Arborist & tree care job descriptions
Every role a $20M business in this industry hires for: 19 Role Blueprints, from leadership to the field. Open any role for its full template and a free Word file.
Leadership 4
Chief Executive Officer
A tree care chief executive officer chooses the kind of tree company to build: how much of the year to bet on storms, how many yards to run, and how to pay for the trucks.
Chief Operating Officer
A tree care chief operating officer sets up how every yard works: how jobs are planned, which crews and machines go where, how tree risk is judged and written up, and how injuries are logged.
Chief Financial Officer
A tree care chief financial officer finds the money for bucket trucks, chippers, grinders and cranes, and checks that each machine earns its keep.
General Manager
A tree care general manager runs one market like a company of its own: the sales arborists, the crews and the office in that yard.
Managers 6
HR Manager
A tree care HR manager hires the climbers, ground workers and office staff a tree company runs on, and keeps the records behind them.
Marketing Manager
A tree care marketing manager fills the arborists' estimate calendars and the plant health care program with the right customers.
Office Manager
A tree care office manager leads billing, the CSR team and the paperwork each tree job needs before a crew rolls.
Operations Manager
A tree care operations manager turns the week's sold jobs into crew days: who climbs, which bucket truck and chipper go where, when the crane comes, and what moves when wind or rain stops work.
Sales Manager
A tree care sales manager leads the arborists who walk properties and write estimates.
Warehouse / Equipment Manager
A tree care equipment manager keeps the yard's saws, ropes, climbing gear, chippers, stump grinders and trucks safe and ready each morning.
Office and sales 6
Customer Service Representative
When someone phones about a leaning tree, a limb on the roof or storm damage, the tree care customer service representative answers, sorts out what's urgent and books the arborist's estimate visit.
Dispatcher
A tree care dispatcher matches each day's jobs to crews, climbers, bucket trucks, chippers and the occasional crane, then routes them across the service area.
Bookkeeper
A tree care bookkeeper keeps a tree company's ledger, where pruning, removal, grinding and plant health care money all lands.
Inventory Specialist
A tree care inventory specialist keeps the yard stocked with what tree crews wear out: saw chains and bars, chipper knives, stump grinder teeth, rope and rigging hardware, and plant health care products.
Sales Representative
A tree care sales representative, often called a sales arborist or arborist estimator, walks the property with the owner, looks at each tree and writes the proposal.
Rehash Specialist
A tree care rehash specialist phones the people who got an arborist's estimate and never signed, and the plant health care customers who didn't renew.
In the field 3
Apprentice / Groundsman
A tree care apprentice works below the climbers and bucket operators: dragging brush to the chipper, running the lowering rope, bucking wood once trained, and cleaning up the yard.
Arborist / Tree Technician
An arborist or tree technician does the hands-on tree work: climbing or working from a bucket truck to prune, taking trees down in pieces, and treating trees for insects and disease.
Lead Arborist / Tree Specialist
A lead arborist is the senior tree expert in the field.
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