Arboriculture Manager

Brand: Landscape Services
Role:Arboriculture Manager
Salary: 37,000 - 40,000 per annum
Location: Kent (on-site working)

The Role
As an Arboriculture Manager at Landscape Services, you'll play a pivotal role in our management team. Your mission will be to lead and expand a dynamic team dedicated to delivering top-notch tree care and inspections, ensuring both contract compliance and customer satisfaction.

The successful candidate will need a thorough grasp of all aspects of arboriculture, from inspections to TPO applications. We're looking for someone who's not just organised and adept but also has a proven track record of steering teams across various locations. You'll excel in mapping out efficient work plans and directing staff to meet our high standards, resource allocation, and contractual commitments.

Your expertise in health and safety, coupled with the ability to conduct risk assessments and adhere to safe work practices, is vital.

Due to the nature of work being carried out a full DBS check (provided by the Company) and a Full UK Driving License is required.

In return we will offer you:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Never work a birthday again! You receive an extra day off for it to enjoy however you wish!
• Company Vehicle
• Life assurance cover
• A culture of progression and development
• Plus many more perks

Key Duties:

• Setting up daily schedules for all teams, ensuring that they carry out all scheduled tasks, including routine and specialised general tree maintenance, tree inspections, and the submission of electronic reports
• Preparing for monthly management reports plus attending customer and site meetings
• Ensuring that risky or unsafe behaviours are minimised in order to reduce the possibility of an accident or harm. Providing event and near-miss reports
• Maintaining all health and safety documents and records
• Working closely and forming great relationships with clients, take full responsibility for all client facing operations, ensuring all work is completed on time and to good standard
• Planning, organising, and supervising all equipment, staff and materials to avoid wastage and ensure compliance with required standards
• Ensure that all staff adhere to the vehicle Policies and regular monitoring takes place resulting in swift action is taken to remedy faults or issues.

What we need from you:

• Previous experience in an arboriculture / tree surgeon role
• Strong leadership skills
• Good numeracy skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Knowledge of pricing work (desirable)
• Lantra Basic Tree Survey and Inspection or equivalent
• Full UK driving license (essential)

About Landscape Services

Landscape Services is a specialist provider of outdoor maintenance and management services, particularly around grounds maintenance, arboriculture, horticulture and landscaping projects. They use their 80+ years of public and private sector expertise to deliver valuable, safe and assured results for our customers, developing adaptable solutions in line with our core values, and theirs, whilst simultaneously helping to sustain our natural environment

About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is one of the largest providers of public sector and education procurement and support services globally, with revenues of c 600M, 1,800 staff across 25 trading brands, providing services ranging from HR Services, IT Services, Energy, Education Resources, Procurement, and many more.

Wholly owned by Kent County Council, CSG supports over 15,000 customers in 86 countries and collaborates with a supply chain of c1,000 suppliers.