Forestry Supervisor

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Forestry Supervisor

Job Function Summary:

Manages vegetation in proximity to electrical facilities to promote resiliency transmission services.

Supervisor, Forestry/7343

Grade 8/EX

M1 - Supervisor

Career Level Summary

• Supervises the daily activities of business support, technicians, and/or production teams
• Sets priorities for the team to ensure task completion; coordinates work activities with other supervisors
• Decisions are guided by policies, procedures, and the local business plan; receives guidance and oversight from manager
• Typically does not perform the work supervised

Vegetation Management - Forestry Services & Maintenance Supervises a team responsible for the vegetation management maintenance program and other services; provides daily supervision of team, ensuring that relevant standards/procedures are followed, including safety rules; provides coaching and guidance to employees; monitors performance; implements process improvements; ensures compliance with collective bargaining agreement; supports new hire training and onboarding.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy and Planning Either collaboratively or individually develops and implements strategy and vision for team; collaborates with other departments to ensure teams have tools and equipment needed to deliver services to customers; collaboratively or individually develops performance standards for team; develops and implements plans to facilitate employee engagement.

Safety Observes employees and contractors to ensure they are following all safety rules; conducts field visits to ensure members have the appropriate tools and equipment to perform work safely; resolves safety issues/concerns in an appropriate and timely manner; communicates safety lessons learned and promotes continuous learning of safe work methods, practices and procedures.

Vendor Management Manage vendor relationships, including selecting vendors, establishing metrics and service level agreements, monitoring vendor performance, and working with vendors to resolve issues.

Financial Management Monitors and manages expenditures, ensuring financial targets are met, and examines any areas where budgets/expenditures vary from plan; monitors and optimizes operational effectiveness.

Resourcing May develop resource plans for team; implements resourcing decisions; partners with HR and other leaders in the recruitment, evaluation, and selection processes.

Professional Development Maintains knowledge of skill-development tools/resources; advises on required outcomes for learning or development from knowledge of available tools and organizational development needs; assists employees in creating development plans and monitors progress.

Education

Requires a bachelor's degree in Forestry, Natural Resources, Horticulture or related field or equivalent experience.

Experience

Prefer five or more years of experience in vegetation management, utility operations, or related field with at least three years of formal or informal leadership experience.

Certifications, Licenses and Training

Licenses: ISA Certified Arborist, ISA Utility Specialist, ISA TRAQ, ODA Pesticide Consultant, and ISA Board Certified Master Arborist.

Any missing licenses shall be required within 6 months of obtaining position.

Functional Competencies

Advanced knowledge of Vegetation processes and procedures.

Advanced knowledge of vegetation clearances related to distribution and transmission.

Advanced knowledge of laws and regulations related to facilities management and commercial and/or industrial real estate

Advanced knowledge of vendor contracts and management.

Intermediate knowledge of employment law

Intermediate knowledge of design and sustainability principles

Intermediate skills in strategy setting

Working knowledge of systems used in department

Advanced skills in reading specifications and drawings

Intermediate knowledge of utility regulations and tariffs

Intermediate skills in project management

Intermediate skills in using data

Intermediate knowledge of budgeting

General Competencies

Advanced skills in customer focus

Advanced skills intact and diplomacy

Advanced interpersonal skills

Intermediate influence skills

Advanced skills in organization and prioritization

Advanced communication skills

Advanced process management skills

Advanced problem-solving skills

Intermediate performance management skills

Leader Practices

Drives Results

Plans and Aligns

Decision Quality

Drives Engagement

Courage

Cognitive Level

Substantial: Consistent use of logic or scientific thinking to define problems, collect information, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions (for example, engineer, HR director, plant manager, etc.).

Cognitive

Ability to adhere to set response times, deadlines, and time-sensitive tasks

Ability to follow accuracy standards

Ability to follow through on decision-making tasks

Ability to interact effectively and collaboratively within a team environment

Ability to communicate and problem solve when under stress

Ability to respond and adapt to frequent change

Ability to accept and demonstrate self-awareness when provided constructive feedback

Ability to discern feedback and acknowledge ownership of areas of improvement

Ability to avoid future mistakes by applying reasonable skills to new but similar work situations or tasks

Ability to successfully collaborate with peers, managers, and others within the organization

Demonstrates sound memory

Ability to process new information to be applied consistently to work tasks

Schedule/ Attendance

Ability to work long hours [typically for exempt positions; if included in nonexempt positions, overtime applies]

Ability to work a variable schedule

Ability to report to work and perform work during periods of severe inclement weather

Ability to consistently meet attendance standards for regular, reliable, predictable, full-time attendance [for part-time positions, change to part-time attendance]

Ability to work shift schedule

Ability to work on-call schedule

Physical Capabilities

Does the job require a valid driver's license? Yes

Driving/travel/commute

Daily within service territory

Frequently (at least once a week or more)

Computer use (use computer regularly for entire work shift)

Environment

Office environment

Field environment

Compensation Range:

Actual total compensation, including a performance based incentive bonus, is commensurate with experience, skills, qualifications, education, training, and internal equity. While we anticipate the selected candidate for this position will fall towards the middle or entry point of the compensation range, the decision will be made on a case-by-case basis.

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