Forester-Buyer (Finance)
Responsible for providing raw material to manufacturing locations to meet production requirements.
Principal Responsibilities:
- Provides a continuous monthly supply of poles to accomplish established annual production requirements.
- Cruises land to determine volume, size and quality of timber stands.
- Purchases and balances raw materials inventory to meet required production levels.
- Monitors barkie yields to ensure cost efficiency is maintained and budget requirements are met.
- Calculates cruises to ensure proper volumes and values are established to purchase tracts at or below market price.
- Maintains and develops new relationships with sellers of raw materials.
- May contact carriers to arrange transportation of purchases.
- Ensures proper quantity and quality of materials received to locations.
- Supervises manufacturing of poles to ensure quality control and directs sizes toward company needs.
- Oversees logging crews to ensure proper processing of materials.
- Contacts and follows up on any open market producers that have material fitting production needs.
- Responds to and performs on special market requirements for poles and piling.
- Inspects and evaluates potential timber sales and follows up with successful purchasers for possible pole production.
- Maintains contacts in the industry and related areas to develop information regarding future pole production potentials and market information on poles, piling, and other products. Reports findings on a regular basis.
- Provides a monthly estimate of pole volume to be produced by each individual or job.
- Visits competitors and related company facilities to maintain a current knowledge of methods and costs typical of the industry's best/worst companies. Attends meetings, trade shows, seminars, etc. to maintain current knowledge and best practices.
- Participates and contribute to company safety program.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor's Degree in Forestry or related field preferred; or five years' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience: 5 years' timber experience
- License/Certification: Driver's License
- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
- Solid decision making and strong analytical skills
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
- Detail and results oriented
- Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Suite
