If you know forestry, harvesting operations, and utilization standards, and you'd rather be in the bush than in a boardroom, read on.

The job

You run clearing on the ground. Timber salvage execution, contractor oversight, volume and disposition tracking, and the daily reporting the client counts on. You report to our Senior Advisor, Forestry, and work shoulder to shoulder with the Environmental Inspector, the Construction Manager, and the Environmental Construction Coordinator on every spread.

Winter is the busy season. Twelve hour days, camp or hotel rotations, cold weather, and construction pace. Wages reflect that, and for the right person they can be high.

Have GIS skills? The work carries through the shoulder seasons on regular hours. Salvage planning, volume modelling, mapping, and reporting keep you busy after the clearing window closes.

What you'll be doing

- Supervising clearing and salvage crews on active right-of-way in Alberta and BC
- Making merchantable calls and holding crews to the applicable utilization standards, Alberta's under the Timber Management Regulation and operating ground rules, BC's under the timber merchantability specifications tied to the Master Licence to Cut or Occupant Licence to Cut
- Timber damage assessment, volume reconciliation, dues and stumpage submissions, and waste assessment in BC
- Deck layout, hauling coordination, mill delivery, and scale ticket reconciliation
- Managing subcontractors on scope, schedule, and quality
- Tailgates, hazard assessments, incident reporting, field records, and photo documentation
- Supporting crew members and community-based contractors through on-the-job training

What you need

- RPF or RPFT in valuable standing with the College of Alberta Professional Foresters, or eligible and actively pursuing registration
- 3+ years supervising forestry operations
- Solid grasp of utilization standards,



timber disposition, and volume reconciliation
- GPS and mapping competence (Avenza, ArcGIS or QGIS)
- Class 5 licence, and the ability to pass a pre-access drug and alcohol test

Oil and gas experience is an asset. Pipeline clearing experience is not required, and we'll train the pipeline-specific side. BC credentials aren't required yet. Neither is prior experience working with Indigenous communities. Missing safety tickets? Tell us. We support ticket acquisition for people we want.

What we offer

- Wages at the top of the market for the season and the hours
- Profit sharing
- Subsistence and lodging when working away from home
- Truck provided, or kilometre payments if you run your own
- Year-round work if you take on the GIS and planning side
- Staff or subcontract, whichever fits how you want to work

Who you'd be working for Ripplewood is an Indigenous-owned environmental and forestry firm in Calgary, working alongside Steel River Group, founded by an Inuit entrepreneur. Steel River works with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities on economic and social development, and helps organizations build the capability that real Indigenous partnership takes.

What that means day to day: the money the work generates goes back into the crews doing it and the communities the line runs through. Local hiring, training, and long-term capacity are in the scope, not bolted on after. If you want the work you supervise to leave something behind, come do it here.

Apply

Please apply through Indeed. If that is not possible, send a resume and a short note on your operations experience to [email protected]

Posting closes August 30.

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Pay: $30.00-$70.00 per hour

Benefits

- Company car
- Housing allowance
- Mileage reimbursement
- Profit sharing

Work Location: In person

📌 Forestry Operations Supervisor (Calgary)
🏢 Ripplewood Professional Services
📍 Calgary