Forester-Chopin

Louisiana, USA

Salary Not AvailableFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Description

Job Description:


Primary Responsibilities: To support the budgeting, planning, and execution of forestry operations, primarily for Forestry Services clients and for outside stumpage sales of fee timberland.

  • Frequent communication with Forestry Service clients – existing and potential
  • Marketing of timber to outside vendors for both fee timberland and Forestry Services clients
  • Harvest planning and supervision, implementing silvicultural prescriptions, and asset protection
  • A combination of both field- and office-based duties, such as forest inventories, streamside management zone and boundary marking, collecting GPS field data, prescribed burning, logging and planting supervision, and computer-based reporting and management

Qualifications/Education Requirements: Attention to detail, creative thinking, and communication skills are vital for success in this role.

  • Bachelor’s degree in forestry
  • Outstanding safety record in all aspects of previous employment
  • Proficient in Microsoft Suite and ArcGIS software
  • Experience in conducting performance assessments and applying appropriate control measures; timber-sales administration and inspections; and forest measurements

Behavioral Skills: Behavioral skills are critical for determining success in a career.

  • Uphold Martco Vision and Values: Respect, Integrity, Commitment, Honesty, Excellence, and Stewardship
  • Committed to the safety of self and others
  • Demonstrates strong leadership skills and an excellent work ethic
  • Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
  • Developmental training is a condition of successful service in this role
  • Must possess strong interpersonal skills
  • Capable of managing and collaborating with all levels of employees, contractors, and vendors

About RoyOMartin

At RoyOMartin, people are our number-one asset. We are committed to keeping them safe and supporting them as they learn and grow. There’s just something unique about being in the people business: Our leaders are involved in daily operations and nurture personal relationships; our employees stick with us for the long term and appreciate our top-notch benefits, and we believe that everyone has the capacity to succeed.
With superior product quality and outstanding customer service at the heart of our more than 1,200-person operation, RoyOMartin is proud to serve America’s building industry. Through our Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) certification, customers can be assured that we responsibly source our raw materials from regional forests to produce “Made in the U.S.A.” oriented strand board (OSB), plywood, timbers, and boards in safety-award-winning manufacturing environments.


RoyOMartin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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RoyOMartin

Martco L.L.C., known by its trade name RoyOMartin, is one of a group of vertically integrated companies owned by the Martin family focused on land, timber, and mineral resources, with special emphasis on sustainable forests and forest-product manufacturing businesses. The RoyOMartin name honors the business pioneer and Martin family patriarch, Roy O. Martin Sr., who began with a small sawmill in Alexandria, Louisiana, in 1923, and soon thereafter bought a few acres of timberland.

Founded in 1923
Alexandria, Louisiana, USA
435 employees (21 in marketing)
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Forester-Chopin

RoyOMartin · Louisiana, USA