Assistant Operations Forester

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Date: May 30, 2025

Location: Old Town, ME, US

Company: JM Huber Corporation

Huber Resources Corp. (HRC), a division of J.M. Huber Corporation, combines its decades-long history in timberland management, appraisal, and consulting to provide clients worldwide with the highest level of professional services in the timberland management and forestry consulting sector.  Branded as Huber Resources Corp., our timberland management services have provided full-scope management services on over 1.5 million acres of timberland in the continental United States for over 60 years.  Through acquisitions in 2021 and 2023, our forestry consulting business provides a wide range of appraisal, acquisition due diligence, litigation support, forest modeling, and other consulting services branded as Sewall Forestry & Natural Resource Consulting, which has provided forestry consulting services since 1880.  

Position Summary

Develop and implement district specific operation plan by following the Forest Management Plan & Guidelines. Develop, and administer, timber harvesting, silviculture and roads programs to meet district goals. Develop contract specifications and oversee contract compliance for forest operations to ensure short term and long-term goals are achieved. Understand available wood markets and work with operations team to deliver wood on a schedule to help generate the best returns. Seek to improve business practices and share successes with the team. Work with the management team (e.g.  VP-HRC, Director of Operations, Director of Finance, Operations Manager, GIS Specialist and support staff) to ensure objectives are met or exceeded.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities

  1. Responsible for Environmental Law compliance, including but not limited to Federal, State, and Local environmental protection agencies and local ordinances. 
  2. Determines optimal harvesting sequence to meet goals.
  3. Help with the development and implementation of silvicultural programs (e.g. planting, herbicide, burning, site preparation, pre-commercial thinning, etc.)  
  4. Make sound environmental judgments and decisions regarding all forest operations, including logging operations and road-building activities
  5. Administers operations to ensure contract compliance, monitors contractor performance, and ensures payment for services.  
  6. Develops rolling five-year harvest, silvicultural, and road plan. Planning details to be more specific for an imminent 18-month period. 
  7. Coordinates with Operations Manager to ensure wildlife and ecosystem values are managed appropriately 
  8. Participate in the negotiation of contract logging rates to be competitive in the market while securing a quality independent contractor force.  
  9. Participate in the negotiation of road construction contracts to be competitive in the market while securing a quality independent contractor force.  

 

Specialized/Technical Knowledge or Required Skills

  1. Three years of experience in Land Management.
  2. Understand stand dynamics to allow scheduling of stands to be harvested.  
  3. Use GIS system to facilitate layout of harvesting, silvicultural activities, and road operations. 
  4. Ability to work and communicate in team environment. 
  5. Ability to be self-motivated. 
  6. Computer experience in GIS, GPS, word processing, and spreadsheets. 
  7. Timber inventory and management plan development. 
  8. Silviculture knowledge. 
  9. Harvesting technology. 
  10. Road building and maintenance. 

Education

Bachelors in Forestry

 J.M. Huber Corporation is an EEO employer. Pre-employment drug screening is required.

   

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