Works Supervisor
| Posting date: | 18 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £29,171 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 July 2025 |
| Location: | NE48 1BB |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 411628/1 |
Summary
Reporting to the Kielder West forester, during the winter months you will run Hawkhope depot and the supply of trees saplings to the district; then during the summer have autonomy to devise your own work programme assisting the foresters in the wider Kielder area to deliver their work programmes.
Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you.
Where you’ll work…
This role is based in the Kielder West beat which covers 12,600 Ha of conifer forests, mixed woodland and SSSIs. You will be based from Hawkhope Depot at Falstone, NE48 1BB.
During winter months
- supervise Hawkhope Depot and coldstore. Duties will include receiving trees from suppliers, checking quality, ensuring supply to treatment facility and dispatching trees to site, completing dispatch notes, all will a high level of accuracy.
- contribute to key programmes by managing stocks, deliveries and dispatches of fencing materials and chemicals to work sites.
- assist with fulfilling the plant orders of the district and supervise the pre-planting treatment programme of around 1.5M saplings, this will involve a portion of the week working on a forklift.
During summer months
- supervise operational contracts including harvesting standing sales, ground preparation, fencing, estate management and recreation provision in order to identify health, safety, and environmental issues then to take corrective action as required.
- plan, deliver, and supervise work programmes for contractors and staff to ensure compliance with the UK Forestry Standard and UK Woodland Assurance Standard, monitor and record progress against the contract or work schedule
- assist and support the Beat Foresters in collecting operational data for tasks such as the marking of trees for sale, tree safety inspections, fence line and boundary checks, pests and diseases and the assessment of tree density numbers on restocked and newly planted sites.
- complete site assessments and gathering data / information to inform operational planning, for example measuring timber for sale and maintaining stock records.
and any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager
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