Responsibilities

• Manage and develop regional stumpage harvesting program, including sales to external markets
• Identify and purchase tracts of standing timber to meet company harvesting objectives
• Identify and develop new dedicated logging/hauling capacity
• Develop and maintain productive relationships with loggers harvesting Enviva stumpage tracts
• Uphold and maintain positive representation of Enviva’s values with suppliers and within the local industry and community
• Maintain intimate knowledge of stumpage logger operating capacity, and work in conjunction to maximize harvest production while balancing costs/weather/tract/market factors
• Ensure logger harvest/delivery plans consistently satisfy supply demands defined by Regional Fiber Supply Manager
• Manage and monitor product merchandising & marketing on stumpage tracts to meet/exceed tract purchase goals.
• Ensure stumpage loggers provide current and accurate contractual, insurance, and stumpage tract harvest documentation/requirements to administrative staff
• Provide required tract purchase requisition/setup information to administrative staff to ensure timely stumpage and harvesting payment
• Perform required forestry/sustainability related field audits
• Perform stumpage tract related field work (mark boundary lines, collect and monitor delivery tickets and log books, ensure adequate logging best practices during harvest, address access road and miscellaneous landowner concerns, occasional timber tract cruising, etc)

Qualifications

• • 5+ year experience buying / selling timber in the forest products industry
  • An associates / bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution is preferred, with a focus in forestry and / or business administration
  • Proficiency in solid mathematical skills
  • Working knowledge of basic forestry, logging best practices, and chipping operations
  • Ability to work independently and safely in remote outdoor environments and around heavy equipment
  • Willingness to travel, with occasional overnight stays required
  • A valid driver’s license
  • Demonstrated proficiency in communication skills to support developing and maintaining supplier relationships
  • Demonstrated proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office software, particularly Microsoft Excel
  • Humble – open to receiving constructive feedback for continuous improvement, quick to point out the contributions of others, shares credit
  • Hungry – Self-motivated and diligent, confident working alone, constantly thinking about the next step and the next opportunity to help the team succeed, willing to step outside of area of direct responsibility to get the job done, focuses on achieving results / outcomes
  • Enterprise focus – Be a catalyst to drive enterprise-based decision making in the procurement area and contribute as a “good team player” on Team Projects.
  • People Smart – Interpersonally appropriate and aware – demonstrate good judgment and intuition around the subtleties of group dynamics and the impact of words and actions

Working Conditions

• Must be able to work in outdoor environments and occasionally in temperatures above 100 degrees and below 32 degrees
• Willing and able to work in a hot, humid, cold and noisy industrial environment
• Willing and able to maintain strict adherence to safety rules and regulations, to include wearing safety equipment.

Physical Requirements

• Willing and able to perform tasks such as lifting, walking, climbing, stooping, standing, pushing and/or pulling for up to twelve (12) hours a day
• Willing and able to work around moving equipment and machinery
• Willing and able to pull and lift, up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.