Sr Arborist

Sr Arborist

Date: Jun 5, 2026

Location(s): Venice, FL, US, 34292

Company: NextEra Energy

Requisition ID: 95145

Position Specific Description

The Central Maintenance Department within the Power Delivery Business Unit is seeking a Senior Arborist to join their team in Venice, FL. Desired Qualifications:

• Specialized Transmission Vegetation Management Certification (required) to support compliance with transmission line vegetation patrol standards.
• Strong geographical knowledge of the West Region for transmission systems and vegetation conditions.
• In-depth understanding of tree growth rates by species and their impact on required vegetation management clearances for transmission lines.
• Demonstrated experience managing contractor crews in a vegetation management or related environment.

Job Overview

Employees in this position oversee the implementation of business unit vegetation management. This position ensures compliance with all laws and regulations. Employees in this position develop action plans to improve inspection and work performance and quality. Employees in this role drive reliability improvements, increase customer experience and satisfaction and ensure work execution within established guidelines and budgets. Employees respond to elevated customer concerns and make decisions with impact to company brand. Employees in this role respond to customer outages during regular weather and natural disasters.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Audits inspections to ensure federal and state regulatory compliance and directly oversees line clearing activities for the regulated utility as well as NEER and NEET assets
• Coordinates closely with Distribution Control Center (power systems operations) and electrical repair crews for safe and rapid grounding, line clearing and restoration efforts
• Works with and coordinates with elected officials and government leadership to advocate for legislation and programs which enable customers to plant trees away from power lines
• Oversees day-to-day operations for a large workforce including budgetary approvals and process compliance activities
• Resolves customer complaints and inquiries promptly and supports legal requests
• Coordinates with engineering teams to ensure proper clearances and vegetation clearing techniques during pre-construction activities for major work
• Promotes safety consciousness and adherence to OSHA and company safety requirements to achieve an injury free work environment and motivates and develops employees
• Ensures the inspection of all work performed is in accordance with contract scope and specifications
• Designs, schedules, approves, and oversees work scope for all hardening, preventative maintenance, customer trim requests and capital scope work
• Supports reactive work including: regularly occurring outages, high impact outage events, major storm restoration and out of area travel
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED
• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 5+ years
• Valid Driver's License (NON CDL)
• ISA Certified Arborist

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 7+ years
• Leadership Experience: 5+ years
• ISA Certif Arborist Utility Specialist
• Six Sigma Green Belt Certified