Directly supervise and coordinate activities of logging workers.
- Hook Tender
- Superintendent, Logging
- Supervisor, Felling-Bucking
- Supervisor, Log Sorting
- Supervisor, Logging
- Woods Boss
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- Assign to workers duties such as trees to be cut, cutting sequences and specifications, and loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
- Change logging operations or methods to eliminate unsafe conditions.
- Communicate with forestry personnel regarding forest harvesting and forest management plans, procedures, and schedules.
- Coordinate dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new work sites.
- Coordinate the selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements.
- Determine logging operation methods, crew sizes, and equipment requirements, conferring with mill, company, and forestry officials as necessary.
- Monitor logging operations to identify and solve problems, improve work methods, and ensure compliance with safety, company, and government regulations.
- Monitor workers to ensure that safety regulations are followed, warning or disciplining those who violate safety regulations.
- Plan and schedule logging operations such as felling and bucking trees; and grading, sorting, yarding or loading logs.
- Prepare production and personnel time records for management.
- Schedule work crews, equipment, and transportation for several different work locations.
- Supervise and coordinate the activities of workers engaged in logging operations and silvicultural operations.
- Train workers in tree felling and bucking, operation of tractors and loading machines, yarding and loading techniques, and safety regulations.
- analyze operational or management reports or records
- assign work to staff or employees
- conduct or attend staff meetings
- conduct training for personnel
- consult with managerial or supervisory personnel
- determine equipment requirements
- dictate correspondence
- direct and coordinate activities of workers or staff
- discipline staff for infractions of rules or regulations
- establish employee performance standards
- estimate materials or labor requirements
- fell or buck trees
- follow transportation schedules
- maintain production or work records
- modify work procedures or processes to meet deadlines
- monitor worker performance
- orient new employees
- oversee work progress to verify safety or conformance to standards
- perform safety inspections in agricultural, forestry, or fishing setting
- plan logging operations
- plan or organize work
- prepare or maintain employee records
- recognize plant diseases
- recognize tree or forest plant species
- recommend purchase or repair of furnishings or equipment
- resolve logging operation problems
- resolve or assist workers to resolve work problems
- schedule activities, classes, or events
- understand second language
- use chain saws
- use oral or written communication techniques
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