Forestry Technician

We are Cor Source Technology Group, a locally owned technical staffing and recruiting firm in Portland, Oregon.

19887

12 months

This position closes to submittals on October 7th.

Position requires the ability to meet federal background and compliance requirements.

This assignment serves as a Forestry Technician 3 working with the Chief Forester within the Vegetation Management & Forestry (TFBV) organization at the Company. The Vegetation Management & Forestry group is responsible for all aspects of Real Estate/Property Valuations, Danger Tree identification/acquisition and all forestry-related work undertaken by the company.

This assignment provides assistance and services for the Chief Forester and TFBV across the company service territory. This assignment involves extended overnight travel (up to 75% out of town and 25% office) throughout the company service area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana, Northern Nevada, Northern California and Western Wyoming.

The Vegetation Management and Forestry group is housed under Company’s Transmission Field Services organization. Its responsibilities are to implement the Vegetation management Program that is designed to meet Company’s regulatory requirements. This work includes the maintenance of vegetation in and along the transmission lines and other infrastructure as well as supporting capital projects the agency is pursuing.

The ideal candidate for the Forestry Technician 3 position has a mixture of educational and work experience needed to fulfil the responsibilities of the position as described below. These include but are not limited to; the ability to manage multiple complex tasks and competing needs under constrained timelines, the ability to understand and compose scopes of work, statements of work and technical specifications for forestry projects, the ability to analyze information, evaluate results and make sound recommendations and provide solutions to complex problems, as well as the ability to interpret potential hazards and react appropriately in emergency situations.

Note:

All official drafts, documents and recommendations, as listed below, must be reviewed, finalized and approved / accepted by appropriate manager or other federal personnel with the authority to do so.

• Provide information tracking of the company-owned timber and timber stands.
• Perform collection of forestry related data such as diameter, height, volume, percent defect, form factor, disease, root rot, logging, yarding and hauling costs, etc. for construction projects.
• Provide data entry, collect, process and analyze field data in appropriate company and industry standard database(s).
• Perform onsite inspection and oversight of timber and brush removal activity.
• Assist the Chief Forester in managing Timber, Brush and Undesirable Plant Studies and clearing activities.
• Assist the Chief Forester in marketing timber resources cleared from rights-of-ways or on U.S. Government property. The Forestry Technician 3 supports this work by assisting with the identification of trees to be harvested and estimating the value of the timber in those trees.
• Draft scopes of work, statements of work and technical specifications for forestry-related projects.
• Collaborate, attend, participate and coordinate with design and/or planning engineers, project managers, managers, and stakeholders to develop work products, such as timber appraisals that are reflective of the project scope on capital projects assigned to the position. The quality reflects an understanding of the work products developed by both internal and external stakeholders.
• Consult with clients, vendors, personnel in other departments or construction foremen to discuss…