally hold a range of certificates that evidence competency.  Given the broad remit of the team, applicants must also be comfortable taking on a wide range of physical horticultural tasks and tree risk management surveys when not carrying out tree work.

 

Whilst the role will be based in Edinburgh there may be a requirement to provide support at our Benmore, Logan, and Dawyck sites, or even overseas at times. 

 

Closing date for applications -  midday on Wednesday, 17 July 2024

 

For a full job description and application instructions please follow the link below.

 

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Edited July 1 by RBGE Arborists
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