Arboriculture Environment Specialist

About the job. Are you an experienced Arboriculture Environmental Specialist looking for the next step within your career? Wanting a role where you can use your asset management skills alongside your knowledge of technical standards? Then National Highways has the role for you! We’re looking for an Environmental Specialist to join our team based in the Midlands (Stirling House), to lead and coordinate inspections, involved in the identification of asset needs and development of early solutions and maintenance requirements for the asset class in scope. Ensure the health and safety needs and wellbeing of customers and employees are fully considered and accounted for throughout the planning and delivery of each service activity. Carrying out soft estate inspections (including tree safety inspection) and surveys, assessing both safety and conditions of the roadside verge in line with National Highways standards. This role will heavily involve being out on the Strategic Road Network, liaising with residents, and tasking necessary work to our Maintenance and Response Contractor. Management of invasive and injurious weeds. Maintaining electronic records of tree inspections/re-inspections, complaints from the public and other bodies, and drive-by inspections. Carrying out such other duties which are consistent with the nature and responsibilities of this role. About you. LANTRA Professional Tree Inspection Certificate. NVQ Arb Certification Level 3 minimum or similar BTEC certificate/diploma. A Chartered or Incorporated membership of a relevant professional body. Strong knowledge of asset condition assessment and degradation modelling. Experience working adjacent to live Strategic Road Network is preferred. About us. Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership. Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage. All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys. External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

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