• Home
• Apply
• Go To College
• Get Money
• Prepare
• Plan a Career
• About Us
• Support

Career Details :: First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Logging Workers

Description

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of logging workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same logging work as the workers they supervise.

Experience

A minimum of two to four years of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. For example, an accountant must complete four years of college and work for several years in accounting to be considered qualified.

Education

Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.

Training

Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, and/or vocational training.

Tasks

• Determines methods for logging operations, size of crew, and equipment requirements.
• Confers with mill, company, and government forestry officials to determine safest and most efficient method of logging tract.
• Plans and schedules logging operations, such as felling and bucking trees, grading and sorting logs, and yarding and loading logs.
• Assigns workers to duties, such as trees to be cut, cutting sequence and specifications, and loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
• Changes logging operations or methods to eliminate unsafe conditions and warns or disciplines workers disregarding safety regulations.
• Coordinates selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements of wood products plant.
• Prepares production and personnel time records for management.
• Coordinates dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new worksite.
• Trains workers in felling and bucking trees, operating tractors and loading machines, yarding and loading techniques, and safety regulations.
• Oversees logging operations to identify and solve problems and ensure safety and company regulations are being followed.

Related Careers

• Chefs and Head Cooks
  
• First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Animal Care Workers, Except Livestock
  
• First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Extractive Workers
  
• First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Horticultural Workers
  
• First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors of Landscaping Workers
  
• Janitorial Supervisors
  
• Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters
  

Important Abilities

• Oral Expression
• Problem Sensitivity
• Information Ordering
• Written Expression
• Oral Comprehension

General Work Activities

• Performing General Physical Activities
• Communicating With Other Workers
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Coordinating Work & Activities of Others
• Scheduling Work and Activities

Important Skills

• Coordination
  
• Time Management
  
• Management of Personnel Resources
  
• Implementation Planning
  
• Instructing
  

Frequent Work Context

• Job-Required Social Interaction
• Responsibility for Outcomes and Results
• Responsible for Others' Health & Safety
• Supervise, Coach, Train Others
• Consequence of Error

Related Majors

Major	Add to XapPack
Contract Major	[ add ]
Elected Studies	[ add ]
Elective Studies	[ add ]
Independent Major	[ add ]
Independent Scholar	[ add ]
Independent Studies	[ add ]
Individual Major	[ add ]
Individual Studies	[ add ]
Individualized Interdisciplinary Studies	[ add ]
Individualized Major	[ add ]
Individualized Majors	[ add ]
Individualized Programs	[ add ]
Individualized Studies	[ add ]
Individualized Study	[ add ]
Individually Designed Major	[ add ]
Individually Designed Programs	[ add ]
Individually Planned Major	[ add ]
Interdepartmental Major	[ add ]
Interdisciplinary Studies	[ add ]
Selected Studies	[ add ]
Self-Designed Major	[ add ]
Self-Designed Majors	[ add ]
Self-Determined Majors	[ add ]
Self-Planned Program	[ add ]
Special Divisional Major	[ add ]
Special Major	[ add ]
Special Majors	[ add ]
Special Studies	[ add ]
Specialized Studies	[ add ]
Student-Designed Major	[ add ]
Student-Initiated Interdepartmental Major	[ add ]
Topical Major	[ add ]
Tutorial Studies	[ add ]
University Major/Individualized	[ add ]

Institutions Offering Related Majors

No institutions found.