Arb Officer- S London

Our client is a south London local authority with shared services across two boroughs. They have a busy tree section covering the management of the council's tree stock and providing advise to their planning section on works to protected trees and responding to development surveys. 

 

They currently require an Arboricultural Officer initially for a three month period with the option to go permanent for the right candidate.

 

Principal duties of the role would be:

• To inspect trees within highways, parks and open spaces and cemetery sites, generating works recommendations in response to customer enquiries; the officer will be expected to inform residents of inspection time frames and follow up responses, all within the Council’s corporate guidelines and in accordance with the adopted tree management policy

• Meeting residents to discuss tree enquiries

• Generating official contract orders

• Assisting highways colleagues to assess tree root damage

• Attending emergency call outs and coordinating action to make a site safe

• Contract monitoring to ensure that works are being carried out in accordance with the Council and industry standards and best practice is met

• Inspecting sites for the purpose of designating tree planting locations

 

Candidates should have at least Level 3 in Arboriculture and  ideally at least 2 years experience  inspecting trees with the use of tree maangement software and the use of Microsoft Excel to record the data.

 

In return they are offering  between £16 and £18/hour PAYE.