Forestry Engineer Sr; TI

Position: Forestry Engineer Sr (TI-47270)
CLOSING DATE:
May 22, 2026

POSITION:
Forestry Engineer ,Sr.SALARY: $39.86 to $46.20, per hour DOE

REPORTS TO:

Forestry Manager

LOCATION:

Forestry;
Reservation Wide, WABasic Functions:
This is a Non Exempt position. Incumbent Serves as a principal resource management assistant in a combination first and second level organization representing the Branch of Forestry on planning issues that have an impact on timber harvesting/transportation operations. The Branch of Forestry is responsible for harvesting approximately 77 million board feet of timber from approximately 660,418 acres of commercial forest land within the 1.4 million acre Colville Reservation.

The revenue from this harvest constitutes approximately ninety percent of the operating revenue for the Colville Confederated Tribes. The land base is composed of varying landforms with a complex forest stand structure requiring a variety of advanced harvesting systems that must operate economically within diverse watersheds. Such operations require a sophisticated infrastructure that has a direct impact on the forest ecosystem and often creates conflicts with other resources.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education and Training:

The position typically requires a Master’s degree in civil or forest engineering, AND Three (3) years of engineering experience in the transportation or forest engineering field, with a working knowledge of Stream Simulation design, hydraulic design principles, and design of road infrastructure;

OR Requires a Bachelor’s degree in forestry, forest management, Natural Resource Management and a minimum of Five (5) years of professional experience in forestry, forest management, Natural Resource Management, or closely related field;

Requires a valid WA State Drivers’ License and must maintain throughout employment.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

The position requires professional knowledge in forest land management principals, concepts, theories, and practices in order to conduct the development and implementation of intensive forest resource management.

Requires professional knowledge in Forestry, including forest ecology, silviculture, mensuration, engineering, surveying, mapping, entomology, pathology, forest soils, wildland fire; and familiarity with related fields such as watershed and stream habitat protection, wildlife habitat management, landscape architecture and other resources associated with the forested ecosystem.

Requires knowledge of Federal and Tribal policies and regulations affecting forest management activities including Federal statutes, Tribal codes, the Colville Tribal Integrated Resource Management Plan and other local Colville Agency policies.

Requires knowledge and specialized training in logging systems, logging system analysis, skyline analysis, and payload analysis of numerous types of diverse harvesting equipment.

Ability to designates the appropriate application of sophisticated harvesting equipment based on terrain, economics, environmental factors, and the operating specifications of the equipment.

Requires knowledge in conducting production analysis, empirical cost analysis, and the financial analysis of harvesting operations for a wide variety of harvesting processes and equipment including the introduction of any new technological developments to the field of timber harvesting.

Requires knowledge and experience in civil engineering for the design of forest roads, bridges, complex culverts, and other hydrologic structures.

Must possess specialized knowledge in watershed hydraulics, complex culvert design, bridge design, and associated financial cost analysis.

Requires Knowledge of Federal Timber Sale contracts, contract writing, subsequent contract administration, and contract mediation.

Requires knowledge of public land survey and survey methods in accordance with the methods and procedures as prescribed by the USDI Bureau of Land Management Manual of Surveying Instructions.

Requires knowledge and experience in cadastral surveys for locating land survey corners, property corners, and property lines on a variety of property types including Fee property and Indian Allotments.

Requires knowledge of land easements,…