Arboriculturist: Scotland’s Railway (Glasgow)
Key activities
To provide technical arboricultural expertise at locations right across Scotland’s railway. This will include completion of cyclical tree condition inspection surveys and tree work prescriptions, post incident investigations, participation in stakeholder engagement, site meetings, and input to tree management strategies and specifications.
Key accountabilities
- Work as part of a team of Arboriculturists to undertake a range of railway tree and vegetation management surveys and projects
- Undertake and complete cyclical arboricultural tree condition surveys, inspections and site activities
- Apply knowledge of arboriculture, tree defects, pathogens and diseases, and implement appropriate mitigation via effective tree work prescriptions
- Collate, write up and review survey results, data, images and mapping notes
- Update the Network Rail Scotland tree condition survey / database, Ash Dieback Action Plan and autumn season risk assessments
- Compile tree and vegetation management scoping documents in line with relevant Network Rail and industry standards, in a format suitable for the Contracts & Procurement tendering purposes
- Provide arboricultural advice and guidance to railway managers, engineers, operations, seasonal teams and planners
- Liaise with supply chain partners and internal delivery teams on tree specific work prescriptions, site checks, arboricultural best practice and safe tree work practices
- Collaborate with the Ecology team on project surveys and agree appropriate tree and site specific prescriptions or strategies to comply with current legislation and best practice
- Propose innovations to yield site safety, efficiency and train service performance improvements.
Attend meetings and develop effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, statutory bodies, local authorities, lineside neighbours and members of the public.
If you could deliver the above key accountabilities, hold an industry recognised tree condition inspection competency, plus have demonstrable experience of undertaking tree condition surveys and provision of arboricultural advice, ideally for or within a large organisation, Local Authority or linear infrastructure operator, we would like to hear from you!
Please review the full job details and candidate criteria via the Network Rail Careers web portal.
Professional or Technical membership of the Institute of Chartered Foresters or another relevant professional body is desirable.