Jaco Nortje

• Owner-operated forestry services and property maintenance contractor.
• Service provided includes:
• Tree health inspection and audits.
• Tree maintenance includes pruning, thinning (chemically), planting quality inspections, aerial spraying supervision, and aerial fertilizing supervision.
• Team safety compliance audits.
• Property maintenance, which includes security, fencing, and signage maintenance.
• Water quality measurements and sampling.
• Stakeholder and community engagement.
• Fire management and fire equipment maintenance.
• Pest control.
• Environmental audits.

Responsible for planning and administering the establishment, silviculture, forest health, and protection programs to increase productivity and value of the forest estate while achieving a high rate of return from capital employed. The scope includes the coordination of all silviculture activities in the Canterbury region.

Identify alternative land use, revenue opportunities, and manage public use and security.

Duties and Responsibilities.

• Manage all tree crop programs, including establishment, tending, and forest health within the region, to include strategy, analysis assumptions, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Undertake the analysis and planning of establishment and silviculture operations to ensure site establishment and tending are generating the best possible returns for the capital employed. This duty will include the collection of pre-assessment inventory data, regime analysis, and budget and PAR preparation.
• Select and supervise contractors to ensure that expected quality standards are achieved while project costs are controlled within budget levels. Provide contract administration and payments via the RAPTA system.
• Responsible for all forest protection requirements including forest health, pest and disease, and security. Manage forest health and nutrition programs including stand assessment, analysis of treatment options, and application of approved treatments. Ensure adequate forest security by maintaining appropriate locked gates and fences. Ensure appropriate signage is in place.
• Co-ordinate the public use of forests by ensuring that safety, liability and risk concerns are addressed.
• Manage miscellaneous revenue streams such as the licensing of bees, sporting events and grazing.
• Accurately forecast capital spending and physical progress on projects to the extent that the drivers of those results are predictable.
• Ensure accurate and timely updates to stand records and stand boundaries held in GeoMaster. Co-ordinate with the Forest Information Specialist.
• Responsible for research and development initiatives relating to site productivity and crop improvement. This includes strategy, budgeting, trial establishment, measurement and control and documentation.
• Be sufficiently trained and available for duty as specified in Rayonier's fire control and suppression system.
• Staff management
• Manage, develop and encourage direct report to prosper and contribute to team success
• Ensure that performance plans are current and provide effective feedback to your direct report on their performance.
• Ensure training and development plans are current and implemented for your direct report.
• Any other tasks as directed by the Regional Manager.
• Proactively promote safe work practices, identify hazards and become involved in health & safety programmes and initiatives within the contract workforce, to achieve the company set annual objectives, as well as within the regional and wider APFR team.
• Achieve continuous improvement of environmental performance to meet or exceed our own standards and those of key regulatory bodies and community interests.
• Proactively promote Rayonier's environmental policy and performance within the workplace.
• Manage in accordance with the Rayonier Standard of Ethics and Code of Corporate Conduct.

• Silviculture: Managing the establishment and maintenance operations of Pine and Eucalyptus species [11500 hectares]
• Furthermore responsible for managing 9500 hectares of conservation area, which include 5 Natural Heritage sites according to ISO, FSC and SABS standards
• Developing annual silviculture APO and developing monthly phased plans in accordance with the annual APO
• Managing safety within silviculture operations and ensuring that company standard specifications are adhered to
• Involved with annual budgeting of silviculture operations, annual internal standards and compliance audits and annual external standards and compliance audits
• Mentoring, guiding and developing student foresters and contractors
• Performing all planning activities related to silviculture operations, that is EIAs and delineation
• Assisting with the development of the plantation risk assessment
• Fire Management: Responsible for all fire related management activities on 21000 hectares
• Managing fire break preparation activities and fire fighting activities
• Developing and managing conservation area burn plans
• Managing airstrips for aerial fire fighting operations
• Liaising with neighbours, FPAs and FFAs on fire related issues
• Involved with the development and maintenance of the fire risk assessment and compliance issues
• Furthermore involved in annual fire management compliance audits
• Road Management: Involved in annual road maintenance planning and operations
• Furthermore responsible for managing roads contractor

• Company Overview: [Info]
• Assisted the private consortium that bought the Mondi Estate by providing the information they needed to plan operations and activities on their newly acquired property
• Assisted with the harvesting and re-establishment of wattle
• Conducted quality checks in the area and assisted in general managerial tasks
• [Info]

• Company Overview: [Professional Agricultural Contractors]
• Performed general day-to-day management of sugar cane estate
• Managed the harvesting of 32 000 tons of sugarcane, as well as the harvesting, silviculture, transport and delivery activities of a 200 ha Eucalyptus plantation area
• Responsible for road and waterway management, as well as conservation management
• Managed the re-establishment and silvicultural activities of the sugar crop
• Furthermore responsible for managing the transport and delivery of sugar cane to the local sugar mill
• Performed budget management and completed costing schedules
• Responsible for labour interaction and relations, including wage breakdowns and reconciliation [Managed labour force of 102 employees]
• [Professional Agricultural Contractors]

• Company Overview: [Natal South Coast]
• Managed the harvesting and silvicultural activities of 26 000 tonne of sugarcane and 1000 hectares plantation timber, consisting of both Pine and Eucalyptus operations
• Liaised with sugar mills and timber mills
• Furthermore managed sugarcane and timber contractors
• Interacted with unions and managed workforce [approx
• 110 employees]
• Conducted disciplinary hearings and inquiries
• Managed conservation areas
• Performed stock control and budgeting
• Furthermore completed productivity reports
• Oversaw the general wellbeing of the labour force on the plantation and interacted and liaised with neighbours to maintain a good working environment
• Responsible for all fire related activities
• Experience gained in the suppression of large sugarcane and timber fires
• [Natal South Coast]

• Company Overview: [At Mistley Estate, Seven Oaks, Natal | Canema Estate]
• Forester, Canema Estate [April 1997 to 1998]: Harvested sugar cane [16000 to 20000 tonne per annum]
• Managed the post cut and ratooning of sugarcane
• Re-established sugarcane
• Responsible for all fire related activities, including burning and maintenance of firebreaks and conservation areas
• Performed financial inputs and budgeting
• Liaised with various mills
• Managed staff [approx
• 80 employees] within various operations
• Furthermore responsible for leading disciplinary hearings and managing union disputes and labour relation involvement
• Harvesting Manager, Mistley Estate [1996 to April 1997]: Managed the harvesting of Wattle for the production of Wattle bark and Pulp
• Furthermore managed the harvesting of Pine for the production of Pulp
• Managed all harvesting and silvi-cultural activities in both the Wattle and Pine stands
• [At Mistley Estate, Seven Oaks, Natal | Canema Estate]

• Company Overview: [Waterkloof Air Force Base, Pretoria]
• Training Completed: Basic Training; Valhalla Air Force Base - Pretoria [1992]
• [Waterkloof Air Force Base, Pretoria]