Forestry Technician

Stella-Jones•Brierfield, AL

About The Position

Stella-Jones is a leading manufacturer of essential infrastructure products focused on serving utilities and railroads, as well as supplying big box home improvement stores across North America. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada and publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Stella-Jones operates a vast network of facilities that employs more than 3,000 employees across the United States and Canada. Built on strong foundations with a coast-to-coast reach, we offer real opportunities for career success and community impact. We are seeking a qualified Forestry Technician who will assist the Forester-Buyer in providing raw material to the production yard to meet production targets. This role performs technical forestry duties including pole marking, timber cruising, and flagging boundary lines. Conducts routine logging inspections to ensure proper harvesting specifications. This position will cover specified regions in Central/Eastern Alabama. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Requirements

Education: Forestry Technical Associate Degree or related field preferred; or two years' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience: 2-4 years' timber cruising and pole marking experience
License/Certification: Driver’s License
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to work independently or as part of the team
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Suite

Responsibilities

Provides a continuous monthly supply of poles to accomplish above-allocated annual production requirements.
Verifies quantity and quality of materials received.
Supervises manufacturing of poles to ensure quality control and directs sizes toward company needs.
Contacts and follows up on any open market producers that have material fitting production needs.
Responds to and performs on special market requirements for poles and piling, as well as specialized production of masts, spars, and other material for lathe turning.
Inspects and evaluates potential timber sales and follows up with successful purchasers for possible pole production.
Maintains contacts in the industry and related areas to develop information regarding future pole production potentials and market information on poles, piling, and other products. Reports findings on a regular basis.
Provides a monthly estimate of pole volume to be produced by each individual or job.
Participates and contribute to company safety program.
Performs other related duties as assigned.