Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates the production activities of a forestry operation including physical and human resources.
Occupation description
Plans, organises, directs, controls and coordinates the production activities of a forestry operation including physical and human resources.
Occupations considered suitable under this ANZSCO code:
- Forest Logistics Manager (NZ)
- Forestry Contractor (NZ)
- Harvest Manager (Forestry)
- Operations Manager (Forestry)
Production Manager (Forestry) is a VETASSESS Group B occupation
This occupation requires a qualification assessed as comparable to the educational level of an Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) Bachelor degree or higher.
Applicants can fulfil the assessment criteria for this occupation in four different ways.
*Additional qualifications in a highly relevant field of study include those comparable to the following levels:
- AQF Diploma
- AQF Advanced Diploma
- AQF Associate Degree or
- AWF Graduate Diploma
***Bachelor degree or higher degree includes:
- AQF Master Degree or
- AQF Doctoral Degree
*8Highly relevant paid employment duration (20 hours or more per week)
1-3
minimum years of employment highly relevant to the nominated occupation, completed at an appropriate skill level in the five years before the date of application for a Skills Assessment.
4
minimum 6 years of relevant employment required - five years of relevant employment (can be outside the last five-year period) in addition to at least one year of highly relevant employment within the last five years before applying.
Qualification & Employment Criteria
Qualification
Forestry Studies is the study of establishing, cultivating, harvesting and managing forests. The main purpose of this narrow field of education is to develop an understanding of sustainable forest management, and the establishment and maintenance of forest farms.
Subjects in this field include:
• Forest Cultivation and Maintenance
• Forest Management
• Forest Mensuration and Inventory
• Timber Harvesting
• Biology
• Chemistry
• Earth Systems: The Lithosphere
• Forest Operations
• Environmental Mapping
• Ecology
• Wood Science and Utilisation
• Environmental Information Analysis
• Earth Systems: The Hydrosphere
• Introduction to Sustainable Forestry
• Environmental Information Management
• Soil Processes
• Fire Ecology and Management
• Measuring Trees and Forests
• Environmental Economics
• Geographic Information Systems
• Native Forest Silviculture
• Land Degradation and Rehabilitation
• Plant Identification and Conservation
• Plantation Silviculture
• Forest Health
• Natural Resources Policy
• Ecological Restoration and Monitoring
• Legislation, Administration and Communication
• Plant Physiology and Ecology
• Extension and Advisory Services
• Product Development and Marketing
• Wildlife Conservation
• Water and Catchment Management
• Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis
• Marketing Research
• Protected Area Management
• Managing Organisations in a Global Context Financial Information for Decision Making
Employment Criteria
Highly relevant tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Bestow with other managers to set production quotas, to diagram extraction sites and to widen policies for the elimination of raw materials.
- Assess competence of production sites to determine sufficiency of workers, equipment and technologies used, and create changes to work agenda or tools when required.
- Ensure safety regulations are met.
- Oversee and examine operations in forestry, logging, mining, quarrying, or oil and gas operations or in services to logging, mining and oil and gas industries, or in commercial fishing.
- Advise operational changes to senior management when essential to make sure that production quotas and procedures are met.
- Hire workers and supervise training needs of staff.
- May direct secondary activities such as the construction of right of entry roads or temporary living quarters.
- Arrange production reports for evaluation by senior management.
Additional tasks may include:
- Determining, implementing and monitoring production strategies, policies and plans
- Planning details of production activities in terms of output quality and quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements
- Controlling the operation of production plant and quality procedures through planning of maintenance, designation of operating hours and supply of parts and tools
- Monitoring production output and costs, and adjusting processes and resources to minimise costs
- Informing other Managers about production matters
- Overseeing the acquisition and installation of new plant and equipment
- Directing research into production methods, and recommending and implementing initiatives
- Controlling the preparation of production records and reports
- Coordinating the implementation of occupational health and safety requirements
- Directing staff activities and monitoring their performance
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