Arborist

**About You**

You are a committed, passionate, and respectful individual. You can work independently and as part of a team with a willingness to learn and improve every day. Safety is a top priority for you as is doing a job right the first time. You believe arborists are professionals, arborists can make a difference, and our urban forests are an important part of the future.

**About the role you’ll play**

You will be part of a team that believes in the above values as much as you do and works every day to uphold those values. Working alongside other likeminded arborists, you will provide top quality tree care services to a wide range of clients, including residential, commercial, and municipal clients. All team members work together with senior management, our sales arborists, and scheduling supervisor to ensure that organizational processes run effortlessly and efficiently. Full-time positions are available at our Burlington office.

**What you’ll be doing**
- Maintaining and operating specialized equipment including, chippers, stump grinders, and chainsaws in a safe and responsible manner.
- Operating special equipment such as skids steers, mini skid steer, bucket trucks and cranes.
- Using all of the above plus climbing and rigging skills you will perform trimming, pruning, and removing trees and shrubs following standard arboriculture practices.
- Providing plant health care services such as deep root fertilization, systemic injections, pheromone traps and other IPM methods to improve plant health and vigor.

**Requirements**:

- Willingness to work towards ISA Certification and a general willingness towards continued improvement of skills and development.
- Applied knowledge and understanding of standard industry practices.
- Good people skills; self-motivated; willingness to work as a team.
- Good knowledge of plant physiology and the ability to diagnose and remedy major pests, diseases, and tree disorders.
- Minimum Class G driver’s license and clean abstract

**About this position - current positions available or future available positions**

Permanent, full time, currently working out of our Burlington office.
- Climbing Arborists
- Grounds Crew
- Junior / Consulting Arborist
- Plant Health Care Technicians
- **Salary and Benefits**:

- Competitive salary
- Health & Dental Benefits
- Matching RSP Program
- Individualized training allowance
- Annual boot allowance
- The best co-workers anyone can ask for

**About Maple Hill Tree Services**

Maple Hill Tree Services is a firmly established growing tree care company based in Burlington. We are a team of enthusiastic and motivated industry professionals that pride ourselves on high caliber workmanship, excellent customer service and uncompromising safety. We specialize in safe, high-quality residential and commercial tree care and are committed to responsible arboriculture practices and urban forest management.

**Salary**: $19.00-$35.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- RRSP match
- Tuition reimbursement

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekends as needed

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Burlington, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- arboriculture: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- ISA Certification (preferred)

Work Location: In person