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Essential Functions

Responsibilities :

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

Minimum Qualifications :

Must be 18 years-of-age or older.

Education & Experience :

• High School Diploma or equivalent preferred.
• Entry-level position, no experience required.
• Previous experience a plus.

Pre-Screen :

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

License & Certifications :

Driver's License Preferred, but not required.

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 the 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 :

• Works around hazardous equipment.
• Works around excessive noise from machines, chain saws, and woodchippers, with hearing protection.
• Works in all temperatures and weather and will be exposed to nature, i.e., irritating plants, biting, or stinging insects, dust, etc.
• Works on unlevel ground.
• Works around falling limbs with protection.

About Us :

As a full-service utility contractor Asplundh performs tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, vegetation management with herbicides and emergency storm work and logistical support.

Asplundh is the parent company of Asplundh Infrastructure Group whose subsidiaries provide overhead and underground line construction, planning and design, meter reading and AMR / AMI installation, electrical testing, and street lighting / traffic signal services.

Asplundh also operates Rotor Blade Airborne Utilities Management, overhead electric distribution, and transmission lines using MD 500 helicopters.

Last updated : 2024-05-12