Arborist

🌳Arborist Assistant – Local Council Crew 🌳

💪 Love the outdoors? Don’t mind getting a bit dusty (or covered in sawdust)? Join our tree-loving crew and help keep the region looking leafy and beautiful! 🌿

We’re on the hunt for Arborist Assistant to support our professional team with tree maintenance work across the region. If you enjoy physical work, teamwork, and being outside instead of stuck behind a desk, this could be the perfect role for you!☀️

💰 The Good Stuff:

⏰ Guaranteed Full-Time Hours Monday–Friday | 6am – 4pm

📅 Every 2nd Friday OFF (RDO!)– hello long weekends!

💲 $36.13 per hour + Super

🌳 Work outdoors with a great council team

What to bring:

👢 Safety Boots

🦺 Hi-Vis Vest

👕 Long Sleeve Shirt

👖 Long Pants

👒 Brim Sun Hat

🌿 What You’ll Be Doing

You’ll be supporting qualified Arborists to keep our parks, streets, and green spaces safe and healthy.

Daily tasks may include:

🪚 Maintaining chainsaws

🌿 Manually hauling branches

🪵 Feeding the woodchipper

🍂 Raking, sweeping & general site clean-up

🚚 Assisting with maintenance of trucks & machinery

🔧 Operating small plant, power tools & maintenance equipment

📱 Using technology for communication, data collection & work orders

🌳 Assisting with tree pruning, removal & other arboriculture tasks

🎌 Helping with banner & decoration installations

📋 Completing scheduled works & supporting project completion

🤝 Representing Council professionally with customers & stakeholders

➕ Other duties as directed by the Supervisor, Team Leader or Leading Hand within the scope of the role



✅ Essential Requirements

✔ White Card

🚗 Class C Open Driver Licence

💪 Experience in outdoor manual work (construction, landscaping, gardening, arboriculture etc.)

🛠 Experience operating & maintaining machinery and power tools



⭐ Desirable Tickets (Bonus Points!)

🪜 Elevating Work Platform (EWP) High Risk Work Licence

🧗 Working at Heights Ticket

🧪 ACDC Licence (Agricultural Chemicals Distribution Control)

🪚 Chainsaw Level 1, 2 & Pole Saw Ticket

🌳 Ground-Based Rigging (Arboriculture) training



🌱 Bonus Experience (Nice to Have)

🌳 Tree trimming, planting or removal

🪵 Operating a mobile chipper/mulcher

🪓 Using stump grinding machines

🚜 Operating specialised arboriculture machinery



📩 Ready to Get Started?

Send your resume through to:

📧 sarah@findmea.com.au

Join a team that keeps the community green, safe and thriving 🌳✨