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About the Role
NYC Parks manages over 30,000 acres of diverse properties including recreational facilities, nature centers, and historic buildings. This role is crucial for the planting, maintenance, and removal of trees and large shrubs within the city's green spaces.
Responsibilities
- Perform all types of work required for the planting, maintenance, and removal of trees and large shrubs under supervision.
- Climb, prune, brace, cut, and fell trees and large shrubs.
- Operate bucket truck, aerial lift, cherry picker, chipper, and similar equipment.
- Identify hazard defects of trees and ensure public safety.
- Perform tree inspections.
- Identify trees by species and inspect for pests and diseases like the Asian Longhorned Beetle.
- Prepare and use composting sites.
Requirements
- Six months of satisfactory, full-time experience as a climber and pruner or arborist performing all types of tree work.
- Experience must include climbing, pruning, bracing, cutting, and felling trees and large shrubs.
- Experience must include operating manual, power-driven, and motorized equipment for tree work.
- Experience as a ground person is not acceptable.
- Possess a motor vehicle driver license valid in the State of New York at the time of appointment.
- Obtain a Class B Commercial Driver License valid in the State of New York within one year of appointment.
- Maintain a Class B Commercial Driver License for the duration of employment.
- Driver license must not have restrictions precluding Climber and Pruner work.
- Serious moving violations, license suspension, or accident record may disqualify applicants.
Skills
- Climbing
- Pruning
- Bracing
- Cutting
- Felling trees
- Operating bucket truck
- Operating aerial lift
- Operating cherry picker
- Operating chipper
- Tree identification
- Pest and disease identification
- Composting
Location
- TBD
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Entry-level (6 months experience)
Salary/Compensations
- USD 76580 - USD 76580
Benefits
- Pension
- Excellent health coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Competitive vacation days
- Competitive sick days
About the Company
- NYC Parks manages more than 30,000 acres, 14% of the city’s land, encompassing more than 5,000 individual properties.
- Diverse assets include recreational facilities, nature centers, historic buildings and structures, trees, forests, wetlands, golf courses, athletic fields, playgrounds, tennis courts, public pools, retaining walls and nearly 14 miles of beaches.
- nyc.gov/parks
Equal Opportunity
- The City of New York is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce and providing a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected status or protected characteristic, including but not limited to an individual's sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.