Resource Forester: Island Plantation & GIS Lead

HR4Business; Australia; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flight paid from Darwin

Private camp accommodation

Job summary

Plantation Management Partners Pty Ltd has been appointed Manager of the Tiwi Plantations Pty Ltd plantation establishment project on the Tiwi Islands, aiming to establish over 30,000 hectares of eucalyptus plantations and becoming Australia’s largest carbon plantation initiative.

Based at Yapilika Forestry Centre on Melville Island, you’ll sit in a small management group, reporting to the Project Manager as the technical authority on resource management across the plantation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Forestry or equivalent.
• 3–5 years' experience in plantation forestry with silvicultural knowledge.
• Working competence in GIS and inventory systems.
• Current driver’s license.
• The judgement to make calls independently.

Responsibilities

• Maintain plantation spatial databases, maps, and GIS systems for planning, monitoring, and reporting.
• Provide accurate spatial analysis and technical tools supporting operational management, regulatory compliance, carbon reporting, and resource planning.
• Maintain plantation records, inventory systems, and resource forecasts that underpin operational, financial, carbon, and stakeholder reporting.
• Coordinate and analyse inventory, growth, yield, and resource assessment data, owning data quality and calling the corrective actions when something doesn’t stack up.
• Develop plantation establishment, maintenance, and harvesting plans, including budgets, schedules, resource requirements, and operational instructions.
• Monitor performance against targets and drive productivity, efficiency, data quality, and cost improvements.
• Scope, tender and manage contractor agreements, monitoring performance, quality and compliance on site.
• Develop and maintain fire management plans, firebreak networks and seasonal preparedness in a monsoonal fire regime.

Skills

GIS proficiency

Inventory management

Independent decision making

Education

Bachelor of Forestry

Tools

Driver's license

Job description

Plantation Management Partners Pty Ltd has been appointed Manager of the Tiwi Plantations Pty Ltd plantation establishment project on the Tiwi Islands, aiming to establish over 30,000 hectares of eucalyptus plantations and becoming Australia’s largest carbon plantation initiative.

Based at Yapilika Forestry Centre on Melville Island, you’ll sit in a small management group, reporting to the Project Manager as the technical authority on resource management across the plantation.