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Active has opportunities across Australia, for full-time and part-time employment, and sub-contractors. If you are looking for a team that unites through purpose – Keeping our communities safe and green, supports a green collar culture of continuous learning, education and training to help you realise your potential, that drives positive industry change through leading technology, equipment and practices, and that supports you, your family and the environment through actions such as achieving carbon neutral status, please click the Sign Up or Job Search buttons below. If you Sign Up, we’ll let you know about upcoming positions. The Job search button will let you view our currently advertised positions.

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Benefits at Active

At Active, we are committed to providing a positive and supporting environment. With a 45 year heritage, we’ve consistently delivered on our promises. You will have access to a wide range of benefits in addition a competitive package.

These include:

  • A great team to enjoy and learn from
  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Training and education opportunities
  • Potential to develop your career 
  • Partner programs for savings
  • Community support and donations
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Roles at Active

Active delivers holistic tree and vegetation management founded on our purpose of Keeping our communities safe and green. Our expertise is in the full life cycle management of trees, from design and planning, to execution and maintenance. We work across government and commercial industry sectors.

Types of roles which are available are:

  • Arborists
  • Climbers
  • Chipper Operators
  • EWP Operators
  • Machine Operators
  • Mechanics
  • Fitter & Turners

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Team Member Stories

Active people are bound through a common purpose and lived values that make Active a great place to work.  We work in small teams, our crews, often in remote and beautiful locations and almost always outdoors.

Active supports diversity in our workplace.

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21 Sep

Lauren Privitera

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Lauren Privitera

The tree industry might seem a world away from running public swimming pools, but for Lauren Privitera, the two sectors share some remarkable similarities.

Both are arenas where safety is paramount and both are environments where lives can change in the blink of an eye.

Since 2024, Lauren has served as Active Tree Services HSEQ Advisor, overseeing workplace health and safety in NSW, ACT and QLD.

It’s a job she clearly loves, but working in safety was something she discovered almost by chance after starting out as a swim instructor.

“I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I left school,” Lauren recalls.

“I’d witnessed a child drown and asked myself, ‘What can I do to make a difference?’

“So, I started as a swim teacher, lifeguard and duty manager then worked my way up to health and safety representative before going into safety.”

Lauren went on to become Aquatic Co-ordinator for Blacktown City Council and then took on a job as an Aquatic Risk Officer for Royal Life Saving NSW, auditing pools across NSW, the ACT and Tasmania.

Then, two years ago, an opportunity arose at Active Tree Services. Seeking a new challenge, Lauren threw her hat into the ring and successfully landed the role of HSEQ advisor.

It’s a job which sees her travelling to different sites across NSW, ACT and QLD, checking in with crews and discussing all things safety.

“The tree industry has a different sort of risk,” Lauren says.

“In swimming pools it’s more about risk to the public, but this industry has more high-risk activities for our workers as there’s so much manual handling and machinery.

“I mean our teams can be working 15ft in the air using a chainsaw near powerlines.”

Conceding it was a steep learning curve to enter a whole new industry with new acronyms and different safety challenges, Lauren says she spent the first couple of months listening, learning, and getting to know people.

“I joined Active during a transition in the safety manager role. I was also a female who had never cut a tree, so I went out for those first two months and said, ‘tell me what you do’.”

That approach paid off. Lauren’s willingness to listen rather than tell allowed her to quickly gain an insight into the business.

“I got a lot of calls, and everyone was incredibly helpful,” she says.

“I think the biggest thing was that I soon began to appreciate if they’re not cutting, the business is not making money.

“So my job is to listen, understand the challenges and design a suitable safety response.”

While Lauren lives in Sydney, her job is deliberately mobile. Rather than having a base, she travels from site to site.

One day she might be in Brisbane, another day she is in Tumut, Bathurst, Batemans Bay or the heart of Sydney.

“I try to visit the crews and check in with them, then educate them if something’s not right,” she says.

“Often safety is actually about learning from our mistakes.

“It’s not about catching people out but ensuring we are on the same playing field.

“If there’s an incident, I want people to tell me what happened. That way we can make changes, and my job is to help as much as I can so we can learn together.”

While Lauren might have stepped away from pool safety, she still has a love for the water.

Recently, she re-embraced competitive swimming, clocking up nine personal bests at the nationals competition in Brisbane.

She also swims for charity. Inspired by her nephew who has Cerebral Palsy, Lauren raises funds for the Starlight Children’s Foundation, and Active Tree Services has supported her in this endeavour.

“Every second year I take time out in February to raise funds by swimming 2km a day,” Lauren says.

“But to have a company back me the whole way has been incredible, and Active has been so supportive.

“For every dollar I raise they have doubled it, so where I might previously have made $250, this year I made $4500.”

That level of support is something Lauren genuinely appreciates and says is unique to the Active culture. But so is the willingness to recognise potential, learn and give people a chance.

“I felt really lucky to be given the opportunity at Active,” Lauren says.

“But I also think there are different types of ‘safety’ people in this world.

“And for me, it’s all about putting people first.”

    02 Jul

    Adam Richardson

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    Adam Richardson

    Vegetation Scoper Adam Richardson is about to mark a milestone. He will soon clock up 10 years with Active Tree Services on a contract that encompasses some of the most pristine environments in the country.

    Since it’s beginning back in 2016, Adam has been part of Active Tasmania, a tight-knit team which has grown to look after vegetation management across almost all of the state.

    “I’d previously worked in traffic control with another vegetation management company, so I started in traffic control with Active,” Adam says.

    “Then I was on the chipper for 12 months and thought cutting might be good to do.”

    “So, I was put with an experienced guy doing groundwork and then they chucked me in the EWP bucket and off I went.”

    These days, Adam is a scoper. The job sees him travelling ahead of Active’s cutting crews to identify which trees will need to be cut or removed around Tasmania’s powerline infrastructure.

    “Basically, I follow the powerlines, inspecting property and the roadside, while factoring in growth rates,” he says.

    “If something needs cutting, I note it for the crews.”

    The job offers a mix of independence and customer liaison, and Adam says it’s a role he thoroughly enjoys.

    “I love the fact I’m out there by myself but also meeting new people every day,” he states.

    Adam is based in Hobart but has worked all over Tasmania, including Bruny Island and Southport, which he describes as some of the island’s most picturesque locations.

    His time with Active has also seen him travel interstate, helping out in South Australia and Victoria.

    “I spent 11 months in Victoria cutting in places like Colac, Apollo Bay and Lorne along the Great Ocean Road, which was pretty spectacular,” he recalls.

    Over his time with Active, Adam has witnessed the company’s Tasmanian contract grow and expand.

    “We’ve gone through the negotiations, won additional contracts and been able to keep it since 2016, which is incredible,” he says.

    Along the way, Adam says he’s been grateful for the opportunity to learn new skills and also the camaraderie of a tight-knit team.

    “You’ve just got to show initiative and show you’re willing to try and opportunities will be made available to you,” he says.

    Outside of work, Adam has been married for 12 years, enjoys annual holidays to the Gold Coast and spends his spare time playing golf.

    “If I’m not at work, I’m on the golf course, and it’s not that different to work really as I’m always in the trees!”

    Reflecting on his decade with Active, Adam says the best part has been the variety of experiences and the people he’s had the opportunity to work with.

    “It’s a good bunch of blokes,” he reflects.

    “You can always talk to anyone, management is great, and everyone is on the one team.”

      23 Mar

      Jeremy Casey

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      Jeremy Casey

      For NSW Powerlines manager Jeremy Casey, a good day at work isn’t just about getting it done. It’s about doing the right thing, looking after your team, and delivering what you say you will to the best of your ability.

      For over a decade Jeremy has brought this commitment to his role at Active Tree Services and it’s a philosophy that’s seen him rise through the ranks to manage one of Active’s largest contracts.

      It is also part of the reason Jeremy was recently named the recipient of this year’s Active’s Tree Top award.

      Jeremy initially joined Active as a chipper operator back in 2009. With a child on the way, he was keen to find a job close to home in the Bathurst region and work in the great outdoors.

      Since then, he’s fulfilled almost every role in the business, working as a cutter, EWP operator, leading hand and supervisor before becoming an operations manager on the Transgrid contract in 2022.

      Jeremy explains he was in that role a couple of years before taking on the task of looking after all of Active’s work for NSW Powerlines.

      “A position looking after the NSW Powerlines contract opened up a year and a bit ago and I was asked to step into the role,” he says.

      The NSW Powerlines contract is among Active’s largest, encompassing tree cutting around high voltage powerlines for energy providers Transgrid, Essential Energy, Evoenergy, and Ausgrid in a geographical area that spans almost the entire southern half of New South Wales.

      Based in Bathurst, Jeremy’s main role involves supporting and assisting a large team of field crews working anywhere from the Central West to Sydney and through Canberra to the Victorian border.

      “That’s the way I see this job,” he says.

      “We have a really good team of operations managers, and my role is to assist them in any way they need.”

      Supporting that team is what he most enjoys about the job, but it’s a role that also comes with its challenges too.

      “Probably the biggest challenge is knowing the buck stops with you,” he reflects.

      “You have to be the problem solver and the one with solutions, and I don’t ever want to be the guy that fails.”

      This can-do philosophy was among the reasons Jeremy received Active Tree Services’ most prestigious accolade this year.

      Announced at the annual conference, the Tree Top Award recognises outstanding performers who espouse the core values of the business.

      Candidates are put forward by their peers, and Jeremy was selected from a strong field of over 100 nominees.

      Conceding it was a surprise and an honour, Jeremy says he had no idea he had even been nominated until he heard his name called out.

      “I felt quite proud to be recognised,” Jeremy says.

      “It was just nice to know the amount of work that goes into this job doesn’t go unnoticed.”

      After more than a decade with Active, Jeremy notes many of the reasons he was first drawn to the company still remain.

      “I do love the industry and the environment we get to work in, and I like the way Active is family-owned and they’re just there for you – not just in the workplace,” he says.

      “And I think Active honours its goal to be the good guys. There’s a lot of honesty, we help each other out and we deliver what we say we’ll deliver.”