Arborist I

About the role

Florida Power & Light Company is the largest electric utility in the U.S., providing reliable energy to nearly 12 million Floridians. With one of the nation’s most fuel-efficient, cost-effective power generation fleets and industry-leading reliability, we’re redefining what’s possible in energy. Want to be part of something powerful? Join our outstanding team and help shape the future of energy.

Position Specific Description: Our Central Maintenance Department is looking for an Arborist 1 to join their team in Plantation, FL. We truly have the best team in the business.

Job Overview: Employees in this role drive reliability improvements, increase customer experience and satisfaction, and ensure work execution is within established guidelines and budgets. This position responds to elevated customer concerns and makes decisions with impact to company brand. Individuals in this role responds to customer outages during regular weather and natural disasters and ensure compliance with all regulatory and utility commission requirements.

Employee Group: Exempt; Employee Type: Full Time; Job Category: Environmental/Chemistry/Rad Protection; Organization: Florida Power & Light Company; Relocation Provided: No.

Responsibilities

• Designs, schedules, approves, and oversees work scope for all hardening, preventative maintenance, customer trim requests and capital scope work
• Coordinates with the Distribution Control Center (power systems operations) and electrical repair crews for safe and rapid grounding, line clearing and restoration efforts
• Works with and coordinates with local officials and governments to advocate for legislation and programs which enable customers to plant trees away from power lines
• Supports reactive work including: regularly occurring outages, high impact outage events, major storm restoration and out of area travel
• Oversees a large workforce for day-to-day operations including budgetary approvals and process compliance activities
• Resolves customer complaints and inquires promptly and supports legal requests
• Ensures the inspection of all work performed is in accordance with contract scope and specifications
• Coordinates with engineering teams to ensure proper clearances and vegetation clearing techniques during pre-construction activities
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Requirements

• High School Grad / GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 3+ years
• Valid Driver's License (NON CDL)
• ISA Certified Arborist

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 5+ years
• Leadership Experience: 3+ years
• ISA Certification Arborist Utility Specialist
• Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certified

Benefits

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support employees and their eligible family members.