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➡️ Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow, and succeed – today and into tomorrow

➡️ You will be a part of growing UK Landscape and Arboriculture team of over 70 professionals

➡️ As a Principal Arboriculturist🌳, you’ll be responsible for the continuing implementation of arboriculture advice and surveys within the Landscape and Arboricultural team across a wide range of project stages and types reporting to the Associate Director of arboriculture

➡️ This is an opportunity to make a real difference and bring expertise to this innovative and exciting team

What’s in it for You?

🌍 Collaboration at scale — work alongside global experts within diverse, multidisciplinary teams

😍 A values-led culture — be part of an organisation that champions inclusion, innovation, and going beyond

🚀 Career progression — access leadership development, technical communities, and knowledge networks

📈 Lead advisory projects with real-world impact

We offer

💷 Competitive salary: We offer compensation that reflects your skills and experience

🏖️ 24 days holiday + option to buy a further 10 days

👵 Robust Pension Contributions: We offer enhanced pension contributions up to 10% to secure your future

⚕️ Comprehensive Health Coverage: Single medical cover and Digital GP service, with options to add your partner and family

👶 Family Planning Support: Access to fertility healthcare and family planning services

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Enhanced Parental Leave: Enjoy enhanced parental leave pay and free membership to employee assistance and parental programs

4️⃣ Life assurance at 4x your salary

♿ Income Protection: Financial security in case of long-term illness or injury

😄 Wellbeing Hub: Free access to wellbeing apps like Calm and Daily Burn

💼 Professional Development: We cover professional membership fees and provide continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities

😇 Community Engagement: Participate in charity matched-funding, paid volunteering time, and charitable donations

Locations: UK wide

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

Grade: Principal Arboriculturist

In this role, you will:

➡️ Undertake tree surveys in relation to planning and development and provide technical arboricultural solutions

➡️ Undertake Veteran tree surveys and give advice

➡️ Support the wider arboricultural team on a national scale

➡️ Ensuring the delivery of comprehensive arboricultural reports, including Arboricultural Impact Assessments and Arboricultural Method Statements within tight time-frames to meet client requirements

➡️ Work with a range of disciplines within Jacobs and with outside consultants

➡️ Contribute new innovative ideas, materials, research and learnings to the team, as part of your management and project work

➡️ Work with arboricultural sub-contractors as part of the arboricultural offering

✅ A level 4-6 QCF or equivalent arboriculturist qualification, with previous practical experience as an arboricultural consultant

✅ Have an in depth understanding of BS 5837:2012 and BS3998: 2010 and Knowledge of Streetworks UK: National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) Volume 4

✅ Understanding of National Planning Policy Framework (Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government, 2014) in relation to trees

✅ Experience of working on large scale infrastructure projects and within a multi disciplinary environment

✅ Familiarity with CAD and digital survey hardware and software, including GIS and experience of MS Word and Excel required

✅ High standard of report writing skills

✅ Site visits and survey work forms part of the role, sometimes in more remote locations, therefore a driving licence is essential for this role

❓ READY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Apply NOW!

🏙️ Jacobs operates a hybrid work environment and a 40 hour working week as standard.

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We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.

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