• Job Description

  Req#: 01022881

  Are you passionate about forestry and engineering? Weyerhaeuser’s St Helens Area is excited to announce an opening for one of our two Lead Forest Engineer positions. Based in our Castle Rock, Washington office, this role offers the opportunity to work closely with the St. Helens Area Manager and the Region Forest Engineer, contributing to impactful projects and initiatives.

  This is a full-time, exempt position with a competitive salary, tailored to your skills and experience. If you're looking for a dynamic and rewarding career in forestry, we encourage you to apply and become a part of our dedicated team!

  Key Functions:

  Team Management: Oversee the forest engineering team, dedicating 25% of your time to management duties, including setting clear expectations, goal setting, and providing continuous feedback.

  Operational Duties: Spend 75% of your time performing operational tasks related to layout and permitting of harvest units, road construction and maintenance, and long-term capital planning for infrastructure.

  Safety and Compliance: Advocate for safe work practices and ensure compliance with state and federal safety statutes, environmental requirements, and Weyerhaeuser's resource and stewardship goals.

  Budget and Metrics: Develop and track budgets and key engineering metrics, ensuring alignment with the regional and area engineering strategy and annual budget plan.

  Planning and Forecasting: Plan and forecast harvesting and road construction activities to determine optimal logging plans for maximizing margin.

  Contract Administration: Negotiate, prepare, supervise, and monitor contracts for compliance, including payment management.

  Stakeholder Engagement: Act as a company representative with landowners, government agencies, and community representatives, collaborating with forestry and harvesting discipline site leads and other area and region teams.

  Educational Background: Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Forestry or a related field with five years of experience, OR a High School Diploma/GED with eight years of experience in logging systems, technology, and equipment.

  Regulatory Knowledge: Familiarity with state and federal forest practice rules and statutes.

  Skill Set: Strong team building, communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills.

  Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in personal computers and related software applications such as MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Geographical Information Systems.

  Project Management: Ability to develop, prioritize, plan, implement, and manage activities to meet targets and deadlines, including occasional extended work periods and weekend work.

  Experience: Proven experience in project management and contract administration.

  Driving Requirements: Valid driver's license required, with the ability to drive company vehicles on rough roads (approximately 25,000 miles per year).

  Preferred Qualifications:

  People Management: Experience in managing teams and individuals effectively.

  Labor Relations: Familiarity with labor relations and working within a collective bargaining agreement.

  Equipment Knowledge: Working knowledge of equipment operations and necessary maintenance for road graders, dump trucks, backhoes, and small excavators.

  Compensation: This role is eligible for our annual merit-increase program, and we are targeting a salary range of $97,351-$146,027 based on your level of skills, qualifications and experience. You will also be eligible for our Annual Incentive Program, which offers a cash bonus targeting 10% of base pay. Potential plan funding may range from zero to two times that target.

  Benefits: When you join our team, you and your dependents will be offered coverage under our comprehensive employee benefits plan, which includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, and life insurance. We offer a pre-tax Health Savings Account option which includes a company contribution. Other benefit options are also available such as voluntary Long-Term Care and Employee Assistance Programs. We also support personal volunteerism, sponsor a host of diversity networks, promote mentoring, and provide training and development opportunities to help you chart your path to a fulfilling career.

  Retirement: Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, which includes a paid company match in addition to our annual contribution equal to 5% of your base salary.

  Paid Time Off or Vacation: We provide eligible employees who are scheduled to work 25 hours or more per week with 3 weeks of paid vacation to use during your first year of employment. In addition, after being employed for six months, eligible employees begin to accrue vacation for future use. We also recognize eleven paid holidays per year, providing a total of 88 holiday hours.

  About the St Helens Tree Farm

  Weyerhaeuser’s St Helens tree farm has been one of the largest sources of sustainably harvested logs in the Pacific Northwest for over one hundred years. Located in the Kalama and Toutle River Valleys of Southwest Washington, our diverse team of Harvest Managers, Silviculturists, and Engineering Specialists work together to manage some 385,000 acres of the most productive forest land in the Western United States.

  With over 100 years of combined field experience, our in-house team of Forest Engineering Specialists are responsible for the layout, road location, and construction of over 50 miles of road annually and the harvest permitting for up to 20, year-round, logging sides. Our team works closely with Wood Flow Planners to build out accurate and deliverable harvest schedules 24 months in advance of cutting. With a relentless focus on lead time, we begin engineering units 4-5 years prior to harvest. We use a systematic approach to surveying, stream typing, harvest unit design, and road construction.

  Additionally at the St Helens tree farm, we pride ourselves in our focus on harvesting innovation. All of which starts with the right approach to engineering and designing our units. Emphasis on cable assist cutting and logging, and drone and grapple application to mechanize steep slopes has put our team at the forefront of the shifting harvest practices in the industry.

  Forty-four years ago, when Mt St Helens erupted, a previous generation of Weyerhaeuser foresters worked to quickly salvage and replant some 35,0000 acres of the volcano’s “blast zone.” This marks a moment in modern forestry that has never been repeated. Today, that same ground is reaching a mature, harvestable age and our engineers are now faced with the unique task of sequencing and applying the new logging technologies of today to this largely contiguous block of merchantable timber.

  The blast zone only encompasses 10% of the overall tree farm. In the coming years, our extensive operations are planned for all corners of the ownership. From collaborative layout work with our Geologist and Biologist teams, to technical fish pipe and bridge design, the engineering need on the St Helens tree farm presents an extensive and exciting challenge. If you’re interested in learning more about our operations and possibly joining our team, apply today.

  About Weyerhaeuser

  We sustainably manage forests and manufacture products that make the world a better place. We’re serious about safety, driven to achieve excellence, and proud of what we do. With multiple business lines in locations across North America, we offer a range of exciting career opportunities for smart, talented people who are passionate about making a difference.

  About Timberlands

  We believe trees are a remarkable resource that can and should be managed responsibly to make a range of products that meet human needs, while also providing recreation, wildlife habitat, and other important ecosystem benefits.

  For more than a century, we've been taking care of forests to make life better.

  Weyerhaeuser is an equal opportunity employer. Inclusion is one of our five core values and we strive to maintain a culture where all our people feel a sense of belonging, opportunity and shared purpose. We are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce and supporting an equitable and inclusive environment that inspires people of all backgrounds to join, stay and thrive with our team.

  We know you have a choice in your career. We want you to choose us.

• About the company

  Weyerhaeuser Company is an American timberland company which owns nearly 12,400,000 acres of timberlands in the US, and manages an additional 14,000,000 acres of timberlands under long-term licenses in Canada.

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