The posting
Certified Arborist
- Company: Grey Barn Commercial Landscaping
- Location: Northwest Arkansas
- Employment Type: Full-Time
- Work Type: Field-based / in-person
- Base Salary: $66,000/year
- Target Earnings: $78,000/year
About the Role
Grey Barn is a fast-growing commercial landscaping company serving properties throughout Northwest Arkansas. We are looking for a Certified Arborist to become our internal expert for tree care while helping us expand our tree-service capabilities. This is a hands-on field position.
Compensation
Base Salary: $66,000/year. Performance Bonus Opportunity: $12,000+/year. Target Total Compensation: $78,000+/year.
Performance bonuses will be tied to measurable results including profitable tree work, estimating performance, quality, safety, crew development, and overall individual/company performance. Exceptional performance can create opportunities to earn beyond the initial $12,000 annual bonus target.
What You Will Do
- Serve as Grey Barn's primary tree-care expert, performing and leading tree pruning, removals, planting, and chainsaw work
- Identify and document hazardous or declining trees, storm damage, and pruning and planting opportunities for the Sales/Account Management team
- Support the sales team on tree opportunities by visiting properties and estimating labor hours, crew size, and equipment for tree work
- Review larger or more complicated tree estimates before proposals are submitted
- Provide hands-on training and coaching to Crew Leaders and field employees on proper pruning, tree planting, and chainsaw safety. Teach while you work
- Establish and maintain Grey Barn's standards for chainsaw safety, PPE, aerial work, and rigging, with the authority and responsibility to stop unsafe tree work
- Assist crews with shrub pruning, hedge trimming, planting, and other landscaping duties as assigned
Requirements
- Current ISA Certified Arborist credential
- 5+ years of professional arboriculture/tree-care experience
- Demonstrated tree pruning, tree-removal, and tree-planting experience
- Strong tree identification knowledge and ability to identify common tree-health and safety issues
- Ability to estimate labor hours for tree work
- Strong understanding of chainsaw and tree-work safety
- Experience operating professional tree-care equipment
- Ability to train and coach field employees
- Willingness to perform physical field work and general landscaping work when needed
- Valid driver's license
- Ability to work outdoors throughout the year
Strongly Preferred
- 7+ years of professional arboriculture experience
- Previous tree-crew leadership and experience training field crews
- Commercial landscaping experience
- Tree-work estimating experience
- Aerial lift/bucket-truck, climbing, and rigging experience
- CDL
- ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ)
- Bilingual English/Spanish
You Will Thrive Here If You
- Want a hands-on field role
- Teach while you work
- Put safety first, including stopping unsafe tree work
- Own your estimates, your numbers, and your results
- Enjoy working with crews and the sales team
This Is Probably Not the Role for You If You
- Want to work behind a desk
- Cut corners on safety, PPE, or rigging
- Prefer to work alone instead of training others
- Avoid estimating or supporting the sales team
- Do not want to do general landscaping work when needed
Our Core Values
- Have Fun: Work hard and move fast, and enjoy the people on your crew. Bring energy and be positive.
- Try New Things Fast: Don't wait around for perfect answers. Try something, learn from it, improve it, and keep moving.
- Best in the World: Set the standard in our market for tree work, estimating, safety, pruning and customer experience.
- Put in the Work: Put on the PPE, grab the equipment, get in the field, teach while you work, and finish the job.
- Hold Accountability: Own your commitments, your numbers, your safety and your results. If something isn't right, speak up and help fix it.
