Woodyard and Wood Procurement Manager
Domtar
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Plymouth • North Carolina • United States
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About the role
- Set strategic direction as part of the Plant Leadership Team in health and safety, environmental compliance, sustainability, quality, productivity, and cost.
- Compile and prepare corporate reports while ensuring accuracy and compliance with regulations.
- Responsible for motivation and success of a unionized Woodyard with self-directed employees and 5 direct leadership reports.
- Manage the mill’s woodyard operations to ensure safe, efficient, and economical movement, storage, delivery, and processing of wood.
- Manage planning and procurement of all wood fiber to sustain the Plymouth Mill’s operations.
- Develop short- and long-term sourcing strategies to ensure fiber procurement is sustainable at the lowest cost.
- Ensure adherence to environmental policies and regulations.
- Develop and manage fiber procurement and woodyard operating budgets, including capital.
- Ensure that all objectives related to efficiency, productivity, quality, cost, environment and health and safety are reached or surpassed.
- Manage wood inventory, ensuring accurate tracking of volumes.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers and develop working relationships with governmental and public agencies.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in forestry or related field
- No less than ten years of job-related experience or equivalent
- In-depth knowledge of business principles
- Ability to manage off-hours and weekend emergency calls
- Driving is a key requirement to fulfill key accountabilities
- Knowledge of wood and fiber procurement processes and woodyard operations
- Knowledge of forest management as it relates to the Sustainable Forestry Initiative and the Forest Stewardship Council standards
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Effective communicator in small and large group settings
- Working knowledge of capital budgets and long-range planning
- Knowledge of safety and environmental laws and regulations as they apply to procurement and logging functions
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Hard Skills & Tools
fiber procurementwoodyard operationscapital budgetinglong-range planningenvironmental compliancesustainabilityquality managementproductivity managementcost managementforest management
Soft Skills
interpersonal communicationeffective communicationleadershipmotivationrelationship buildingteam managementstrategic directionproblem-solvingorganizational skillsemergency management
Certifications
Bachelor of Science degree in forestrySustainable Forestry InitiativeForest Stewardship Council standards