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Arboriculture vacancies: working with and for trees and woodland, includes woodland creation, tree planting schemes and tree nursery and orchards.

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Temporary Habitats Operative (Seasonal) - Keystone Environmental

Location: Tetbury (UK-wide travel required)

Do you enjoy working outdoors and want to play a hands-on role in protecting and enhancing the natural environment? Working alongside experienced colleagues, you'll help deliver a wide range of ecological and environmental projects. Duties include habitat creation and restoration, vegetation clearance, planting, seeding, ecological fencing, ground preparation and the construction and maintenance of habitat features. You'll also work in environmentally sensitive locations, helping ensure projects are completed safely, efficiently and to the highest standards.

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  • Closing Date: 19/08/2026
  • Location: Tetbury
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 09/07/2026

ACT Rainforest Squad Operative - Argyll & The Isles Coast & Countryside Trust

Location: Sites across Argyll

Hours: 35 hours per week

Salary: £25,000 - £29,000 p/a (depending on experience)

Are you an experienced, certified chainsaw operative? Are you ready for an opportunity to help Save Argyll’s Rainforest?

Join our Rainforest team, where we are working with communities and landowners to protect, restore, and expand the rainforests of Argyll. With support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the ACT Rainforest Squad are responsible for practical restoration, expansion and maintenance projects in Argyll.

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  • Closing Date: 24/07/2026
  • Location: Argyll & Bute
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 08/07/2026

Assistant Arboricultural Consultant - Maydencroft

Starting salary of between £29,000 and £32,000 per annum, dependent upon candidate experience.

Standard working hours are 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with flexible start and finish times available by agreement.

Permanent (subject to successful completion of a six-month probation period)

The position will be largely remote, with occasional working from our regional offices in Dorney, near Windsor, and Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire.

Maydencroft is looking for an Assistant Arboricultural Consultant to primarily support the delivery of tree safety inspections across a portfolio of utility sites in the Thames Valley region. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong arboricultural background who is looking to develop their consultancy career. The role is primarily field-based, with occasional attendance at our regional offices, and would suit someone moving from practical arboriculture, tree surveying or a junior consultancy role.

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  • Closing Date: 14/08/2026
  • Location: Remote, Letchworth, Windsor
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 07/07/2026

Arboricultural Consultant - Maydencroft

Starting salary of between £35,000 and £41,000 per annum, dependent upon candidate experience, qualifications and demonstrable consultancy capability.

Standard working hours are 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with flexible start and finish times available by agreement.

Permanent (subject to successful completion of a six-month probation period)

The position can be based from either One Garden City, Letchworth Garden City, Hertfordshire, SG6 3BF, or Pigeon House Farm, Dorney, Windsor, SL4 6QB, with flexible working arrangements available depending on project requirements.

Maydencroft is looking for an Arboricultural Consultant to join our growing consultancy team in the Southeast. This varied role will cover tree safety inspections, BS 5837 surveys and reports, detailed tree condition assessments and client advisory work across commercial, public sector, utility, private estate and charity clients. The role would suit a confident, commercially aware consultant who enjoys fieldwork, technical reporting, client liaison and practical arboricultural problem-solving.

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  • Closing Date: 14/08/2026
  • Location: Letchworth Garden City or Dorney, Windsor
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 07/07/2026

Estate Worker - National Trust for Scotland

Hours: 40 Hours Per Week

Location: Culzean Castle and Country Park, Maybole, South Ayrshire, KA19 8LE

Salary range: £28,562 per annum

This job exists in order to ensure that the grounds and policies of Culzean Castle are managed and maintained as an internationally recognised landscape of outstanding historical importance and contributes to the property’s overall conservation and development, and its enjoyment by visitors.

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  • Closing Date: 19/07/2026
  • Location: Culzean Castle and Country Park, Maybole, South Ayrshire, KA19 8LE
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 03/07/2026

Community Engagement Officer - Tree Aftercare and Planting Service - Oxfordshire County Council

£38,220 - £40,777

Full time, 37 hours per week

Fixed term contract until March 2028

Sutton Lane, Sutton, Witney, OX29 5RD

As our new Community Engagement Officer - Tree Aftercare and Planting Service (TAPS), you'll take the lead in developing and growing the community-facing side of one of Oxfordshire's most exciting environmental programmes. You'll have the opportunity to shape and develop the Tree Guardian programme, build relationships with communities across the county and create innovative ways for people to contribute to how and where we plant trees, caring for them and improving their local environment.

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  • Closing Date: 02/08/2026
  • Location: Sutton Lane, Sutton, Witney, OX29 5RD
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 02/07/2026

Arboricultural Officer x2 - Bristol City Council

Salary: BG11: £39,862 - £41,771

1x Full Time, Permanent

1x Part Time - 14.8 hrs per week, Fixed Term

Location: Bower Ashton Depot, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol BS3 2JT

As part of an experienced and well-established team you will be responsible for the risk management of Bristol City Council’s tree population within parks, open spaces and highways. You will provide expert and specialist arboricultural services, including providing advice to other Council departments and external partners, ensuring technical information is accessible to non-specialist audiences. You will be responsible for consultation and engagement processes relating to tree management activities.

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  • Closing Date: 31/07/2026
  • Location: Bower Ashton Depot, Kennel Lodge Road, Bristol BS3 2JT
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 01/07/2026

Arboriculturist - Forestart Ltd

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Arboriculturist to support tree work operations, seed collection, propagation, and tree establishment while supervising teams to ensure work is completed safely, efficiently, and in full compliance with legislation, industry standards, and company procedures.

The successful candidate will source, collect, process, and store high-quality tree seed, maintaining accurate records to ensure full traceability and compliance with FRM regulations.

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  • Closing Date: 26/07/2026
  • Location: Shrewsbury, Hadnall
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 26/06/2026

Outreach Manager – South West - Woodland Trust

Salary: £44,401.50 per annum

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Location: Homebased

The Woodland Trust is looking for an Outreach Manager to join our South West team. The Outreach Manager leads the Trust’s outreach work in Southwest England, providing expert advice on woodland creation, management and restoration to landowners, organisations and stakeholders across the region, in support if the Woodland Trust’s conservation aims. They lead, inspire and manage the South West Outreach Team, ensuring advice is appropriate, effective and focused for delivering impact and strategic goals.

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  • Closing Date: 26/07/2026
  • Location: Homebased
  • Level: Management
  • Posted: 25/06/2026

New National Forests Project Manager - The National Forest

Salary of £43,500 - £48,575

Moira, DE12 (Hybrid Working Available)

This is a defining moment for the National Forest, with a renewed Vision to harness the transformative power of forests to restore nature, connect communities, and drive enterprise for a positive future. Over 30 years, this 200 square mile landscape has been reshaped, more than 10 million trees planted, and forest cover increased from 6% to 26%. Now, we are ready to build on this success within the National Forest itself, enabling three new national forests and championing a forest network for England.

We are looking for a Project Manager to join us to take forward this work on new national forests. This role is full-time, working 37 hours per week, for a fixed-term contract to 31 March 2031, with potential for extension depending on funding.

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  • Closing Date: 20/07/2026
  • Location: Moira, DE12 (Hybrid Working Available)
  • Level: Management
  • Posted: 24/06/2026

River Restoration Team Operative - Westcountry Rivers Trust

Contract: Fixed Term (6-9 Months) / Hours: Fulltime (37.5 hours)

Location: Westcountry Rivers Trust’s office is in Stoke Climsland and whilst we have adopted hybrid working there is an expectation to work from the office on a regular basis and to travel to sites across the delivery area.

The starting salary for this role is £26,500.00 - £28,700.00 per annum (dependent on experience)

The River Restoration Team Operative plays a key role in supporting the delivery of practical environmental projects across the organisation. Working collaboratively with the Operations Team and other departments at WRT, the postholder will contribute to the delivery of a broad range of catchment management activities that support the charity’s mission to protect and enhance freshwater environments.

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  • Closing Date: 19/07/2026
  • Location: Stoke Climsland
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 12/06/2026

Forester - Cowdray Estate

Salary: £32,000

Contract: Full-time

Location: Midhurst, West Sussex

Cowdray Estate is seeking a skilled and motivated Forester to join our dedicated Forestry team. You’ll play a key role in delivering a wide range of forest management and maintenance activities across more than 2,000 hectares of beautifully managed woodland.

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  • Delete Date: 22/07/2026
  • Location: Midhurst
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 10/06/2026

Outreach Adviser - Agroforestry East Anglia - Woodland Trust

Salary: £35,594 Per Annum

Contract Type: Full Time

Location: East Anglia - particular focus on the East Anglian Claylands

The Woodland Trust is looking for an Agroforestry Woodland Advisor for the East Anglian Clayland’s. This role will assist with our priority landscape delivery within East Anglia, creating the strategy and plans to deliver the Woodland Trust objectives (protect, create, restore goals) across the East Anglian Claylands (EAC).

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  • Closing Date: 19/07/2026 updated
  • Location: East Anglia - particular focus on the East Anglian Claylands
  • Level: Main
  • Posted: 26/05/2026

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