Senior Forest Manager

Galbraith is a leading land management firm operating across Scotland and Northern England providing advice on forestry, farm, land and estate interests totalling over 1.5 million hectares.

Your New Role

Galbraith Forestry manages over 30,000 hectares of privately owned commercial and estate forestry and delivers woodland creation schemes of all types up and down the country, ranging from farm woodlands to upland plantations and landscape scale native woodland schemes.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Senior Forest Manager to join our growing team in Perth. The purpose of the role will be to lead the team to assist with our growing portfolio of clients across central and north Scotland, with opportunities to take responsibility and ownership for a varied client work.
In this role, you will be included in many aspects of forestry including organising and supervising forestry and woodland contract operations using independent contractors, new planting, restocking and woodland maintenance operations. You will also be responsible for securing necessary consents and appropriate grants, and woodland assessment, mapping preparation of reports and long-term plans.

About You

You will ideally have ICF membership and a good working knowledge of FGS and UK Forestry Standard is essential. You must have strong IT skills, specifically in GIS applications in forestry. Excellent communication with colleagues, clients, contractors and stakeholders is essential. Importantly, you will be able to work accurately and efficiently with a focus on delivery and a pro-active approach to solving problems.
A full UK Driving Licence is essential.

What We Offer

In return, we offer a competitive salary of between £40k-£50k depending on experience, along with our perks & benefits package which includes enhanced holidays, company pension, employee assistance programme, Perkbox, flexible working, cycle to work scheme, life insurance and employee referral scheme. Appropriate ongoing training is actively encouraged to develop knowledge, skills, and new areas of interest.
Please email hr@galbraithgroup.com for a full job description, or to apply please send your current CV and covering letter.

To find out more about what we do at Galbraith please visit www.galbraithgroup.com