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Do you enjoy working with trees and know how to safely care for them? Join us in maintaining the trees across the Sarasota County properties! Spend your days outdoors, doing meaningful work that helps keep Sarasota beautiful. If you’re passionate about tree care and ready to make a difference, apply today!

+ Perform tree trimming, pruning, and reduction cuts to tree branches in street tree inventory ensuring the lowest branches are reduced

+ May need to remove small or large trees on County properties as needed

+ Perform pesticide applications to all urban street trees within County rights of ways up to (3) times a year

+ Perform hand spreading of fertilizers to trees that are confined in areas that are not accessible by motorized vehicles

+ Respond to customer complaints relating to right-of-way line-of-site issues or roadway blockage concerns

+ Complete and submits work orders

Work Hours: Monday through Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

About You

Minimum Qualifications:

+ A High School Diploma or its equivalent

+ One (1) year experience in tree care maintenance, landscaping, or natural lands management

+ Pass the Green Industries Best Management Practices course for fertilizer application within six (6) months from the time of hire

+ A valid Florida Driver's License at the time of hire

Preferred Qualifications:

+ One (1) year of tree pruning experience

+ Florida Department of Transportation “Temporary Traffic Control Certification” Intermediate Level

+ Experience operating and maintaining small power and hand equipment

+ Experience operating Aerial lifts, Brush chippers, Chainsaws, Hand tools, Stump grinder, Ropes and Saddles

Physical Demands:

+ Employee is expected to lift logs and brush more than 75 pounds to feed brush chipper for up to six (6) hours per day

+ Employee must be able to hoist/pull body weight while using rope and saddle for climbing

+ Employee is expected to use various chain saws and hand tools for up to six (6) hours per day

+ Employee works in high, precarious places, around fumes or air-borne particles, in outdoor weather conditions (cold/hot), with dangerous equipment

Subject to Passing Substance Screening: This position is subject to passing a pre-employment substance screening. An applicant who fails to pass a required drug screening test shall be disqualified from employment in any class for a period of five (5) years.

About Everything Else

Starting Pay Range: $21.85 - $22.00/ hour, based on experience

Our interview process could include phone interview(s), Microsoft Teams video interview(s), and/or in-person interview(s).

If you are selected to join our team, please click on this link to review the Required First Day Documents (http://www.scgov.net/home/showpublisheddocument/66596/638617478290291353) . You will need to present the following items on your first day:

1. I-9 Acceptable Documents to show your identity and authorization to work. Use this link to learn more and review the different document options: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents

+ If your position requires a Florida Driver’s License, this must be one of your documents. (Your Florida Driver’s License can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List B Documents.)

2. U.S. Social Security Card (signed, physical card). This is a requirement of our Payroll Department and failure to provide this document could jeopardize timely compensation. (Your U.S. Social Security Card can serve as one of your documents listed in link above – List C Documents.)

Benefits:

+ Enjoy great benefits including Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Florida Retirement System (FRS) and many, many more! C hoose one of three great medical plans, including one with a $0 premium option, with completed preventative visits!

+ For more information about employee benefits, please click this link or visit SCGov.net (https://www.scgov.net/government/human-resources/employee-health-and-benefits) for additional information.

+ Utilize our award-winning wellness program including free gyms at multiple Sarasota County Government locations.

+ Enjoy 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days and 16 paid vacation days in the first year of full-time employment with increasing accrual rates with years of service. (That adds up to a possible 30 days off in your 1st year!)​​

A different blend of voices prompt better conversations, choices and results for everyone. Sarasota County – Many Voices, One Team.

We celebrate and value the experiences, backgrounds, perspectives, talents and strengths that make us different.

Our vision is to attract, develop, retain and engage a talented workforce broadly representative of the citizens and communities we serve. To further value creativity, innovation, collaboration and great customer service – internally and externally.

A job applicant with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to participate in the application/selection process is requested to make known the need for an accommodation to Human Resources or appropriate county staff members. For assistance with the application, please call 941-861-5353.

Sarasota County prohibits discrimination in all services, programs or activities. View the complete policy at scgov.net (keywords: ADA Compliance).

Sarasota County Government is a Tobacco-Free/Drug-Free Workplace.