Ministry of Forests
Williams Lake (Hybrid)

Engineering Technologist
$69,760.70 - $79,322.69 annually

Join our Engineering Team, a dedicated group responsible for maintaining and monitoring roads and major access structures within our business area. The team also constructs and deactivates roads throughout the region, ensuring our forest service roads are safe and environmentally compliant. Comprising four staff members, our team works with the Timber Development, Planning and Silviculture Teams. Their work is crucial in achieving our quarterly goals, managing a substantial budget and ensuring safety and environmental standards are met. We value this team’s operational focus, high productivity and effective collaboration with contractors.

As an Engineering Technologist, you will manage contractors to ensure roads and access structures are monitored and maintained. Your work will impact the safety of all users of our network of forest service roads. This position offers a unique opportunity within the government to engage in hands-on, operational activities across a large area in the Cariboo Chilcotin. Applicants will be inspired by the chance to manage multiple large-scale construction projects and gain invaluable field experience. To learn more, check out the BCTS website and video.

Qualifications for this role include:

• Graduation from an approved technical institute with a diploma or degree in resource or forestry management and three years of experience in one or more operational field forestry activities. OR
• An equivalent combination of education or experience such as five years of experience in one or more area of operational field forestry.
• Operational field forestry activities include one or more of the following:
  • Timber harvesting monitoring/conformance
  • Cut-block development
  • Forest road engineering
  • Silviculture
  • Timber tenure development and administration
• Applicants must be registered or eligible for registration with Forest Professionals British Columbia (FPBC) as a Registered Forest Technologist or equivalent.
• Must possess at minimum a valid Class 5 B.C. Driver’s License that does not limit or restrict the ability to conduct the duties of the job.

For more information and to apply online by September 4, 2024, please go to: https://bcpublicservice.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/114960