- South Africa
- Salary: R20 000.00 - R40 000.00 Per Month
- Job Type: Permanent
- Sectors: Agriculture
- Reference: 50561
Vacancy Details
Employer: SAPPI
* Build, maintain and reinforce a “predict and prevent” safety culture in all integrated operations
* Inspect operations regularly to identify risks & ensure that timeous action (blanking & pest control, coppice management) is undertaken.
* Plan & conduct regular field inspections to ensure that crops, through the timing of operations (weed control, pest & disease management), achieve maximum yields within cost constraints.
* Ensure that plantations use the Fire Risk Management System (FRMS) to identify risks. Record & implement fire control procedures in order to ensure the effective protection of people, plantations and other assets from forest fires.
* Develop a tactical plan & ensure that the annual plan of operations for both commercial and open areas comply with standards and service level agreements
* Develop a pre-harvest plan per compartment in collaboration with the Contractor and Silviculture.
* Conduct a risk assessment per compartment in order to mitigate potential risks.
* Ensure that the Harvesting budget is managed effectively by ensuring sales target tons/per day is achieved.
* Compile in conjunction with Roads Engineer, annual tactical road maintenance plan.
* Scheduling of short-haul and loading operations to ensure rail/road transport is released on time.
* Ensure that company assets such as buildings, villages and company houses are maintained and managed effectively according to set standards (hygiene & legal compliance) and within budget constraints.
* Ensure that relations with communities, other internal and external stakeholders are effectively maintained and managed in order to ensure company image is upheld, risks mitigated and relationships enhanced. What are we looking for?
* National Diploma in Forestry or related qualification
* Minimum of three years relevant experience.
* Valid driver’s license. What’s in it for you?
* Opportunity to work within a global organisation that continues to thrive in a rapidly changing world even after 80 years of existence.
* Learning and development programmes to fast-track your career within Sappi.
* Opportunities to travel (dependent on upon the role).
* Market leading leave benefits.
* Employee well-being benefits.
Candidate Requirements
What are we looking for?* National Diploma in Forestry or related qualification
* Minimum of three years relevant experience.
* Valid driver’s license.
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About SAPPI
Sappi was formed in South Africa in 1936 to serve South African consumers with locally produced paper.
We have a tradition of innovating and developing new products to meet local demand for newsprint, uncoated graphic and business papers, packaging and speciality papers used and protect our customers’ products especially in the agricultural sector and speciality papers used in the convenience food, confectionery, cosmetic and luxury markets, and tissue products for household, medical and industrial use in the Southern Africa region.
We are also the world's largest manufacturer of dissolving wood pulp (DWP), which are used worldwide by converters to create viscose fibre for fashionable clothing and textiles, acetate tow, pharmaceutical products as well as a wide range of consumer and household products. Almost all of the production of our mills in South Africa is exported.
Our headquarters in Johannesburg (South Africa), manages the sub-divisions of Sappi Forests, Sappi Paper and Paper Packaging, and Sappi Specialised Cellulose. A number of regional functions like finance, human resources, sales and marketing, technical and engineering as well as board functions are also based there.
We are looking for people with the right attributes
Whether you’re mild or wild at heart, you could have what it takes to work in forestry.
We’re looking for people who...
Are hardworking, passionate, and professional;
Share our ambitions to be the benchmark in forestry;
Will take well-considered risks to grow the value of our business and returns for our shareholders; and Own their work and have pride in it.
Like a blank sheet of paper, a career at Sappi offers infinite possibilities. There has never been a better time to build a career at Sappi.
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