The Davey Tree Expert Company jobs

The people who work at Davey Tree own it. Employees bought the company from the Davey family in 1979, and it has run as an employee-owned business ever since, with more than 12,000 of them across North America as of 2024 and revenue above $1.6 billion. John Davey founded it in 1880 in Kent, Ohio, where the headquarters still sits, and he is remembered as the father of tree surgery.

The history explains the range of the work. Davey incorporated in 1909, a year after founding the Davey Institute of Tree Sciences, which trained arborists in a discipline that barely existed then and still runs today. Residential tree care and lawn services are one part of the business; commercial grounds maintenance and landscaping another; utility vegetation management and line clearance, the work of keeping trees off power lines, is a third and a large one. Davey Resource Group, established in 1995 alongside Commercial Landscape Services, does environmental consulting and resource management for utilities and public agencies. Tree health inspection and treatment runs across all of it. For anyone weighing green-industry employers, the ownership structure is what separates this one, and the company broke ground on a new campus in 2022, announced at the time for a 2025 opening.