Forestry Operations Technician (Terrestrial)

• Coordinating with terrestrial planting partners to conduct product trainings, troubleshoot data collection issues and ensure planting sessions can be verified
• Develop and document standardized field auditing and reporting procedures to be performed throughout veritree’s various global sites with a focus on terrestrial planting
• Utilize vertiree’s data collection technologies to help streamline and scale field audits, survival and growth progress monitoring, partner trainings and feature improvements
• Work with members of the Field Operations team to systemize solving issues related to data consistency, data upload, data quality and data frequency

• Manage incoming evidence uploads (images, videos and forms) from planting partners ensuring metadata consistency
• Create automated flagging systems when there are errors with uploaded or attached evidence or planting sessions
• Liaise with planting partners to streamline evidence upload procedures and remedy flagged errors
• Perform the verification of planting sessions, tasks and field reports

• Maintain the company tree supply by verifying planting sessions on a consistent basis across all planting organisations
• Ensure the quality of data being received through automated tasks within the veritree system
• Ensure that task evidence is correctly fed to appropriate field reports and that field reports are ready for verification

• Assist in the ground-based data collection or verification tasks that go beyond tree planting such as sensor deployment, veritree app testing and field team training.
• Utilize the veritree app and system to collect evidence of planting activities and tree growth/survival where required
• Performing the collection of drone-based imagery and data at all new planting sites and existing planting sites where required

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience, working in a highly collaborative team environment.
• BSc in Forestry, Forest Science, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science, Applied Science, Remote Sensing or other related technical fields.
• Knowledge of forest management practices, project design and data quality assurance.
• Proven experience performing field-work, field surveys, forest inventory plots and other silviculture tasks
• Technical experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis to assess, monitor and verify nature-based climate solutions.
• Technical experience creating automated QA processes or flagging systems
• Experience with statistics and an understanding of the potential applications of GIS, data science and machine learning within dMRV.
• Experience manipulating and visualizing raster and LiDAR datasets effectively
• Experience with cloud (AWS, GCP) data storage and processing solutions and tools

• Has obtained or in pursuit of a Registered Professional Forester or Forester in Training designation
• Experience working with the Canadian 2 Billion Trees initiative
• Experience working with/for terrestrial tree planting teams in North America
• Experience working on forestry projects with Indigenous stakeholders
• Field-based drone operation experience

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders/contractors.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Desire to travel to planting sites globally to perform trainings and further refine the verification process
• Resourceful with capital, with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent attention-to-detail.
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, agile and lean environment.
• Enthusiasm for the topic of climate action and nature restoration.

• Extended healthcare plan
• Generous paid days off
• Ability to work remotely
• Opportunities for training and development
• Employee discounts at tentree

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