DescriptionWho you are: You are highly professional with even higher ethical standards that guide your work. You have 5 or more years' experience working in a broad range of forest management operations including THP layout, advanced road design, and harvest systems application. You have professional level California forestry experience and are thoroughly familiar with the California Forest Practice Rules, Fish and Wildlife regulations, and California Water Quality issues and mandates. You have the required bachelor's degree in Forest Management, Natural Resources Management or the equivalent knowledge. A valid California Registered Professional Forester (RPF) license is required. In addition, you have the proven ability to be a leader to a strong team of professionals.
What the job is: As the District Forester, you are the team leader responsible for overseeing the design, preparation, and permitting of all Timber Harvest Plans within your assigned District. This provides operational flexibility to achieve annual and longer-range timber harvest goals.
An example of your responsibilities:
- Directly supervises 4 to 5 employees.
- Assures a safe workplace. Takes personal initiative to participate in the Company's safety program and promotes active employee participation in the program.
- This position has the responsibility to ensure that the Company is making the best management decisions for each acre within their assigned District.
- This position is a team leader and responsible for overseeing the design, location, development, and supervision of THPs within their District through all stages of preparation.
- District Foresters will coordinate with Operations and Conservation Planning on all projects within their assigned district.
- Provides guidance to RPFs in the preparation, review and implementation of THPs in compliance with State and Federal regulations, Company landscape plans and are of the highest standard and quality.
- Supervises the district staff to ensure that current forest engineering principles are utilized in road location and harvest unit layout to provide logging operations with the most productive/least cost harvest systems with the least environmental impact.
- District Foresters will prepare and submit one or more THPs each year.
- Guides and instructs RPFs and Foresters in the assessment of existing conditions to assure the development of efficient, logical, and complete THPs.
- Ensures that RPFs assigned to THPs are accomplishing all the required tasks through THP completion or longer as needed.
- Assures that timber operations proposed in THPs comply with Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®) standards and California Forest Practice Rules.
- Identifies THP layout priorities and assures timely THP approval to meet current and future harvest goals without operational delays.
- Provides equipment, supplies and training needed by staff to successfully complete their assigned work. Ensures that trucks are assigned to staff and staff maintains the assigned trucks, and that ATVs are available and maintained.
Where you'll work: You will work on 400,000 acres of Green Diamond's privately held forest property, located in Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendocino counties along the Northern California coast. Our offices are nestled in the redwood forest near the Pacific Ocean.
Compensation: Annual Salary Range: $96,416 - $144,620 per year. The pay range listed is just one component of Green Diamond's total compensation package. Other rewards include eligibility to receive a company-wide annual financial performance bonus, and the opportunity to receive an individual performance-based bonus, candidate referral bonuses, and spot bonuses.
In addition, Green Diamond offers a generous benefit package to include medical/vision and dental, life and disability insurance, 401(k) plan with match and profit sharing. Paid time off includes 9 designated and up to 2 personal holidays, 10 vacation days, 10 sick days, 30 days parental leave, 3 days bereavement, an extra 2 days bereavement unpaid, jury duty, 1 volunteer day, and 5 days family care. Also provided is a company vehicle for business use. More information about benefits can be viewed on our website: www.greendiamond.com/people/career-opportunities
Who Green Diamond is: We grow and nurture forests, a renewable resource to build homes, schools, and household necessities, harnessing carbon every single day we operate. We're a 5th generation, family-owned company that is guided by our values of environmental stewardship and supporting our local communities. We do what's right, even when it is the harder path to follow. We focus on the health and safety of our people first - by taking care of all our resources, we plan to be here for another 130 years.
