FOREST OPERATIONS TEAM LEADER

Location: North Mid Wales

Grade & Salary: 7, £38,922 rising to £43,649 over four years

Post number: 200459

Type of contract: Permanent

Work pattern: Full time. 37 hours a week

Closing date: 5th September 2021

Benefits:

Civil Service pension, 28 days annual leave, rising to 33 days over 5 years, flexible working options, occupational health including counselling and advisory services and eye care, childcare vouchers and salary sacrifice schemes.

Role Purpose

This Team Leader role leads a team of 9/10 staff to deliver a programme of sustainable forestry across the Welsh Government Woodland Estate (WGWE) in Mid-North, maximising their contribution to social, economic, and environmental benefit.

The team deliver their programmes based around the following:
• Forest operations include the operational delivery of harvest and restocking programmes, including all aspects of legal liability and industry standards, related to forest certification schemes.
• Forest Planning, including all aspects of legal liability and industry standards related to forest certification schemes, compliance, data management and commercial forest programming.

This is a complex and fast paced role across a large geographic area in a beautiful part of Mid Wales. For the right candidate this will be a challenging but fulfilling role.

Qualifications and Skills

1. Professional membership (required, or to be attained within an agreed and reasonable timescale). Typically, MICEEM, MICFor, or MRICS).
2. Experience of a relevant scientific or technical subject to at least one of the programmes and staff group managed.
3. Coaching and mentoring skills.
4. Good understanding of commercial business processes and pressures.
5. Extensive knowledge and experience of at least one of the following; conservation scientific subjects, land management, forest practise and forest operations.
6. Professional membership of the Institute of Chartered Foresters or another relevant professional body is desirable

For more information and to apply, please visit our website.



Tel: Not specified | E-mail: Not specified
Web: https://naturalresources.wales/ | Closing Date:5th September 2021

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