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Forest Operations

Plans and supervises everything that happens in the forest: harvest planning, roading, landings, mechanised and manual felling, log loading and haulage, silviculture, regeneration and bushfire readiness across the plantation estate and the native forest allocation.

Forest Operations Manager42 staff
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Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Prepare and approve coupe harvest plans
  • Supervise harvesting and haulage crews and contractors
  • Build and maintain forest roads, snig tracks and landings
  • Deliver planting, pruning, thinning and regeneration programs
  • Maintain fire readiness and respond to fire on the estate
Performance measures

How we know it is working

97%
Harvest volume to plan
0 this year
Lost time injuries
92% of coupes
Regeneration success
People

Who works here

SK

Sinead Kavanagh

Forest Operations Manager

Sinead approves every harvest plan, manages the harvesting and haulage contractors and has run forest operations at Mount Gambier for seven years.

JC

Jarrah Coulthard

Harvesting Supervisor

Jarrah supervises the plantation harvesting crews, runs coupe pre-starts and toolbox talks and has operated harvesters and forwarders for eleven years.

Systems

Where the work is recorded

Harvest and Haulage Planner

The register of coupe harvest plans, crews, haulage arrangements and daily coupe records for the plantation estate and the native forest allocation.

Safety and Environment Register

Records injuries, near misses, hazards, environmental events and toolbox talks across all sites, with investigation status and corrective actions.

Log Yard and Stock Register

Tracks every log batch, kiln charge and sawn pack from receipt to despatch, with grade, volume, bay location and certification status.

Scenarios

Assessment tasks in this department

Entry

Run the coupe pre-start at Kalangadoo North

You are a new harvesting crew member on Crew A at the Mount Gambier plantation estate.

Advanced

Draft the harvest plan for Nangwarry West

You are the Harvest Planning Officer reporting to the Forest Operations Manager.

Advanced

Prepare the regeneration plan for the Gippsland coupes

You are the Forest Management Officer reporting to the Forest Operations Manager.

Documents

Documents the scenarios use