Tree Climber

**Responsibilities**:

- **Tree Pruning**: Climbing trees to selectively remove branches for aesthetic purposes, to promote tree health, or to ensure safety by eliminating dead or hazardous limbs.
- **Tree Removal**: Climbing trees to safely dismantle and remove trees that are diseased, damaged, or pose a risk to property or safety.
- **Tree Inspection**:Climbing trees to assess their health, and identify signs of disease, pests, or structural weaknesses that may require intervention.
- **Climbing Technique**: Developing and maintaining proficiency in climbing techniques and safety procedures, including the proper use of ropes, harnesses, and other climbing equipment.
- **Equipment Maintenance**: Inspecting, maintaining, and repairing climbing equipment, such as ropes, harnesses, and climbing spikes, to ensure safe and effective operation.
- **Team Collaboration**: Working closely with other members of the tree care team, such as ground crew and supervisors, to coordinate tasks and ensure efficient and safe operations.
- **Safety Compliance**: Adhering to safety protocols and regulations, including proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE), to minimize the risk of accidents or injuries while climbing and performing tree care tasks.

**Qualifications and Skills**:

- Landscaping experience
- Proficiency in tree pruning, removal, and inspection techniques and all associated equipment; chainsaws, chippers, aerial lifts
- Knowledge of tree care practices
- Clean NYS Driver’s License
- Eagerness to learn and problem-solve
- Hands-on mentality
- Excellent communication skills
- both oral and written
- The ability to prioritize and work efficiently in a high-energy environment
- Confidence, enthusiasm, respect, and a positive attitude

**Benefits**:

- Compensation based on experience, skill, knowledge, and leadership
- Profit Sharing
- 401k + matching % (after 1 year of employment)
- Paid vacation, holidays, sick days, birthday
- Health/dental/vision Insurance
- Very positive work environment and culture (YOU will even have an open opportunity to interview and ask questions of our existing team members during our hiring process)

**Why Work With Us?**

We are a team and family-oriented company that prides itself on our positive culture and surpassing our customers' expectations We are currently in our 25th year of business - our team is very excited to continue growing, improving, and being THE best landscape company on the East End of Long Island. Come join us today to be a part of our family, while sharing a passion for excelling at what we do and a desire to continually improve ourselves

Our business is driven and run by our **5 CORE VALUES, EARTH.**

**Excellence
- We strive for excellence in everything we do**

**Accountability
- We are accountable to our clients and to each other**

**Respect
- We respect our clients, our competitors, and one another**

**Teamwork
- We work as a team to achieve more**

**Home
- We value the importance of a work/home-life balance**

If you are just as excited, and motivated and feel we are a fit for you, we are looking forward to talking with you