3 Forestry Technician jobs in Canada

CNUC of Canada

The Position: Utility Forestry Technician

Type: Full-time

Reports To: Regional Supervisor

About Us:

CNUC, a division of Wright Canada Holdings, provides innovative, economically sensible and environmentally sustainable vegetation management services.

Why Wright Canada Holdings:

• A Company Culture of Safety, Family, Integrity, Excellence and Stewardship.
• Pay rate of $250- $300 per day, paid hourly.
• We provide ALL equipment needed except your CSA Certified Work Boots.
• Working shifts of 4 days on and 3 days off.
• Year-round employment, not seasonal work.
• Compensated travel time, depending on working location, and live out allowance.
• Medical and Dental benefits.
• Employee Ownership potential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identification, inspection, and reporting of trees and brush along power line corridors.
• Consultation and consenting with landowners and/or stakeholders.
• Complete quality assurance and quality control auditing, inspections, and compliance based on client requirements.
• Discuss and negotiate access issues with stakeholders/property owners.
• Safeguard employees and the public from hazards in and around the work area.
• Help enforce on-the-job safety practices.
• Carry and utilize materials, tools, and equipment at the work site.
• Service trucks and equipment. Keep trucks and other assigned equipment in a neat and orderly fashion. Report the need for equipment and truck repairs to the supervisor.
• Uphold CNUC core values and maintain a positive work environment.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Experience and Knowledge Expectations:

• Integrated Resource Management diploma, Forestry Resource Technology diploma, and/or BSc in Forestry and/or one or more years of Utility Vegetation Management (UVM) field-related experience.
• Valid Class 5 Driver's License and Drivers Abstract with less than 6 demerits.
• Candidate must pass a pre-employment drug test.
• Identification, inspection, and reporting of trees and brush along power line corridors.
• Safeguard employees and the public from hazards in and around the work area.
• Must have organizational and prioritization skills.
• Must be able to communicate clearly with various stakeholders, including home/ land owners, contractors, and other team members, to ensure proper service delivery and clear reports.

Join Our Team:

CNUC of Canada is a business unit of an employee-owned company formed in 2017, known as Wright Canada Holdings (WCH). The Wright family of companies, established in 1933 in the United States, includes Wright Tree Service, Wright Outdoor Solutions, Eocene Environmental Group℠, Eocene Environmental Group of the West, Wright Tree Service of the West, Wright Tree Service of Puerto Rico, Wright Canada Holdings and commonly seen brands, such as Spectrum Resource Group, ArborCare and Verdure Elements.

Our hiring practices ensure that all qualified candidates are considered, and decisions are merit-based. We invite applicants of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, ancestry, religious beliefs, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, age, family/marital status, and physical and mental disabilities.

We appreciate all applicants for their interest in the position. However, only candidates whose education and experience meet the requirements will be contacted. The posting will remain open until the role is filled.

Job Description

About veritree:

veritree is an award-winning climate tech start-up based in Vancouver. Launched in 2021, our technology measures and verifies the impact of global restoration efforts from the ground up. We are a small team on a big mission to plant 1 billion verified trees by 2030 with our community of businesses, planting organizations, and consumers who believe in the transformative power of verified restoration projects to create real and meaningful impact for the planet, nature and people.

About the role:

veritree is seeking a skilled technician to join its Innovation and Field Operations team. This role will support quality checking, processing and managing data from terrestrial planting locations around the world. This includes field evidence, field reports, field surveys and other data streams. This individual will be accountable for setting up automated workflows to ensure data quality and consistency, processing and analyzing varying data outputs from the field, and producing insightful reports and client materials. The successful candidate will report to the Field Operations Manager and work closely with members of the Innovation, Customer Success, and Science Teams. This new role will ensure veritree maintains the highest standards of data and reporting as it scales planting efforts across the globe.

6 Month Key Outcomes:

• Coordinating with terrestrial planting partners to conduct product trainings, troubleshoot data collection issues and ensure planting sessions can be verified
• Develop and document standardized field auditing and reporting procedures to be performed throughout veritree’s various global sites with a focus on terrestrial planting
• Utilize vertiree’s data collection technologies to help streamline and scale field audits, survival and growth progress monitoring, partner trainings and feature improvements
• Work with members of the Field Operations team to systemize solving issues related to data consistency, data upload, data quality and data frequency
  

Key Responsibilities:

1. Build out manual and automated processes for quality checking incoming data within the veritree platform
• Manage incoming evidence uploads (images, videos and forms) from planting partners ensuring metadata consistency
• Create automated flagging systems when there are errors with uploaded or attached evidence or planting sessions
• Liaise with planting partners to streamline evidence upload procedures and remedy flagged errors
2. Perform the verification of planting sessions, tasks and field reports
• Maintain the company tree supply by verifying planting sessions on a consistent basis across all planting organisations
• Ensure the quality of data being received through automated tasks within the veritree system
• Ensure that task evidence is correctly fed to appropriate field reports and that field reports are ready for verification

3. Conduct data collection, training or technology deployment tasks as required

• Assist in the ground-based data collection or verification tasks that go beyond tree planting such as sensor deployment, veritree app testing and field team training.
• Utilize the veritree app and system to collect evidence of planting activities and tree growth/survival where required
• Performing the collection of drone-based imagery and data at all new planting sites and existing planting sites where required

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience, working in a highly collaborative team environment.
• BSc in Forestry, Forest Science, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science, Applied Science, Remote Sensing or other related technical fields.
• Knowledge of forest management practices, project design and data quality assurance.
• Proven experience performing field-work, field surveys, forest inventory plots and other silviculture tasks
• Technical experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis to assess, monitor and verify nature-based climate solutions.
• Technical experience creating automated QA processes or flagging systems
• Experience with statistics and an understanding of the potential applications of GIS, data science and machine learning within dMRV.
• Experience manipulating and visualizing raster and LiDAR datasets effectively
• Experience with cloud (AWS, GCP) data storage and processing solutions and tools

Preferred

• Has obtained or in pursuit of a Registered Professional Forester or Forester in Training designation
• Experience working with the Canadian 2 Billion Trees initiative
• Experience working with/for terrestrial tree planting teams in North America
• Experience working on forestry projects with Indigenous stakeholders
• Field-based drone operation experience

Personal

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders/contractors.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Desire to travel to planting sites globally to perform trainings and further refine the verification process
• Resourceful with capital, with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent attention-to-detail.
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, agile and lean environment.
• Enthusiasm for the topic of climate action and nature restoration.

Benefits

• Extended healthcare plan
• Generous paid days off
• Ability to work remotely
• Opportunities for training and development
• Employee discounts at tentree

A typical hiring range for this position is $70,000 - $75,000 CAD per year with the final salary offer based on your qualifications, job-related skills, and relevant experience. In addition, veritree's total rewards offering also includes comprehensive benefits, a certified inspiring workplace, and exclusive perks to reward your exceptional performance and contributions.

veritree is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs