The tasks below cover the range of things we do. We are a small organisation, and our work varies a little from year to year so while we hope to involve the trainee in all of the tasks we cannot guarantee that. Some work may require formal training before the trainee can do them. The work is in its nature physically demanding as it involves being outdoors in all weather and significant lifting and carrying.

• Coppicing
  Assisting the team with coppicing of LCW managed woodland.
  Felling coppice in a safe and efficient manner and creating piles to be processed into products.
  Creating a number of different products to a required standard (see products list on our website for reference).
  Assisting the team on volunteer days as needed.
  Assisting with fencing the coupes to protect from deer
  browsing.
• Hedge Laying
  Assisting members on hedge laying tasks.; siding up, laying and binding.
• Firewood Processing
  Processing firewood including sawing, splitting and transporting logs.
• Firewood Extraction
  Assisting the team to extract firewood from LCW managed woodland and partnered organisations such as Leeds Tree
  Care.
  Moving firewood with truck and trailer safely and efficiently to LCW Wood yard.
• Delivering products to customers
  Filling fire wood sacks and delivering to customers.
  Driving LCW truck or assisting driver with deliveries (i.e. navigation).
  Liaise with comms team about product requirements and logistics
•  Charcoal making
  Assisting the team with charcoaling at various locations.
  Preparing timber for charcoal kilns.
  Lighting and supervision of kilns.
  Grading and filling charcoal bags.
  Making deliveries to charcoal customers
• Workshop delivery
  Assist with the delivery of training or therapeutic workshops as and when required.
• Administration
  Assisting with the routine running of the business, ensuring we are aware of availability and participating in business
  discussions. There will be room to discuss this involvement.

Essential

• Experience spending time outside in all weathers
• Experience using hand tools of some description
• Reasonable level of physical fitness
• Works well independently and as part of a team
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing work plans
• Positive mental attitude to problem solving
• Good organisational skills
• Enthusiasm to learn about coppicing
• Enthusiasm to learn about sustainable woodland management
• Holds full UK driving licence

Desirable

• Access to a vehicle for commuting
• Some experience using hand tools with wood
• Some experience of processing firewood
• Experience of driving off road and/or towing a trailer
• Experience leading groups of volunteers
• Knowledge of conservation and woodland management
• Experience of using IT packages such as Gmail, google drive

Please be aware this job is part of our Forestry Roots traineeship which is charitably funded and all applicants must fulfil the below eligibility criteria:

•  Aged 18-30 years old
• Faced a barrier to education or employment
• Not currently gainfully employed, or working within the forestry or arboriculture sector

Please be aware you will need to be available to start work between the 1 August and 31 September. 

Early submission is encouraged as we reserve the right to close these vacancies early if we receive a high volume of applications.