Arborist Team Leader

Avove Limited; Oswestry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Arborist Team Leader, overseeing vegetation management for major utility contracts. You will lead a skilled team, ensuring high safety and quality standards while managing operations across the Northwest. This full-time role offers a rewarding salary and a variety of flexible benefits to support your career growth and wellbeing.

Benefits

Company pension scheme

Life assurance

Private GP Helpline & Health Cash Plan

Avove Discount Scheme

Family-friendly policies

Financial wellbeing programme

Employee assistance program

Volunteering days

Qualifications

• Strong leadership skills and extensive arboricultural knowledge required.
• Job-relevant certifications such as UA Certifications and chainsaw ticket needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage work programmes ensuring safe compliant delivery.
• Lead a team of arborists on tasks including pruning and removals.
• Ensure operational procedures and environmental practices are followed.

Skills

Leadership

Arboricultural Knowledge

Education

UA Certifications

Chainsaw Certification

First Aid Forestry F+ Ticket

Job description

Working here isn’t just a job. You can advance your career at Avove, and we’ll reward you with a range of benefits that recognise great work. We provide full training and continuous development to help you reach your potential. We strive to create an inclusive working environment where everyone can be themselves. Join us and take the next step towards a fulfilling career.

About the role…

The Arborist Team Leader will report directly to the Delivery Manager overseeing and delivering Vegetation Management works on our Utility contracts for our Clients Scottish Power Energy Networks and Northern Power Grid. You will liaise with Clients & Customers and the wider Avove Team of Surveyors, Planners, Safety and Commercial Managers.

You will lead a team of skilled Arborists which will include both Direct and Sub-contract resources. You will deliver on-site works to the highest standard, exceeding Contract requirements and Client expectations. You will have responsibility and accountability for Operational Delivery and achievement of high Health & Safety standards for you and your staff within your designated area. Works are required to be delivered as per specification, fulfilling contractual requirements and achieving budgeted volumes.

This is a full-time permanent role operating out of our offices in Oswestry whilst supporting on-site activities across the SPEN Network. There will be additional travel required to our clients’ operational sites and offices across the Northwest area.

What will your day look like…

1. Managing work programmes to ensure work is issued and carried out to the required standard with minimum risk to employees, sub-contractors, and others on site, ensuring safe compliant delivery.
2. Ensuring operational procedures, safe working methods, and best environmental practices are followed and fully implemented.
3. Ensuring that work specifications and method statements are fully completed and provided to and your operational teams.
4. Ensuring that your field staff teams understand and implement risk assessments, method statements.
5. Setting high standards and workload delivery targets for direct and contract staff in-line with contract and company objectives.
6. Completing Safety, Environment, and Quality Audits, implementing close-out actions, and improvement plans.
7. Ensuring operational work programmes are delivered within agreed budgets and within planned time scales.

About you…

Are you a skilled and motivated Arborist Team Leader to join our dynamic team? In this role, you will oversee and coordinate tree care operations, ensuring high standards of safety, efficiency, and quality. You’ll lead a team of arborists on a variety of tasks including pruning, removals, planting, and tree health assessments, while also liaising with clients and reporting to management. The ideal candidate will have strong leadership skills, extensive arboricultural knowledge, and job-relevant certifications such as UA Certifications and a current chainsaw and first aid forestry F+ ticket. If you're passionate about trees and ready to lead by example in a hands-on role, we’d love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you…

We offer a rewarding salary that is tailored to your skills and experience. But that’s not all! We celebrate hard work and give recognition to our colleagues. In addition to this, we understand that one size doesn’t fit all, so everyone has access to a variety of flexible benefits that work for you.

• Company pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Private GP Helpline & Health Cash Plan
• Avove Discount Scheme
• Family-friendly policies
• A selection of lifestyle benefit options
• Financial wellbeing programme
• Employee assistance program for health and wellbeing and onsite mental health first aiders to support our colleagues
• We love to give back, so we offer you volunteering days in your community and charity matched giving where we will boost your fundraising.

About us…

Mobilisation activities are now in progress after Avove has been awarded a groundbreaking new long-term contract by Scottish Power Energy Networks. We are delighted to announce that framework contracts for all Vegetation Management activities across the five SPEN network areas of Dee Valley & Oswestry, Mid Wales, Wirral, Mersey, Cheshire, and the Edinburgh & Borders area in Scotland have all been awarded to Avove.
The contract has now doubled in size to approximately £10m per annum and is for a full six-year period. This enables a significant recruitment programme to be implemented with effective long-term planning and investment in both staff and equipment.

We are an equal opportunities employer…

We welcome applications from candidates of all races, genders, disabilities, religions, ages, and sexual orientations. We know that having a diverse workforce encourages new perspectives, inspires creativity, and creates an engaging workplace. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all colleagues can thrive. When it comes to inclusion, we’re making sure we keep up the progress with our Communities of Practice, who help us do just that.

What next…

We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as you can. We recognize talent waits for no one, so we progress candidates individually through all stages of the recruitment process. If you have any questions, please reach out for an informal discussion.