Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates the activities of workers engaged in removing trees that interfere with electric power lines: Examines work order to determine location of trees to be pruned or felled by trimming crews.

• 2) Reads street and road maps and drives truck to transport crew to work site.

• 3) Inspects electric power lines near trees to be trimmed and secures clearance to work on lines if necessary.

• 4) Directs placement of rigging for hoisting tools to workers in trees and for lowering severed tree limbs to ground.

• 5) Supervises workers in cutting away branches of trees so that remaining tree limbs are at safe distance from electric power lines.

• 6) Orders removal of trees when necessary.

• 7) Explains tree trimming activities to consumers when working on consumers' property.

• 8) Keeps daily work records.

• 9) Occasionally trims trees.

• 10) Performs other duties as described under SUPERVISOR Master Title.