Forester/Buyer

Stella-Jones is a leading manufacturer of essential infrastructure products focused on serving utilities and railroads, as well as supplying big box home improvement stores across North America. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada and publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Stella-Jones operates a vast network of facilities that employs more than 3,000 employees across the United States and Canada. Built on strong foundations with a coast-to-coast reach, we offer real opportunities for career success and community impact.

We are seeking a qualified Forester/Buyer to cover specified regions in Alabama. This role is responsible for providing raw material to manufacturing locations to meet production requirements.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Provides a continuous monthly supply of poles to accomplish established annual production requirements.
• Cruises land to determine volume, size and quality of timber stands.
• Purchases and balances raw materials inventory to meet required production levels.
• Monitors barkie yields to ensure cost efficiency is maintained and budget requirements are met.
• Calculates cruises to ensure proper volumes and values are established to purchase tracts at or below market price.
• Maintains and develops new relationships with sellers of raw materials.
• May contact carriers to arrange transportation of purchases.
• Ensures proper quantity and quality of materials received to locations.
• Supervises manufacturing of poles to ensure quality control and directs sizes toward company needs.
• Oversees logging crews to ensure proper processing of materials.
• Contacts and follows up on any open market producers that have material fitting production needs.
• Responds to and performs on special market requirements for poles and piling.
• Inspects and evaluates potential timber sales and follows up with successful purchasers for possible pole production.
• Maintains contacts in the industry and related areas to develop information regarding future pole production potentials and market information on poles, piling, and other products. Reports findings on a regular basis.
• Provides a monthly estimate of pole volume to be produced by each individual or job.
• Visits competitors and related company facilities to maintain a current knowledge of methods and costs typical of the industry’s best/worst companies. Attends meetings, trade shows, seminars, etc. to maintain current knowledge and best practices.
• Participates and contribute to company safety program.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Forestry or related field preferred; or five years' related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience: 5 years' timber experience
• License/Certification: Driver’s License

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills
• Solid decision making and strong analytical skills
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs
• Detail and results oriented
• Excellent computer skills including Microsoft Suite

Employee Benefits:
As a Stella-Jones employee, you will have access to excellent benefits and incentives including:

• The security of working for a company designated as an essential workplace
• Comprehensive total benefits package with 3 medical plans to choose from
• Several company-paid benefits including:
• Dental and Vision coverage
• Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) policies
• Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Access to a robust employee assistance program
• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus program opportunity
• 401(k) savings plan with generous Company match (150% on the first 4% deferred)
• 2 weeks paid vacation and 9 holidays
• Career advancement opportunities
• Ability to purchase Company stock

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled