Campus:
East Bay

Job ID: 527146

Job Title:
Tree Trimmer II

Appointment Type:
Probationary

Time Base:
Full-Time

Date Posted:
April 28, 2023

Closing Date:
Open until filled

Description:

Salary and Benefits

PLEASE NOTE: The starting salary placement depends on qualifications and experience and is anticipated to be in the range of $4,500.00 per month to $5,200.00 per month.

Cal State East Bay offers a broad range of benefits that includes medical, dental, vision, retirement (CalPERS), 401k, 457, 403(b), dependent and health care reimbursement accounts, life insurance, vacation and sick leave, 14 paid holidays, one personal holiday and tuition fee waiver.

For more information on the benefits program, please visit our benefits website. The CSU Total Compensation Calculator demonstrates the significance of our benefits package.

Classification

Tree Trimmer II

About Cal State East Bay

Cal State East Bay's beautiful main campus is located in the Hayward hills with panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay shoreline. Situated above the city of Hayward, the campus offers an ideal setting for teaching and learning and yet easy access to the many cities along the bay. The University has a satellite campus in Concord, a professional development center in Oakland and a significant presence online. Founded in 1957, Cal State East Bay is one of 23 universities of the California State University system (CSU). Cal State East Bay is recognized as a regionally engaged and globally oriented university with a strong commitment to academic innovation, student success, engaged and service learning, diversity, and sustainability.

About the Position

The Tree Trimmer II position maintains and trims campus trees of various heights to promote their health and appearance. This position often requires the use of special climbing equipment such as ropes, climbing spikes, safety belts, and supplemental rigging and aerial personnel lifts or aerial ladders. The incumbent reshapes trees and canopies, trims or removes dead, diseased or unsightly growth/branches, occasionally plants, cultivates, and irrigates trees. This positions also requires driving a dump truck, and other automotive equipment, and ensuring the maintenance of climbing and tree trimming tools such that they are in good working order to perform assigned duties. The Tree Trimmer II is also responsible for providing lead work direction and training to students, grounds workers, or individuals in other grounds classifications engaged in routine tree trimming work.

Responsibilities

Tree Appearance:

• Maintains and trims trees of various heights to promote their health and appearance when such work requires the use of special climbing equipment such as ropes, climbing spikes, safety belts, and supplemental rigging and aerial personnel lifts or aerial ladders.

Tree Cultivation:

• Tops and reshapes trees; trims or removes dead, diseased, or unsightly growth and roots.
• Lowers cut branches by slings or lines, cables and bolts trees to cross-support weak limbs; fells and removes sections of trees or entire trees.
• Fells and removes branches, sections of trees or entire tree from or around lights and power lines. Applies treatment to trees having diseased or unhealthy conditions.

Tools/Equipment:

• Maintains climbing and tree trimming tools in good working order.
• Drives dump truck and other automotive equipment in performance of assigned duties.
• Uses power saws, handsaws, wenches, grinders, and sharpening tools as necessary.
• Safely lowers cut branches using slings or lines, cables and bolts trees to cross-support weak limbs.

Tree Care/Evaluation:

• Applies treatment to trees having diseased or unhealthy conditions, occasionally plants, cultivates, and irrigates trees.
• Evaluates tree condition; follows the campus landscape master plan.
• Provides feedback to leadership with recommendations and tree conditions.

Lead/Training:

• Provides lead work direction and training to students, grounds workers, or individuals in other grounds classifications engaged in routine tree trimming work.
• Stays abreast with new industry techniques and practices.
• Attends all scheduled trainings.

Other Duties as Required:

• May on occasion, perform the duties of a Grounds worker when required.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge:

• Thorough knowledge of methods, materials, and tools used in trimming, shaping, cultivating, and caring for trees.
• Working knowledge of necessary rigging and various knots used in tree trimming work.
• General knowledge of different species of trees and their growing characteristics as related to pruning and shaping methods.

Abilities:

• Ability to trim trees according to accepted practices.
• Perform or quickly learn to perform necessary rigging and tying of various knots used in climbing and use climbing spikes and saddles.
• Work from hydraulic aerial lifts or from aerial ladders and work at considerable heights above the grounds.
• Perform work which requires physical strength and agility.
• Read and write at a level appropriate to the duties of the position; and follow oral and written directions.

Experience:

• Two years of general experience in the care and maintenance of landscaped areas or general grounds, with one year in tree trimming and tree maintenance work which has provided a working knowledge of aerial equipment and safety practices and the necessary skills for climbing and high altitude tree trimming.

Preferred Skills and Knowledge

• Five (5) years in the use of special tree climbing tools, equipment and lift vehicles.

Physical Conditions

• Ability to safely lift, carry, push, and pull objects weighing up to 50 pounds.
• Work from hydraulic or aerial lifts, aerial ladders and work at considerable heights above the grounds.
• Spends a substantial portion of time in the maintenance and trimming of trees of a height, which involves a higher personal safety risk and/or requires the use of special climbing equipment and to a lesser extent hydraulic aerial lifts or aerial ladders.

License/Certification

• Valid California Driver's License

Condition(s) of Employment

Satisfactory completion of a background check (including LiveScan, as appropriate), that may include, but is not limited to: criminal records check, verification of academic credentials, licenses, certificates, credit history, professional references and/or verification of work history is required for employment. Cal State East Bay will issue a conditional offer of employment to the selected candidate, which may be rescinded if the background check reveals disqualifying information, and/or it is discovered that the candidate knowingly withheld or falsified information. Unsatisfactory results may also affect the continued employment of current Cal State East Bay employees who were conditionally offered the position.

All background checks are conducted through the university's third party vendor, Accurate. LiveScan is conducted through the University Police Department.

EEO Statement

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Cal State East Bay does not discriminate on the basis of any protected categories: age, ancestry, citizenship, color, disability, gender, immigration status, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran's status. The University is committed to the principles of diversity in employment and to creating a stimulating learning environment for its diverse student body.

Other Information

All California State University campuses, including Cal State East Bay, are smoke and tobacco-free. For more information, please visit our website at

In compliance with state and federal crime awareness and campus security legislation, including The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act, the Cal State East Bay Annual Campus Security Report is available at:

Sponsorship

Cal State East Bay is not a sponsoring agency for Staff or Management positions and we are not an E-Verify employer.

Mandated Reporter

The incumbent in this position may be considered a mandated reporter under the California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act and will be required to comply with requirements set forth in the CSU Executive Order 1083 as a condition of employment.