Arbor Groundsman

About the role

Jensen Landscape Services is currently seeking a skilled Arbor Ground Laborer to join our Monarch Tree Services team in Sacramento, CA. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a values-based learning organization dedicated to the field of landscaping.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform arbor ground labor tasks as instructed by Arbor Crew Lead
• Demonstrate ability to effectively work independently while on site for extended periods
• Safe operation of shredding and chipping equipment, including feeding brush and limbs into machines
• Safe operation of arbor equipment, including loaders, stump chippers, brush chippers, power saws, chainsaws, pole pruners, backpack blowers, and hand tools
• Hoist tools and equipment to tree trimmers
• Clean, sharpen, and lubricate tools and equipment
• Collect debris and refuse from tree trimming and removal operations into piles, using shovels, rakes, or other tools
• Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs
• Load debris and refuse into trucks

Qualifications

• At least six months of professional tree work experience
• Ability to communicate effectively with crew lead and other crew members
• Basic tree care principals, pruning techniques, tree ID and disease ID
• Aerial rescue; safe work practices; proper PPE; hazard recognition; DigAlert procedures and tree removal techniques; basic knots and rope operation for rigging; emergency tree rescue procedures
• Excellent internal and external customer service skills

Physical Demands

• Frequently required to talk, hear, see, sit, stand and walk
• Frequent use of hands to manipulate, handle or feel objects, tools or controls
• Frequently required to reach, bend, twist, stoop, crouch, climb and balance
• Frequently required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds

Total Rewards

• Competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities
• The opportunity to enroll in a variety of healthcare benefit programs, including medical, dental, and vision plan options; flexible spending accounts; retirement savings plans; term life/ad&d; and a number of supplemental insurances
• Company Provided Life/AD&D
• Employee Assistance Program
• 7 Paid Holidays
• 3 Days Paid Bereavement
• 3 Days Paid Jury Duty
• Employee Equity Program
• Paid Time Off Starting at 1 week per year
• Sick Pay in accordance with applicable state or local ordinance
• On-Demand Pay Through A Partnership with DailyPay
• Referral Bonuses Programs
• Gym Membership and Mobile Carrier Discounts
• Education Assistance
• Best-in-Class Learning Management System
• Career Advancement Opportunities

Supervisory Responsibilities

This position has no full-time supervisory responsibilities.