Title: Intermediate Forestry Technician
Department: Lil’wat Forestry Ventures (LFV)
Status: Full-Time, Fixed term (End date May 9, 2025) Potential for Contract Extension
Wage: $35.00 to $42.00 per hour
Pay Grid: Supervisor
Reporting to: Community Relations and Forestry Manager
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Summary of Duties:
Under the direction of the Community Relations and Forestry Manager, the Intermediate Forestry Technician is responsible for developing, executing and monitoring Forestry projects.
Key Deliverables and Expectations:
- Lead and support forestry crews to complete project assignments provided in forestry and silviculture.
- Ensure crews are working efficiently, effectively, and safely, and monitor project performance.
- Efficiently navigate offroad/bush terrain on foot and using off-road vehicles.
- Oversee the operation and maintenance of crew vehicles and equipment by ensuring compliance with safety standards, training procedures and local laws.
- Review and submit timesheets, and other safety reports.
- Ensures Forestry Crews maintain and comply with the BC Forest Safety Council “SAFE Certification” program by completing and filing all required documents.
- Assist with truck inspection, refueling trucks and maintaining other LFV equipment including ETVs, UTVs and chippers.
- Post harvest assessment to ensure project meets LFV standards
- Develop silviculture planning for upcoming season:
o Planting/Brushing/Surveys planning-maps, contracts, budgets
- Development of Silviculture contracts
- Supervision of Silviculture contractors, including planting, surveys, and brushing
- Perform daily forestry and silviculture tasks like running chainsaws, tree planting, running brush saws, and supporting firefighting efforts.
- Responsible for fuel management, cutting trees, clearing debris, digging trenches, and pumping water on burning areas to fight forest fires.
- Maintain firefighting equipment.
- Review potential prescribed burning blocks for current harvest.
- Oversee work projects founded by both Provincial and/or Federal Funding Sources.
- Enter Silviculture reports into the land management data.
- Work with Lands and Resources collaboratively on field reviews.
- Assist in the engineering and review of planned harvest blocks.
- Assist in the supervision of forest harvesting and road building contractors
- Perform other related duties as requested.
Experience and Attributes:
- Bachelor’s Degree or a Diploma in a Forestry, Resource Management or related field; or equivalent knowledge in the forest industry including work in silviculture, wildfire suppression and harvesting.
- Registered with the Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC) as a Registered Forest Technologist (RFT) of Registered Professional Forester (RPF) OR
- Enrolled, or eligible for immediate enrollment, with the Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC) as a forest professional in training (TFT, ASTFT, FIT, ASFIT), for the purpose of obtaining an RFT or RPF designation.
- Experience in tree planting, brushing, pruning, spacing, trail building, and silviculture surveys an asset.
- Basic Chainsaw Training an asset.
- OFA Level 1 with transportation endorsement an asset.
- Experience in firefighting and fuels management is an asset.
- Experience working in a supervisory or crew lead position is preferred.
- Experience working within the BC Forestry Industry preferred.
- Experience in related Occupational Health and Safety an asset.
- Firefighting training (S100, S185, ICS100, S212, S235, S232, S211) an asset.
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task and adapt in a flexible and fast paced environment.
- Excellent interpersonal and people management skills.
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage workload.
- Ability to work independently / with minimal supervision.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills including report writing.
- Basic computer knowledge, iPad skills and experience using Avenza Maps.
- Class 5 Driver’s License.
- Cleared Criminal Record Check.