**This position requires travel throughout the state of California.  Competitive pay plus $150 a day per diem**

Summary: 

Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts and approved climbing techniques to trim/cut trees with chain saws and similar tree cutting tools; climb ladders to gain access to work areas or work from buckets in performance of duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Operate boom trucks, loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, tractors, power saws, trucks, sprayers, and other equipment and tools.
• Climb trees, using climbing hooks and belts, or climb ladders to gain access to work areas.
• Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment.
• Cut away dead and excess branches from trees, or clear branches around power lines, using climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, and/or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers.
• Trim, top, and reshape trees to achieve attractive shapes or to remove low-hanging branches.
• Prune, cut down, fertilize, and spray trees as directed by tree surgeons.
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers, and lower branches with ropes or block and tackle.
• Operate shredding and chipping equipment, and feed limbs and brush into the machines.
• Load debris and refuse onto trucks and haul it away for disposal.
• Physical ability to travel by foot over rough and/or uneven terrain for long distances.
• Physical capability to lift objects weighing 80 pounds unassisted with frequent lifting and carrying of objects weighing 50 pounds or less unassisted.
• Be able to meet and comply with all safety considerations set herein and required for the position.

Education and Experience: 

• High School diploma preferred.
• 2 years of verifiable related experience in tree work to include climbing.
• Qualified in line clearance tree work to include climbing as defined by OSHA.