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Job title: Arborist Supervisor
Reference number: 3469
Hours: Full time
Contract type: Permanent
Salary: £23,000 - £26,000 pa
Location / Postcode: Abbey Wood, London
When you join Peabody, you join an extensive and growing business. One with 27,000 homes, 70,000 residents and a 150-year history. As a major housing association we have outstanding challenges for people with talent and motivation. But we also have a strong commitment to the ideals of our philanthropist founder: George Peabody. That means you’ll have every chance to achieve – while making a difference.
Our principles are simple: we believe in helping people and communities to grow, in estates that are springboards – not safety nets. With operations in nearly every London borough and one of the sector’s largest community regeneration programmes, we’re always keen to meet talented people who support our ambitions.
We have an opportunity within Team Gallions for an Arborist supervisor.
About the role:
We’re much more than just a landlord. Managing over 5,600 properties in six London boroughs with over 1.5 million square meters of open spaces with over 30,000 trees, this is a great opportunity for the right individual to supervise a small team and develop this key service
This role requires you to be part of the environmental services who maintain all the green spaces for Gallions Peabody.
Skills and Qualifications
Key responsibilities of the role will include:
• To provide tree services in a safe manner to BS3998 which are customer oriented, high quality, responsive to the needs of the Association including external clients and in line with service standards and to supervise a small team.
• To carry out tree pruning operations, including but not limited to, - lifting, thinning, crown reduction, pollarding at heights in excess of 20 meters.
• To carry out tree felling and stump removal.
• To carry out cable braising and tree support system activities.
• To carry out tree inspections and produce associated reports.
• To safely use of a wide variety of equipment and hand tools including but not limited to saws / pole saws / hand tools / harness and ropes of all types.
Key Skills required:
• Relevant qualifications and training in arboriculture
• NPTC units in the range of 30 to 41 as a minimum
• Current driving licence
• Current driving licence
• Proven experience working in arboricultural service
• Proven ability to work in all weathers in an outdoor environment
• Demonstrable experience of supervising a small team
• Ability to undertake physically demanding work at height
• Specialist technical knowledge of arboricultural practices
• Experience of using a wide range of equipment and tools
Bring us all that, and you will have every chance to build a promising career at the heart of our team.
Closing date: 9th July 2014, 5pm
To find out more about Peabody and to apply for this role, please visit the website by pasting this link : https://www.peabody.org.uk/working-for-peabody.aspx
Peabody is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.
