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Forest Analyst

Deadline:
Employer:
PotlatchDeltic
Job Field:
Forestry
Job Type:
Full Time
Location:
Washington
Location Detail:
Spokane
Job Description:

Support the forest planning, inventory and environmental programs and provide decision support. The individual will have a lead role in key company initiatives including harvest scheduling, growth and yield modelling, silviculture, inventory cruising, development of integrated geo-spatial and forest data tools, year-end inventory, carbon and GHG calculations and reporting.

Forest Management Planning Support:

 Data management and testing.

 Provide assistance in applied statistics/data analysis to foresters, biologists, and other natural resources professionals.

 Provide group and/or individual training as needed.

 Provide project-level data analyses, and decision support.

 Work with IT in developing integrated data and spatial management tools derived from remote sensing.

 Lead the development and implementation of geospatial tools to improve efficiency of forest management.

Data Quality Assurance/Control:

 Develop and document procedures to ensure the validity and credibility of all resource data, analyses and reports.

 Ensure procedures for routine inventory updates are understandable and followed during inventory acquisition.

 Ensure that sample designs and intensities are consistent, reproducible, and appropriate to the resource and management objectives.

 Lead Timberlands Carbon, and GHG accounting and reporting.

Year-end Inventory Update:

 Support and assist with overseeing the annual year-end forest inventory tabular data update that produces revised forest inventory estimates by region and product.

 Lead the effort to ensure high quality data through ongoing QA/QC procedures and tracking and categorizing changes to the inventory throughout the year.

 Provide preliminary system test procedures (dry run) to scope out issues prior to final year-end updating.

Qualifications:

 Master’s degree in forestry, biometrics, statistics, natural sciences, resource management or related field

 Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel, Access, and Word

 General understanding of business organization, management planning processes and investment strategies

 Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and implement using a team approach to problem solving

 Effectively interact and communicate with unit managers, district foresters, senior resource foresters and resource foresters in each region and the members of the Forest Planning and Inventory work

 Demonstrated proficiency in statistics and ability to apply it to a wide range of data analysis, forest inventory applications, and growth and yield modelling

 Proficiency or familiarity with R/RStudio, SAS/JMP, Python, SQL and/or spatial planning software (Remsoft preferred)

 Familiarity with growth modelling systems such as Forest Projection System (FPS), Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and Southern States growth model (SiMS) (preferred)

 Proficiency with natural resource modelling, ArcGIS, and GPS

 Primarily in an office setting

 Some time may be spent outdoors and subject to adverse weather and terrain conditions

 Travel may be required (+-15%)

 

Benefits:

Health and other benefits provided.

How to Apply:

Please apply on our website:

https://www.potlatchdeltic.com/Page/ViewPage/8 

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