We're Hiring: Timber Manager
Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior
Work Arrangement: Fully Remote
About Us
We are a globally focused forestry and natural-resources organization committed to responsible forest management, sustainable timber production, environmental stewardship, and efficient resource utilization. Our operations emphasize forest health, biodiversity, regulatory compliance, timber quality, supply-chain reliability, worker safety, and long-term resource sustainability.
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Timber Manager to oversee timber resources, harvesting operations, forest planning, inventory management, contractors, logistics, timber sales, compliance, and operational performance.
The successful candidate will combine forestry expertise with strong commercial, operational, analytical, and stakeholder-management capabilities to maximize the sustainable value of timber resources while protecting forest ecosystems.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement timber-management strategies aligned with sustainable forestry objectives.
- Prepare harvesting plans based on forest inventories, growth rates, stand conditions, market demand, and applicable regulations.
- Manage timber inventory, volume estimates, species composition, stand quality, and harvest availability.
- Coordinate timber cruising, forest surveys, sampling, mapping, and inventory updates.
- Monitor forest growth, regeneration, productivity, and long-term timber supply.
- Develop annual and long-term harvesting schedules.
- Coordinate timber harvesting, felling, extraction, loading, transportation, and delivery activities.
- Select appropriate harvesting methods based on terrain, forest conditions, environmental requirements, and operational objectives.
- Manage logging contractors, forestry crews, equipment operators, transport providers, and other service partners.
- Establish contractor requirements covering productivity, quality, safety, environmental performance, and delivery standards.
- Monitor harvesting productivity, utilization rates, operating costs, and schedule performance.
- Ensure harvested timber meets required species, dimensions, grade, moisture, and quality specifications.
- Coordinate timber sorting, grading, measurement, storage, and inventory reconciliation.
- Manage timber yards, storage areas, loading facilities, and material-handling operations where applicable.
- Coordinate timber transportation and optimize delivery schedules, routes, loads, and logistics costs.
- Manage relationships with sawmills, processors, manufacturers, traders, customers, and other timber buyers.
- Support timber sales, pricing, contract negotiations, customer requirements, and delivery commitments.
- Monitor timber markets, demand trends, pricing, species preferences, and emerging commercial opportunities.
- Prepare timber forecasts, sales plans, production budgets, and revenue projections.
- Manage operating budgets, harvesting costs, contractor expenses, transportation costs, and capital requirements.
- Maintain accurate records of timber volumes harvested, sold, transported, stored, and remaining in inventory.
- Use GIS, remote sensing, forestry software, inventory systems, and digital mapping tools to improve resource planning.
- Monitor forest roads, bridges, access routes, loading areas, and harvesting infrastructure.
- Coordinate road construction and maintenance activities while minimizing environmental impacts.
- Implement measures to protect soil, water resources, wildlife habitat, and sensitive ecological areas during harvesting.
- Ensure harvesting activities comply with approved forest-management plans and environmental requirements.
- Support reforestation, regeneration, thinning, restoration, and post-harvest activities.
- Monitor regeneration success and identify areas requiring corrective action.
- Implement measures to reduce timber damage, waste, breakage, and unnecessary resource loss.
- Establish quality-control procedures for timber measurement, grading, handling, and inventory management.
- Investigate discrepancies involving timber volumes, quality, deliveries, or contractor performance.
- Maintain strong health and safety standards across harvesting, transportation, equipment, and field operations.
- Conduct operational risk assessments and implement appropriate control measures.
- Develop emergency procedures for severe weather, wildfires, equipment failures, accidents, and other forestry incidents.
- Ensure contractors and employees receive appropriate safety, environmental, and operational training.
- Maintain required permits, licenses, harvesting documentation, environmental records, and compliance reports.
- Coordinate with forestry authorities, environmental agencies, landowners, local communities, and other stakeholders.
- Prepare management reports covering timber inventory, harvesting performance, costs, sales, quality, compliance, and sustainability.
- Identify opportunities to improve timber recovery, operational efficiency, profitability, and resource utilization.
- Evaluate new harvesting technologies, remote monitoring systems, mechanization, automation, and data-driven forestry practices.
- Lead continuous-improvement initiatives supporting sustainable timber production and long-term forest value.
Key Performance Indicators
- Sustainable annual harvest volume.
- Timber inventory accuracy.
- Harvest productivity.
- Timber recovery and utilization rate.
- Timber quality and grade performance.
- Timber waste and damage rates.
- Cost per unit of timber harvested.
- Contractor productivity and compliance.
- Harvest schedule adherence.
- Timber delivery reliability.
- Transportation cost efficiency.
- Timber sales volume and revenue.
- Average selling price by product or grade.
- Customer satisfaction.
- Inventory turnover.
- Forest regeneration success.
- Post-harvest compliance.
- Soil and water protection performance.
- Environmental incident frequency.
- Worker safety performance.
- Regulatory compliance.
- Forest-road availability.
- Equipment utilization and uptime.
- Budget adherence.
- Forecast accuracy.
- Supplier and contractor performance.
- Sustainability and certification performance.
- Continuous-improvement savings and productivity gains.
Ideal Candidate
The successful candidate should have substantial experience in forestry, timber management, logging operations, forest products, natural-resource management, or a related field, preferably within commercial forestry or large-scale timber operations.
The candidate should demonstrate:
- Strong knowledge of timber harvesting, forest inventory, wood products, and sustainable forestry practices.
- Understanding of forest growth, regeneration, stand management, and timber valuation.
- Experience managing harvesting contractors, forestry crews, logistics providers, or field operations.
- Strong knowledge of timber measurement, grading, sorting, handling, and inventory control.
- Experience with timber sales, customer management, contracts, pricing, or forest-product markets.
- Familiarity with GIS, GPS, remote sensing, forest inventory systems, and forestry-management software.
- Strong understanding of environmental protection, forest conservation, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience managing operational budgets, procurement, contractors, and resources.
- Strong analytical and commercial decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent planning, organization, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong understanding of forestry health and safety requirements.
- Ability to manage multiple harvesting programs, contractors, deadlines, and operational risks.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to operational detail.
- A sustainability-focused, commercially aware, data-driven, and continuous-improvement mindset.