FOREST INVENTORY ANALYST - EL DORADO, AR AND SPOKANE, WA

Support the forest planning, inventory and environmental programs and provide decision support. The individual will have a lead role in key company initiatives including harvest scheduling, growth and yield modelling, silviculture, inventory cruising, development of integrated geo-spatial and forest data tools, year-end inventory, carbon and GHG calculations and reporting.

The salary range for this position is $54,439.05-$90,731.75.

The position is bonus eligible, with a target value of 10% of salary.

Forest Management Planning Support:

• Data management and testing.
• Provide project-level data analyses, and decision support.
• Work with IT in developing integrated data and spatial management tools derived from remote sensing.
• Lead the development and implementation of geospatial tools to improve efficiency of forest management.
• Provide assistance in applied statistics/data analysis to foresters, biologists, and other natural resources professionals.
• Provide group and/or individual training as needed.

Data Quality Assurance/Control:

• Develop and document procedures to ensure the validity and credibility of all resource data, analyses and reports.
• Ensure procedures for routine inventory updates are understandable and followed during inventory acquisition.
• Ensure that sample designs and intensities are consistent, reproducible, and appropriate to the resource and management objectives.
• Support Timberlands Carbon, and GHG accounting and reporting.

Year-end Inventory Update:

• Support annual year-end forest inventory tabular data update that produces revised forest inventory estimates by region and product.
• Lead the effort to ensure high quality data through ongoing QA/QC procedures and tracking and categorizing changes to the inventory throughout the year.
• Provide preliminary system test procedures (dry run) to scope out issues prior to final year-end updating.

Requirements:

• Master’s degree in forestry, biometrics, statistics, natural sciences, resource management or related field
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Excel, Access, and Word
• General understanding of business organization, management planning processes and investment strategies
• Ability to plan, organize, coordinate, and implement using a team approach to problem solving
• Effectively interact and communicate with unit managers, district foresters, senior resource foresters and resource foresters in each region and the members of the Forest Planning and Inventory work
• Demonstrated proficiency in statistics and ability to apply it to a wide range of data analysis, forest inventory applications, and growth and yield modelling
• Proficiency or familiarity with R/RStudio, SAS/JMP, Python, SQL and/or spatial planning software (Remsoft preferred)
• Familiarity with growth modelling systems such as Forest Projection System (FPS), Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and Southern States growth model (SiMS) (preferred)
• Proficiency with natural resource modelling, ArcGIS, and GPS
• Primarily in an office setting
• Some time may be spent outdoors and subject to adverse weather and terrain conditions
• Travel may be required

We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401 (k), life and disability insurance, paid time off and additional voluntary benefits.