Description
Directly supervise and coordinate logging crews and equipment for timber felling, processing, skidding/yarding, loading, and hauling, ensuring safety, production, quality, and environmental compliance.
- • Assign daily felling, skidding/yarding, processing, loading, and road work to crews.
- • Record volumes, species, grades, and sorts cut, decked, and shipped.
- • Monitor crews for OSHA and company safety compliance; correct or discipline as needed.
- • Inspect work areas for hazards, weather impacts, and unsafe conditions; escalate when required.
- • Assess stand, soil, slope, and weather to plan safe, efficient harvest methods.
- • Train workers in felling, bucking, rigging, yarding, loading, and safe equipment operation.
- • Provide basic first aid response and complete incident reports per company policy.
- • Coach crews on log merchandising, bucking specs, and quality standards.
- • Instruct workers in environmental BMPs, stream buffer compliance, and spill prevention.
- • Confer with foresters and managers to review harvest plans, terrain, soils, and weather; adjust cutting specs and methods.
- • Coordinate with forestry staff on schedules, tract boundaries, SMZs, and reforestation requirements.
- • Inspect stands, roads, and landings to determine need for felling, brushing, grading, or maintenance.
- • Coordinate equipment move-in/move-out, cable settings, anchors, and rigging at new sites.
- • Manage log sorts and decks to meet mill quotas and trucking schedules.
- • Schedule crews, equipment, and trucks across multiple tracts or settings.
- • Operate feller-bunchers, skidders, processors, loaders, or trucks as needed to meet targets.
- • Handle supervisory and administrative duties, including timekeeping, hiring, evaluations, and job costing.
- • Arrange transport of equipment, fuel, supplies, and logs to mills or sort yards.
- • Inspect equipment, landings, roads, bridges, and PPE; identify maintenance and repair needs.
- • Review harvest maps, contracts, cut tickets, scale slips, and delivery schedules to plan daily work.
- • Inspect shops, fuel storage, and spill kits for maintenance and regulatory compliance.
- • Meet with managers to set production targets, review equipment condition, and align work schedules.
- • Prepare and maintain time/payroll, training, and personnel records.
- • Requisition fuel, bar oil, chains, tires, machine parts, PPE, and tools.
- • Oversee construction and maintenance of temporary roads, landings, and stream crossings per permits and BMPs.
- • Issue saws, radios, PPE, and tools; track and collect equipment at shift end.
- • Monitor job costs, production, and budgets for tracts and equipment.
- • Direct and assist with equipment troubleshooting and minor repairs; coordinate vendor service.
- • Monitor operations to solve problems, improve methods, and ensure safety, environmental, and regulatory compliance.
- • Plan daily and weekly schedules based on personnel, equipment availability, weather, and mill demand.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
