Senior Forester

Yours will be a key, hands-on role in helping to maintain excellent standards of presentation, woodland management, and conservation in order to deliver a visitor experience worthy of one of the north east’s major visitor attractions.

The estate is a grade 1 registered landscape, and the emphasis is, therefore, on arboriculture principles and practices, rather than commercial forestry.

Hours: Sunday to Thursday, including Bank Holidays, and you will also be part of the duty manager rota for daily operations on the property. Please note this is non-negotiable, please do not apply unless you are able to work this pattern. 

Contract: Permanent 

Salary: £30,000pa

If you have any questions about this role please contact: Christopher.Clues@nationaltrust.org.uk

Cragside is one of the most popular visitor attractions in the Northeast, welcoming around 250,000 visitors every year. Located in stunning, rural Northumberland 15 miles from the coast, and only 30 miles from the vibrant city of Newcastle, living and working at Cragside allows you to enjoy the best of both worlds.

This is a high performing property team, experienced in a broad range of disciplines. Everyone works closely together to look after Cragside for our visitors – both present and future – to enjoy. 

Managing the extensive landscape requires close cooperation between the outdoor teams, especially when it comes to delivering an exceptional, seamless visitor experience across the property. At Cragside, visitors have access to the entire estate should they wish to explore it fully.

As the Senior Forester, working within the forestry team, you will be responsible for helping care for, and manage, the Cragside estate. This will include carrying out a wide range of tree and woodland practical maintenance activities, along with some wildlife conservation activity.

You'll also be responsible for supervising the forestry team activities in the absence of the Head Forester. This will include some administrative responsibilities including meetings, planning, and ensuring compliance and essential tasks are completed.

A natural ambassador for the National Trust, you’ll be responsible for helping with excellent communication of our conservation and woodland management work to a wide range of audiences, both new and existing, as well as contractors.

We would love to hear from you if you have:

• practical experience of woodland management, tree safety work and inspections 
• NPTC certificates including chainsaw units 201, 202 , 301, 302 (maintenance and cross cutting, Small, med fell, assisted fell, and windblown timber) NPTC tractor,PA1/PA6 spraying, chipper, and forestry machine operator units FMO 208, 209 (base unit and line skidder) 
• a full UK Driving licence 
• proven track record in health and safety and environmental compliance 
• experience supervising contractors or working with external agencies.