Arboriculture manager

Job description

Company Description Oxleas Tree Care is a professional arboriculture and tree management company serving clients across the London Area, United Kingdom. The team focuses on safe, sustainable tree care,

Arboriculture Manager – Job Description

Role Purpose

The successful candidate will lead the safe, efficient and sustainable management of the business’s Arboriculture operations. The role combines hands-on arboriculture work with people leadership, contract management, compliance and excellent customer service skills.

The postholder will help deliver tree work projects across the South-East and London, overseeing both in-house teams and contractors to ensure work meets industry standards, relevant legislation and applicable health and safety requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advice, information and quotations to both commercial and domestic clients.

• Manage, motivate and lead a team of Arborists, ensuring work meets high standards (including BS3998) and is delivered safely and efficiently.

• Perform quality and safety audits on both in-house and sub-contractor teams.

• Carry out regular 1-1s with arborists, offering advice and guidance.

• Support operational needs by carrying out tree work operations with a team of Arborists when required.

• Establish a positive safety culture so employees understand safe systems of work and are appropriately trained and equipped.

• Ensure compliance with health and safety requirements (risk assessments, method statements, equipment inspections, work-at-height controls, incident reporting).

• Apply relevant legislation and guidance on occupiers’ liability, tree protection, highways, planning, conservation areas, statutory wildlife protection and workplace safety.

• Investigate incidents, complaints and service failures, identify root causes and implement corrective action.

• Support business planning (resource requirements, equipment replacement, recruitment, training and investment priorities).

• Undertake other duties reasonably consistent with the scope and seniority of the role.

Person Specification

• Education: Ideally qualifications in Arboriculture to Level 4 or above (desirable), other relevant operational certificates, or a strong understanding of NPTC/LANTRA competence requirements.

• Experience: Significant experience in arboricultural operations, risk management and the specification or supervision of tree works.

• Leadership: Demonstrable experience managing employees, contractors, workloads and service standards.

• Technical knowledge: Strong knowledge of tree biology, structural defects, pests and diseases, tree-risk principles, pruning, planting, removals and establishment care.

• Health and Safety: Practical knowledge of risk assessment, safe systems of work, contractor control, work at height, chainsaw operations, rigging and relevant workplace safety requirements.

• Law and Regulation: Working knowledge of relevant UK arboricultural, planning, environmental, wildlife, highway and health and safety requirements.

• Commercial capability: Experience managing budgets, quotations, contracts, procurement or supplier performance.

• Digital Skills: Ability to use Microsoft Office packages; experience with CRM systems and app-based quotation and reporting systems.

• Mobility: Ability to travel between sites and work outdoors in varying conditions; a valid driving licence (driving is essential to the post).

• Communication: Ability to explain complex or sensitive decisions to staff, contractors and customers.

Working Conditions

Regular site visits, including access to uneven terrain, highways, construction sites and other commercial/domestic locations. The postholder may occasionally need to work outside normal hours in response to emergencies, severe weather or operational requirements.

Benefits

• Company vehicle

• Handwritten additions: Pension and 23 Holiday + Bank Holiday.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London Area

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

09-09-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English