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 TREE TRIMMER/PRUNER

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Responsible for cutting down, pruning, or trimming branches, leaves, and roots from trees to prevent damage and destruction or for aesthetic purposes.

Full Time

  • Cut away dead, obstructive, or excess branches from trees and shrubbery
  • Utilize chain saws and work crews to safely cut down limbs
  • Climb trees with safety devices to properly cut down limbs
  • Prune or treat trees or shrubs using handsaws, pruning hooks, sheers, and clippers
  • Use lifts and power tools to gain access to high areas
  • Remove debris and cart away large limbs for disposal
  • Cut branches away from power lines
  • Cable, brace, tie, bolt, stake, and guy trees and branches to provide support
  • Utilize climbing equipment or buckets of extended truck booms, and/or chainsaws, hooks, handsaws, shears, and clippers
  • Use shovels and rakes to clear debris
  • Submit job estimates
  • Clear sites, streets, and grounds of woody and herbaceous materials, such as tree stumps and fallen trees and limbs
  • Reshape trees to create aesthetically pleasing shapes
  • Apply tar to cut surfaces to seal in moisture
  • Strip bark from trees

  • Ability to move, assist, and/or help lift items or awkward weights
  • High School diploma or GED required
  • Possession of a valid Florida Driver’s License
  • Read and write in English
  • Must be at least 18 years old and be able to follow verbal and written instructions

From $16.39 - - - To $22.55 | Hourly Salary

Full-Time Hourly (Monday thru Friday) availability to work overtime and some weekends when necessary.

 

If interested, please submit letter of interest, resume, and application to our Job Inbox by Wednesday, June 15, 2022



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