Arborist

Kier Transportation is seeking a skilled Arborist to join their team in Birmingham, emphasising the importance of arboriculture in maintaining the urban landscape. The Arborist will be responsible for tree care, ensuring the safety and aesthetic quality of the city’s highways. Key duties include setting up work sites, performing tree maintenance, and engaging with the public. Candidates should hold relevant qualifications and experience, including a City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate and a valid CSCS card. Kier promotes diversity and inclusion and offers various employee benefits, including a matched pension scheme and training opportunities.

Play a Key Role in Preserving Birmingham’s Urban Landscape – Join Us as an Arborist

Imagine a city without its trees — without the towering oaks lining our roads or the leafy canopies shading our parks. At Kier Transportation, we know that arboriculture is essential to a thriving, safe, and beautiful urban environment. That’s why we’re looking for a skilled Arborist to join our Transportation team in Birmingham. In this role you will have the chance to protect and preserve the natural elements that make our transport networks safer and more enjoyable for everyone.

Location: BirminghamContract: Permanent, Full-time

What You’ll Be Doing

As an Arborist, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining the city’s green infrastructure. Working within our experienced Arboricultural team, you’ll support the safety and visual quality of Birmingham’s highways through expert tree care and maintenance.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Setting up and operating safe work sites on the highway
• Carrying out pruning, sectional felling, and emergency tree work
• Engaging respectfully with members of the public when approached on-site
• Following safe systems of work, risk assessments, and best practices (ICoP and training requirements)
• Completing all required documentation, including LOLER check sheets, HAVS forms, and point-of-work risk assessments

What You’ll Need

This role of Arborist is great for you if you:

• Hold City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate of Competence in Using a Chainsaw from a Rope and Harness (CS 39)
• Have a valid CSCS card and a solid understanding of health & safety in high-risk environments
• Possess a full driving licence
• Bring practical Arboricultural experience and a team-focused attitude

Rewards and benefitsWe’re proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusionMaking Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We’re proud of the steps we’ve taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier’s diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here.

As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier

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Matched pension scheme up to 7.5%, Life Assurance, Enhanced Family Friendly Policies, Discounts on go-to brands, Free Heath and wellbeing services, Training and development schemes, Electric Vehicle Leasing, Paid volunteering leave.