Tree Assistant Monday - Friday 6:25am-2:55pm

Job Details

Job Title: Tree Assistant Monday - Friday 6:25am-2:55pm
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Regular/Temporary: Regular
Full/Part Time: Full-Time
Job ID: 296624

About Us

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.
Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

Assists Tree Surgeon by operating vehicle and equipment while on job site. Maintains and prepares equipment for daily use.
This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Facilities Landscaping staff. This position typically will advise and counsel: Tree Surgeons, Operations Managers and Horticulturists. This position will supervise: NA.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -
Operate equipment to include chainsaw, chipper, auger, other power equipment such as water tanks and hand tools.

Job Duty 2 -
Assist tree surgeon with operational and safety issues including running rope, pruning, pruning, pulling and hauling branches, and monitoring site for bystanders and properties.

Job Duty 3 -
Participate in new tree care by assisting Tree Surgeon in planting, watering, fertilizing, staking and mulching. Manually prunes trees to 7 inches per campus standard.

Job Duty 4 -
Perform daily tasks including loading truck, Toro Lift, sharpening chainsaws, operating vehicles, checking fluids, dispensing gasoline and operating radios.

Job Duty 5 -
Assist in campus emergencies including tornado, hurricane, and ice and snow events cleanup.

Job Duty 6 -
Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
High School Diploma, GED Certificate or Vocational School Diploma

Other Required Qualifications
Valid Georgia Driver's license
The work environment involves exposure to potentially dangerous materials and situations that require following extensive safety precaution. This position may be exposed to extreme weather conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, dust, hot surfaces, noise, rotating machinery, live electric parts or wiring. This job requires heavy lifting or carrying, bending, pushing, or pulling of objects up to 75 pounds and standing or walking for long periods.

Required Experience
Two years of job related experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS
This job requires working knowledge of tree work safety, pruning, chipping, watering, lifting, pulling and hauling debris, and operating equipment, vehicles and radio.

Shift: 6:25am-2:55pm
Grade: C4
Pay Range Starting At: $16.00/hr - $21.12/hr