Description
Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business, and as an employee team.
At Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.
Purpose
Liberty is dedicated to ensuring the safety and beauty of our service territory through effective vegetation management. We are looking for a passionate and knowledgeable System Arborist to join our team and help us achieve our goals.
Accountabilities
- Oversee and coordinate Vegetation Management (VM) work all capital projects.
- Coordinate inspections, permitting, procurement, and work implementation that would be necessary for the removal or maintenance of vegetation for construction of new lines or rebuilding existing lines.
- Identify VM work needed to facilitate construction and maintain clearances upon construction completion.
- Read engineering designs to understand the impact of new construction/framing on surrounding vegetation as it relates to compliance and avoidance of vegetation impact on infrastructure
- Communicate with project managers, engineers, and operations during planning, pre-construction, and construction activities to support capital projects.
- Understand utility design standards and be able to offer solutions to vegetation/construction conflicts that arise during the design and project implementation phase.
- Write VM scopes of work for capital construction projects that align with Liberty VM and Industry Standards and Regulations
- Participate in RFP, and contractor selection as needed as VM representative
- Communicate VM standards, specifications, regulations, to project planning group and construction crews
- Provide estimates to perform VM work needed for projects
- Lead VM work bidding and contractor selection process for capex projects
- Participate in business case development for capex planned projects to represent VM department and work cost estimates
- Identify opportunities to improve Liberty's VM capital maintenance strategy and incorporate IVM practices into capital construction projects to improve vegetation conditions around Liberty infrastructure.
- Assit in emergency response (storms/fires) efforts.
- Develop, implement, and monitor area business plan including scheduling, resource planning for capital projects.
- Assist with the development of budget and resource allocation planning for capital projects and emergency response.
- Coordinate work and resources with North and South System Arborists and System Forester.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Forestry, Vegetation Management, Natural Resources Management, or related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in utility arboriculture.
- Required certification: ISA Certified Arborist or Registered Professional Forester
- Preferred certifications: ISA Utility Specialist, ISA Tree Risk Assessment Qualification (TRAQ).
Contact
Liberty
Ontario Canada
www.libertyutilities.com
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