Groundperson - Union (CDL Required)

Nelson Tree Service, Inc.; Town of Union (NY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dedicated team at a leading utility service provider as a groundperson, where you will play a crucial role in maintaining safety and efficiency in vegetation management. This position involves operating essential equipment like chainsaws and wood chippers while ensuring a safe work environment by identifying hazards. You'll be part of a company that values professionalism and commitment to quality service. If you're physically fit, enjoy working outdoors, and are ready to contribute to a vital industry, this is the perfect opportunity for you to grow and make a difference.

Qualifications

• Must be 18 years or older and willing to join the local union.
• High school diploma or equivalent preferred.

Responsibilities

• Operate chainsaw to cut brush, logs, and stumps.
• Gather and feed brush into wood chipper and maintain equipment.

Skills

Chainsaw Operation

Equipment Maintenance

Hazard Awareness

Physical Endurance

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Wood Chipper

Chainsaw

Job description

The groundperson is responsible for gathering and feeding brush & debris into a woodchipper, scanning areas for trip and fall hazards, and ensuring other workers stay out of the path of travel. This position is also responsible for maintaining equipment and materials.

Nelson Tree Service provides utility companies with line clearance services, upholding a commitment to the highest standards of performance and professionalism. If this sounds like you, apply today!

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

• Operate chainsaw to cut brush, logs, and stumps of larger trees.
• Drag, gather, and feed brush into wood chipper.
• Service vehicles and equipment, maintaining them in neat, clean, and specified mechanical order.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be 18 years of age or older.
• Must be willing to join the local union and pay union dues.

Education & Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.

Pre-Screen:

• Upon offer, employees may be required to subject and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

Physical Requirements:

• RARE (less than 10%): Sitting, Crawling, Climbing Poles, Color Vision, Climbing Ladders, Climbing Stairs.
• OCCASIONAL (up to 33%): Stooping, kneeling, squatting, body twisting, sense of touch, climbing on/off truck, gripping, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., reaching, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, balancing, lifting over 50 lbs.
• FREQUENT (up to 66%): Standing, walking, manual dexterity, seeing distant, seeing, reading, range of motion, hearing-speech range, depth perception, climbing stairs, lifting up to 10 lbs.
• CONTINUOUS (up to 100%): Sense of Touch, Gripping, Seeing, Carrying, Pulling.

Safety:

Due to the inherently dangerous nature of the industry and requirements to work with or around hazardous equipment, employees must have sufficient eyesight to judge distance/coordination of equipment and tools, be able to maintain attention and concentration for extended periods of time, and withstand exposure to all kinds of weather while completing work assignments. Employees must be able to wear personal protective equipment as necessary, enter and exit a vehicle numerous times a day, have the endurance necessary to traverse various terrain, perform job duties throughout a standard 8- or 10-hour day, and communicate effectively.

About Us:

At Nelson Tree Service, we protect the reputations of the utilities we serve. It is a defining component of our work, as we are the ambassadors for the utilities that entrust us with their vegetation management needs.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation. Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.