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Senior Forestry Specialist (Field Work)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Senior Forestry Specialist for their Spokane, Washington location. In this role you will provide assistance and services for the Chief Forester across our client’s service territory of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, Northern Nevada, Northern California, and Western Wyoming. This assignment involves extended overnight travel (up to 75% out of town) throughout the service area. The ideal candidate for the Senior Forestry Specialist position has a mixture of educational and work experience needed to fulfil the responsibilities of the position as described below, including the ability to manage multiple complex tasks and competing needs under constrained timelines, the ability to understand and compose scopes of work, statements of work and technical specifications for forestry projects, the ability to analyze information, evaluate results and make sound recommendations and provide solutions to complex problems, as well as the ability to interpret potential hazards and react appropriately in emergency situations.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think this position aligns well with your professional experience, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior Forestry Specialist:
Requirements/Qualification for Senior Forestry Specialist:
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
AG/BH14403
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Senior Forestry Specialist for their Spokane, Washington location. In this role you will provide assistance and services for the Chief Forester across our client’s service territory of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, Northern Nevada, Northern California, and Western Wyoming. This assignment involves extended overnight travel (up to 75% out of town) throughout the service area. The ideal candidate for the Senior Forestry Specialist position has a mixture of educational and work experience needed to fulfil the responsibilities of the position as described below, including the ability to manage multiple complex tasks and competing needs under constrained timelines, the ability to understand and compose scopes of work, statements of work and technical specifications for forestry projects, the ability to analyze information, evaluate results and make sound recommendations and provide solutions to complex problems, as well as the ability to interpret potential hazards and react appropriately in emergency situations.
This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you think this position aligns well with your professional experience, we want to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Senior Forestry Specialist:
- Provide information tracking of company-owned timber and timber stands.
- Perform collection of forestry related data such as diameter, height, volume, percent defect, form factor, disease, root rot, logging, yarding and hauling costs, etc. for construction projects.
- Provide data entry, collect, process, and analyze field data in appropriate organizational and industry standard database(s).
- Perform onsite inspection and oversight of timber and brush removal activity.
- Assist the Chief Forester in managing Timber, Brush and Undesirable Plant Studies and clearing activities.
- Assist the Chief Forester in marketing timber resources cleared from rights-of-ways or on U.S. Government property.
- Draft scopes of work, statements of work and technical specifications for forestry-related projects.
- Collaborate, attend, participate and coordinate with design and/or planning engineers, project managers, internal managers, and stakeholders to develop work products, such as timber appraisals that are reflective of the project scope on capital projects assigned to the position.
- Consult with clients, vendors, personnel in other departments or construction foremen to discuss and formulate their work products, such as timber appraisals.
- Work with appropriate manager / personnel to facilitate resolution of conflicting priorities and requirements, as well as conflicting positions in order to build consensus among clients and stakeholders.
- Prepare land rights and access road work products, such as timber appraisals to be used by land acquisition personnel and management for planning, organizing and scheduling work.
- Assess cost effectiveness of products, projects, or services, tracking actual costs relative to bids as the project develops.
- Develop a system for cost monitoring and reporting of project completion procedures.
- Provide GIS/GPS/eGis/Photogrammetry/data collection support as needed.
- Mark documents and maintain filing system(s), files, emails, and records in accordance with compliance requirements.
Requirements/Qualification for Senior Forestry Specialist:
- A Bachelor’s degree in a Forestry-related field such as: Geography, Natural Resources, or Environmental planning is preferred.
- 6 years of experience is required with an applicable Bachelor’s degree.
- 8 years of experience is required with an applicable Associate’s degree.
- 10 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.
- Experience must include forestry and forestry production, engineering, or natural resource experience, and must incorporate a diversified knowledge of natural resource principles and practical experience.
- Professional forestry practices and procedures as they pertain to cruising, valuation, log scaling and forest management
- Ability to operate and maintain forestry related mensuration and data collecting equipment such as analog or digital Relascopes, Laser ranger finders, GPS and GIS data collecting / processing instruments and associated software along with other related forestry tools (both electronic and mechanical)
- Familiarity with operation of electronic data collection systems and processes; ability to download and upload data; ability to process data files on computer and mobile field units
- Familiarity with the operation of electronic data collection systems such as ArcGIS Online (AGOL) and mobile field applications such as Collector; ability to download and upload data; ability to process data files on computer and mobile field units is required; ability to access and manipulate information in Geographic Information Systems.
- Familiarity with the operation and maintenance of forestry related navigation and mensuration tools such as topographic maps, aerial photos, compass, Relascope, radio, laser hypsometer/rangefinder, GPS & mobile data collection devices.
- Experience using Land information systems (PLSS, real property concepts, land use classes)
- Timber harvest and marketing experience
- Experience with Microsoft Office Suite software, such as MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Windows Explorer
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
AG/BH14403
Job ID: 14403