Arborist Technician

Job Description

M&Y Maintenance and Construction is now recruiting an Arborist Technician to work with our Grounds Maintenance team.About the roleThe main purpose of this role will be to assist the Arborist Supervisor in carrying out all types of arboriculture services. You will assist in the preparation and updating of tree inventories, and you will also assist with emergency tree works as required whilst ensuring you comply with the Group’s Health and Safety policies. The post holder will also ensure that vehicles and plants are used, maintained, and secured in accordance with operational guidelines and that defects, damage or thefts are reported and investigated. You will help us to achieve our aim of the becoming the contractor of choice’ by providing excellent service to our customers and working closely with our partners.The successful candidate will be willing to work towards the following qualifications: NPTC Units: o CS30 - Maintenance o CS31 - Tree Felling o CS38 - Climb trees and perform aerial rescues o CS39 - Aerial chainsaw use Climbing skills. You will be able to work confidently at heights for long periods whilst ensuring you are working within Health and Safety at Work guidelines. You will also have the ability to work effectively and efficiently as part of a team and have a willingness to undertake training and development activities as required. The post holder will be capable of carrying out routine machinery maintenance.A basic DBS check and a full UK driving license is required for this post.About M&Y Maintenance and ConstructionM&Y Maintenance and Construction provides responsive repairs, planned works, renewables and new build services to clients across the North West. We are proud of our reputation as an established, award winning, reliable and responsive maintenance provider.We employ over 200 permanent employees across our state of the art head office in St Helens and our local depots in Oldham and Poulton-le-Fylde.M&Y Maintenance and Construction is a wholly owned commercial subsidiary of Regenda Ltd.About the Regenda GroupThe Regenda Group is a great quality, forward thinking housing business, building, managing and maintaining the homes people need. We own or manage around 13,000 properties across the region, including social rented housing, housing for older people, supported housing, private rented property, shared ownership and housing for sale.The Regenda Group is made up of Regenda Homes and its wholly-owned subsidiaries M&Y Maintenance and Construction, Redwing Living, McDonald Property Rentals, Petrus Community, The Learning Foundry, Positive Footprints and Centre 56.Our mission is to provide a comprehensive range of multi-tenure housing products and services that reflect the dynamic nature of the housing market, the diversity of our customers and a rapidly changing world.Our core purpose is to regenerate places to create opportunities for people.About our valuesOur values are the operating principles that guide our conduct and our relationship with customers, partners and stakeholders:· Customer focus· High performance· Efficiency and value for money· Teamwork· Ambition and dynamism· Openness and honesty.About our offerM&Y offers a competitive reward package, including competitive rates of pay, contributory pension scheme, enhanced annual leave and a range of salary sacrifice benefits. We believe in coaching, growing and developing our employees, with a wide variety of learning and development opportunities on offer.We are also able to offer a working environment where there’s a real buzz where staff are motivated to achieve success and make a real difference.About applyingThis is a great time to join an ambitious, thriving organisation. If you think you’ve got what it takes to join our team then take action - apply now!Interview / assessment date: 5 May 2021