Student Career Series with SCD 2022 Partner: Asplundh

TCIA Podcast

On this episode of the podcast, we are joined by Kieran Hunt, Stephen Hilbert, and Geoff Kempter of Asplundh, to discuss utility arboriculture.
Asplundh is an international, family-owned company that has specialized in safe, efficient and cost-effective vegetation management since 1928. As a full-service utility contractor, Asplundh performs scheduled and emergency tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, and integrated vegetation management with herbicides. Company employees are encouraged to take advantage of ongoing training, which includes a rigorous best-in-industry curriculum on safety, arboriculture and herbicide application. In addition to vegetation management, Asplundh has a division of infrastructure service companies, Asplundh Infrastructure Group, which provides design, construction, maintenance and other engineering services to utilities, municipalities, government agencies, departments of transportation, telecommunication companies and developers. Asplundh employs more than 34,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.