Forest Harvesting Manager

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As a Forest Harvesting Manager, you will be expected to carry out the following duties for North South Timber Harvesting Ltd

• Liaising daily with company managers on all active site Harvesting operations and conditions
• Implementing all relevant health and safety procedures for harvesting operations to take place.
• Ensuring all technology solutions are being implemented correctly by all operators on site.
• Provide weekly reviews and updates on harvesting production reports.
• Weekly progress reports on Timber movements from roadside.
• Monthly reports on Biomass stock volumes per Harvesting site
• Client liaison to update on progress and deal with requests.
• Ensure all Biomass Harvesting techniques are being implemented by all company operators on harvesting site while harvesting operations are in progress.
• Ensure all fellow operators are implementing the IT systems correctly on their machines.
• Ensure that all harvesting and forwarding equipment on sites are maintained to an extremely high standard.
• Ensure Daily harvesting targets are being achieved.

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of the forestry industry from a harvesting production perspective
• Experience in Harvesting Thinning and clearfell Projects
• Experience in using Ponsse, John Deere, Komatsu, Tigercat harvesting units and IT systems.
• Performance driven.
• Must be mechanically minded.
• Ideal candidate will have also acquired some international experience in harvesting.