First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors - Logging Workers

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of logging workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same logging work as the workers they supervise.

Job Task

• Plans and schedules logging operations, such as felling and bucking trees, grading and sorting logs, and yarding and loading logs.
• Assigns workers to duties, such as trees to be cut, cutting sequence and specifications, and loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
• Determines methods for logging operations, size of crew, and equipment requirements.
• Coordinates dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new worksite.
• Oversees logging operations to identify and solve problems, and ensure safety and company regulations are being followed.
• Coordinates selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements of wood products plant.
• Confers with mill, company, and government forestry officials to determine safest and most efficient method of logging tract.
• Prepares production and personnel time records for management.
• Trains workers in felling and bucking trees, operating tractors and loading machines, yarding and loading techniques, and safety regulations.
• Changes logging operations or methods to eliminate unsafe conditions, and warns or disciplines workers disregarding safety regulations.

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