Tree Inspector

Role Responsibility

Kent is the largest county in the UK with 1.68 million residents and a workforce of over 821,600 people. With bustling traditional towns, picturesque villages and peaceful landscapes, the Garden of England is the perfect place to live, work and play.

An exciting career opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified and experienced Arboricultural Professional to play a key role within the Highways & Transportation’s Soft Landscape Team.

This role is fundamental in supporting the audit and maintenance of Kent’s 500,000 plus highway trees. Working with a diverse tree demographic this role will allow the post holder to directly influence and shape the future treescape of Kent through our ongoing maintenance programs and urban tree planting schemes.

The role of Tree Inspector will cover all aspects of highway tree management, including surveying street trees, specifying, and overseeing the planting of new trees, detailing maintenance works, scheduling of programmed maintenance, supervision of arboricultural contractors and providing excellent customer service.

You will have a strong background in either technical or practical arboriculture and experience of applying this knowledge in a diverse range of situations, you may have experience within a Local Authority environment. 

Within Kent we value innovation and the use of technology to help us make key decisions about the management of our trees, striving for efficient, sustainable, and innovative ways of effectively managing them so you will need to demonstrate good computer literacy skills and have a good understanding of data capture requirements in the field.

Training will be provided to the successful applicant on all of our processes, in addition to a commitment to provide ongoing training and supported continuous professional development in arboriculture and related subjects.

The post comes with the advantages of 29 days holiday (increasing to 30 days holiday after 5 years) + public holidays, flexible working hours, hybrid working, an excellent local government pension scheme, sickness provision, childcare voucher scheme, staff discount scheme and support with professional development.

This role is subject to holding a Full UK Driving Licence – The Council is committed to making reasonable adjustments so whilst this job requires the jobholder to drive your application will still be considered if you are unable to drive due to a disability.

This post is considered by KCC to be a customer-facing position. The Council therefore has a statutory duty under Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) to ensure that post holders have a command of spoken English/Welsh sufficient for the effective performance of the job requirements. The appropriate standards are set out in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.

Closing date for applications is 31st December 2023

Contact Details

For further information, please contact:

Dan Kemsley - Arboriculture Manager - 03000 414541 Mobile: 07786191566

About the Company

KCC is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the county's working residents, encouraging applications from people of all ages, abilities, genders, sexual orientations, ethnic backgrounds and faiths, and aspires to create an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves at work.

Please note – if you are interested, please apply as soon as possible as the closing date for this advert may be earlier than stated should a number of suitably qualified candidates apply.