EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

• Organisation: Living Solutions
• Salary: £18,000 – £20,000
• Salary info: Monday – Friday
• Job type: Forestry Contracting/Apprentice Team Leader
• Status: Full time
• Closing date: 27/03/2015
• Location: Fife
• Website: http://://www.living-solutions.org

Role:

We are seeking a highly experienced forester who has the ability to lead a team of young apprentices, carrying out forestry contract work such as; selective felling, dealing with wind-blow, timber extraction, chemical spraying and planting.

You will have excellent interpersonal and leadership skills and the ability to help price jobs and manage the health & safety of the team.

Essential skills & qualifications

• Relevant NPTC qualifications in the use of a chainsaw (small, medium and windblown trees), powered pole pruner, brush-cutters and trimmers and wood-chippers
• Leadership skills
• First aid certificate
• Full clean driving licence
• PA1 &PA6w

Desirable

• FISA supervisor update training
• Assisted fell
• FMO licence
• Clearing Saw
• Train the Trainer

Organisation profile:

Living Solutions is an environmental charity based in Fife, which operates as a social enterprise; i.e. carrying out paid work in order to generate an income for the organisation so it can further its social aims. These aims are: To conserve & protect the natural environment. To help people out of poverty and into worthwhile employment. To design and build affordable & sustainable housing.

Application notes:

How to apply: send a CV and covering letter (post or e-mail) to:

Alice Berry

Living Solutions

Unit 31 Thistle Industrial Estate

Cowdenbeath

Fife

KY4 8LP

Tel: 0845 2220418

E-mail:  livingsolutionsjobs@yahoo.co.uk

Web address: www.living-solutions.org