National Application Center :: career details :: First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Logging Workers
Career Details :: First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Logging Workers
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of logging workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same logging work as the workers they supervise.
A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.
Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.
- Determines methods for logging operations, size of crew, and equipment requirements.
- Confers with mill, company, and government forestry officials to determine safest and most efficient method of logging tract.
- Plans and schedules logging operations, such as felling and bucking trees, grading and sorting logs, and yarding and loading logs.
- Assigns workers to duties, such as trees to be cut, cutting sequence and specifications, and loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
- Changes logging operations or methods to eliminate unsafe conditions and warns or disciplines workers disregarding safety regulations.
- Coordinates selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements of wood products plant.
- Prepares production and personnel time records for management.
- Coordinates dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new worksite.
- Trains workers in felling and bucking trees, operating tractors and loading machines, yarding and loading techniques, and safety regulations.
- Oversees logging operations to identify and solve problems and ensure safety and company regulations are being followed.
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General Work Activities
- Performing General Physical Activities
- Communicating With Other Workers
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
- Scheduling Work and Activities
Frequent Work Context
- Job-Required Social Interaction
- Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
- Responsible for Others' Health & Safety
- Supervise, Coach, Train Others
- Consequence of Error