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Job Description
Directly supervise and coordinate activities of logging workers.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-1011.05
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “First-Line Supervisors of Logging Workers”.
Also Known As…
- First-Line Supervisors of Logging Workers
- Trucking Supervisor
- Logging Supervisor
- Logging Crew Supervisor
- Logging Crew Foreman
- Harvesting Supervisor
- Feller Buncher Operator (FB Operator)
- Crew Supervisor
- Crew Leader
- Crew Foreman
- Woods Superintendent
- Woods Rider
- Woods Boss
- Turpentine Farmer
- Saw Superintendent
- Saw Boss
- Press Supervisor
- Logging Superintendent
- Logging Contractor
- Log Sorting Supervisor
- Loader Operator Supervisor
- Head Swamper
- Head Sawyer
- Head Rigger
- Head Loader
- Head Chopper
- Head Bucker
- Forestry Supervisor
- Forestry Foreman
- Felling-Bucking Supervisor
- Buck Swamper
Tasks for “Loader Operator Supervisor”
- Plan or schedule logging operations, such as felling or bucking trees or grading, sorting, yarding, or loading logs.
- Monitor workers to ensure that safety regulations are followed, warning or disciplining those who violate safety regulations.
- Change logging operations or methods to eliminate unsafe conditions.
- Monitor logging operations to identify and solve problems, improve work methods, and ensure compliance with safety, company, and government regulations.
- Determine logging operation methods, crew sizes, or equipment requirements, conferring with mill, company, or forestry officials as necessary.
- Schedule work crews, equipment, or transportation for several different work locations.
- Supervise or coordinate the activities of workers engaged in logging operations or silvicultural operations.
- Coordinate the selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements.
- Assign to workers duties such as trees to be cut, cutting sequences and specifications, or loading of trucks, railcars, or rafts.
- Coordinate dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new work sites.
- Communicate with forestry personnel regarding forest harvesting or forest management plans, procedures, or schedules.
- Prepare production or personnel time records for management.
- Train workers in tree felling or bucking, operation of tractors or loading machines, yarding or loading techniques, or safety regulations.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hand saws
- Hard hats
- Mobile logging cranes
- Portable data collectors
- Logging arches
- Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles
- Gas-powered generators
- Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers
- Two way radios
- Pruning shears
- Front end loaders
- Stroke delimbers
- Tracked excavators
- Tracked bulldozers
- Pullthrough delimbers
- Cable winches
- Grapple yarders
- Hoisting racks
- Logging tractors
- Personal computers
- Axes
- Video camera systems
- Grapple processors
- Knuckleboom loaders
- Timber tongs
- Chain flail delimbers
- Air compressors
- Backhoes
- Measuring tapes
- Chain saws
- Debarking tools
- Delimbing gates
- Sonar equipment
- Sawbucks
- Log skidders
- Feller bunchers
- Landmark Sales LOG-istics
- Word processing software
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Office
- BCS Woodlands Software The Logger Tracker
- Mapping software
- TradeTec Computer Systems TallyWorks Logs
- Database software