At a Glance
- Tasks: Trim and maintain trees using cool equipment while working outdoors.
- Company: Join the City of St. Louis' Forestry Division, a team dedicated to urban greenery.
- Benefits: Earn a competitive salary plus a $3,500 hiring incentive!
- Other info: Flexible shifts, great teamwork, and opportunities for growth await you!
- Why this job: Make a difference in your community while enjoying hands-on work and fresh air.
- Qualifications: Experience with power tools and a valid Commercial Driver’s License required.
The predicted salary is between 40950 - 61438 $ per year.
This position performs advanced manual labor and operates aerial lift trucks and tree maintenance equipment to remove and maintain trees and shrubs. Duties include performing tree trimming/removal work at varying heights with chain saws and related equipment and operating aerial lift trucks and chippers in the disposal of tree debris.
Essential Functions And Responsibilities
- Directs a crew on proper tree trimming and tree removal techniques when the Forestry Foreman is offsite.
- Manually operates tree maintenance equipment such as chippers, chainsaws, hand saws, pruners, dump trucks, grapple loaders, aerial lifts, and loaders.
- Performs pre-trip inspections on all vehicles and adheres to all related safety procedures.
- Prepares site (setting up the work zone with safety cones, securing the area) and clean up.
- Identifies trees for removal and maintenance.
- Climbs trees using climbing spikes and ladders.
- Lowers cut limbs with ropes.
- Disposes tree debris by raking, sweeping, loading, and hauling of tree debris.
- Feeds brush into chipper.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to compile, assemble, copy, record and/or transcribe data and information according to a prescribed scheme or plan.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to explain, demonstrate and clarify to others within well-established policies, procedures and standards.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate equipment and machinery requiring monitoring multiple conditions and making multiple, complex and rapid adjustments.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference data and information such as production orders, operating instructions, schedules and safety regulations.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition and subtraction.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving a variety of generally pre-defined duties that may be subject to frequent change.
Environmental Factors
Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, falling trees and traffic hazards.
Physical Requirements
Requires the ability to lift up to one hundred pounds; push and pull objects over one hundred pounds (100) to assist with tree maintenance and removal. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, climb, balance, bend and twist to perform work procedures.
Sensory Requirements
Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and sounds associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks.
Other Requirements
- Must be available to work varying shifts including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime.
- Must be available for 24-hour snow call, emergency windstorm call and overtime.
- Must know proper roping and trimming techniques.
- Must know basic rigging techniques.
- Must know basic tree planting techniques.
- Must possess a strong understanding of the latest ANSI A300 Tree Care Standards and the ANSI Z133 Safety Requirements.
Qualifications
Two years of recent full-time paid experience in the operation of manual and power tools, ropes and other tools used in planting, pruning, trimming and removing trees and stumps.
License
Must possess at least a valid Commercial Driver’s License Permit at the time of filing application and be able to present it upon request. Incumbents must possess and maintain a valid Missouri Commercial Driver’s License (Class A) while employed by the City of St. Louis.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
- Performance Test: 100%
- May Be Subject To Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
- Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information.
Tree Trimmer II employer: City of St. Louis Office on the Disabled
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Contact Details:
City of St. Louis Office on the Disabled Recruitment Team
