Job description

Job Summary
The Forest Lands and Stumpage Manager leads the forest management team with responsibility for profit/loss, forest land management activities, stumpage procurement, safety, and forestry operations.

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ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & DUTIES*
Management

• Role model of a safe and productive working environment
• Assist Senior Management for long term growth and margin expansion strategy of the business unit
• Annual P&L responsibility for company fee land management and stumpage/procurement impact to Forestry and NH combined operating targets; to include development of and performance tracking to operating plan, operating goals and objectives; monitor and manage to key metrics and quickly identify and initiate corrective actions as required.
• Deliver cost savings improvements through process improvement activities including operating cycle time.
• Develop relationships across the business that help create a culture of continuous improvement and actively participate in activities that will ensure sustainability of improvement initiatives
• Mentor, coach, and train employees on Operational Excellence standards, tools, and metrics
• Execute the implementation of capital investments and improvement projects.

• Operations*

• Responsible for E&HS compliance across company forest management and stumpage procurement operations; develop and promote safety standards.
• Compliance with applicable BMP’s, environmental standards, MIOSHA, and all relevant laws and regulations.
• Plan, organize, and direct operations to meet and improve upon, annual operating targets
• Oversee Forest Management activities on company fee lands and applicable stumpage sales:
• Alignment with Forest Management Plan and forest certification
• Quality and consistency across operations
• Stumpage sale procurement, strategy, and profitability
• Pre-harvest activities in alignment with due diligence, includes logging road construction activities
• Status and closure of harvest areas, updates for GIS data, maps, continual forest inventory & other systems

• Supervise forester management staff and daily operations to meet or exceed company production economic targets.
• Sustain a value mind-set amongst foresters, drive continual improvement in advance planning and operations monitoring skills, continually improve business and financial understanding, foster an attitude of commitment to Longyear business success

• Maintain alignment with Company raw material plans and with Production and Logistics Manager on Harvesting and Transportation to facilitate smooth transfer of operations to harvest and delivery team
• Provide backup support to Production and Logistics Manager

Lands Administration

• Assist with lands administration duties as assigned

General

• Effective interaction with harvest and delivery teams, office and yard staff, management, GIS and accounting teams
• Execution and compliance of relevant contracts: stumpage, logging, hauling, road construction

This is not an exhaustive list of job duties.
WORK SCHEDULE
Hours: full-time; 40 hours per week; can be substantially more; irregular hours with early start time; travel & overnight stays out of town
Overtime: Exempt Status: without compensation and without notice
SUPERVISION
Reporting Staff: Forest Management Foresters
RECOMMENDED EXPERIENCE

• 15+ years’ experience in land base management, purchase and operation of standing timber; manufacturing of forest products, supervision of contractors, scaling, grading of product.
• 10+ years’ experience in employee oversight, economic analysis and monitoring of financial performance.

• See attached job description for more details

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About the Company*
Longyear Harvesting & Transportation is a portfolio organization of the J.M. Longyear family of companies. Headquartered in Marquette, Michigan, J.M. Longyear is a privately-held asset based manager with 150 years of experience growing long-term value. Longyear's interests span a vast spectrum of markets that include: forestry & land management, mining & metals, hardwood products, manufacturing, real estate and medical device products. Please visit www.jmlongyear.com for more information.

Job Type: Full-time

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