Operations Forester

What you’ll do:

• Work with a motivated team of internal stakeholders (foresters, GIS analysts, biometricians, project managers) and regional consulting foresters to plan and execute forest carbon reforestation projects on post-catastrophic wildfire lands.
• Perform site assessments using aerial imagery, pre-fire inventories, public databases, and on the ground data collection methods using automated data collection tools for data management and analysis
• Write forest regeneration prescriptions for forest types throughout the intermountain west, taking into consideration long term survival under changing climatic conditions.
• Perform operational-level training and supervision of contractors and their crews, including as related to site assessment, vegetation management, treeplanting, forest surveying, and cone collections.
• Source forest management contractors and their crews, including the planning and overseeing of hiring events.
• Manage contractor relations including contract signing, pre-work meetings, safety, scheduling, budgeting, production, oversight, and administrative functions like invoicing.
• Interface with landowners on operational issues as they relate to project implementation.
• Plan and direct forest surveys and related studies and prepare reports and recommendations.
• Monitor contract compliance and results of forestry activities to assure adherence to Mast's specifications, and state and federal laws
• Make frequent visits to project sites across Western North America.

What you bring:

• A completed undergraduate degree in forestry, environmental science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience as a practicing field operations forester.
• Operational experience with site assessments necessary for artificial regeneration and/or restoration of forested ecosystems.
• Operational experience of silviculture practices in one or more Western North America forest types
• Operational experience managing heavy machinery in site preparation and biomass operations.
• Comfort with sourcing and organizing forest management crews.
• Understanding of silviculture and forest mensuration.
• Prior experience in post-fire forest management, and ideally regeneration.
• A technical understanding of site planning, site preparation and civil engineering for forest operations.
• Physical capability to work in forested environments and adverse terrain in all weather conditions.
• Operational experience with GIS 
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• The ability to embrace change and modify behavior and plans to effectively achieve goals. Self-motivation, adaptability, flexibility, and change agility are necessary.

Other preferred qualifications:

• M.Sc. or equivalent experience in the realm of applied forestry, forest ecology, biomass, or wildland management
• Licensed Registered Professional Forester or equivalent certification or expertise in Montana and Idaho, and/or California, Oregon, Washington state is preferred, but not required
• A functional understanding of the influences of climate change upon long term forest health and management, seedling viability, and conifer species migration
• A functional understanding of the influences of wildfire upon forest ecosystems
• A functional understanding of seed procurement and processing and nursery seedling production
• A functional understanding of seed biology and seedling ecophysiology
• A functional understanding of biomass projects
• Proficiency in Spanish language