Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests
Duty Location: Kooskia, Idaho
Outreach deadline: October 16, 2015
The position is anticipated to be advertised for two weeks in October 2015. The Forest provides a unique learning and training experience for all levels of sale administration and sale preparation, due to our active sale program, diverse logging systems and terrain, and extensive interaction with other resources.
Assets to the job include skyline logging working knowledge, Global Positioning System (GPS) and ARCMAP GIS capabilities, NEPA and presale knowledge, in addition to the sale administration experience.
Specific program duties and responsibilities include the following:
- Administration of complex logging systems, timber sale contracts, and stewardship contracts that would include a majority of the following complexities:
- Complex log accountability requirements,
- Tractor, Forwarder, Helicopter and Skyline yarding systems,
- Streamside Management Zones with special protection requirements,
- Tractor yarding and pre-designating skid trials,
- Harvest within the visual corridors and adjacent to private property, major forest roads, or state/federal highways,
- Endangered, threatened, or sensitive species of plants or animals within the sale area requiring specific action and/or protection measures by the sale administrator,
- Designation by Description or Prescription through Stewardship Contracts.
- Applies the technical methods, practices, and procedures of timber sale administration as well as management practices, agency policies and programs, to execute complete conventional projects or oversee day-to-day field operations in the area of timber sale administration.
- Reviews and assists in development of the contract and related pre-sale data such as the logging plan, environmental assessment report, appraisal, etc.
- Determines that all prerequisites to contract work are handled, such as advance deposits, delegations of authority, road construction and timber cutting coordination, improvement locations, operating schedule, logging plan preparation, scaling arrangements, and environmental protection measures.
- Reviews plans and schedules with purchasers to assure common understanding of conditions and responsibilities.
- Responsible for continuing field inspection and control of purchaser’s operations such as felling, skidding, and yarding, loading and hauling.
- Determines whether utilization, slash disposal, and erosion control work is adequate.
- Documents all findings for the sale record.
- Advises purchaser’s field representative of adequacy or inadequacy of operations and achieves compliance with contract terms, including safety and employment requirements.
- Determines when log hauling may be allowed on system roads.
- Initiates requests for payment, bond changes, or cooperative work.
- Reviews timber sale statement of account and maintains controls to ensure that all payments and deposits are made.
- Coordinates sale administration duties with other timber and related activities.
- Serves as the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) on service and/or stewardship contracts.
- Ensures that all contractual obligations are met before making final inspection, work acceptance, and ultimately recommending sale closure.
- Occasionally serves as Interdisciplinary Team member. Analyzes timber sale proposals or options for each alternative and prepares specialist reports.
- Assists in timber sale layout and other presale duties as available.
