Contract Manager

**Explore A Career At Mosaic**
Operating for over a century on Vancouver Island and coastal BC, Mosaic Forest Management is Canada’s largest private timberland producer. We take pride in our land base and have a long-term view of managing our trees and the eco-systems in which they grow.

**The Opportunity**
Mosaic is seeking an Operations Contract Manager to work out of our Nanoose Bay office on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

**The Role**
Reporting to the General Manager, Operations - Central Island, the Operations Contract Manager will be responsible for leading contract and operations planning management activities and ensuring product quality and safety performance expectations are effectively managed. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

- Providing leadership in safety and environment through personal example;
- Adhering to and demonstrating a commitment to corporate values daily;
- Leading contract management and associated operations activities;
- Planning operational activities including harvest and road construction;
- Ensuring log quality and value planning are optimized with effective implementation to meet standards that satisfy customer needs;
- Managing long-term operational planning and annual budgeting and monitoring and reporting performance to plan;
- Providing leadership in implementing contract management systems as well as negotiating rates, facilitating competitive bidding, and resolving operational issues at competitive cost;
- Ensuring union agreements are met, while negotiating and resolving issues and implementing longer term strategic goals and objectives;
- Overseeing development and implementation of strategic planning initiatives; and
- Communicating and collaborating effectively with stakeholders to foster a results-oriented, innovative team environment.

**Required Skills and Experience**
- 5+ years production experience or combination of operational planning experience;
- 2+ years production supervision or contract management experience;
- RPF or RFT eligibility with the ABCFP is preferred but not required;
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
- Ability to manage deadlines, multiple projects and budgets;
- Strong negotiating skills;
- Experience managing contracts in a unionized environment and/or experience managing helicopter logging operations is preferred but not required; and
- Valid class 5 driver’s license or equivalent.

**What You Get**
Mosaic Forest Management is one of BC’s Top 100 Employers. We are proud of our highly collaborative, respectful, and innovative work environment. Our employees are empowered with high levels of role autonomy and the ability to make decisions and lead change.
- _Our pay-for-performance compensation philosophy is a key driver of our culture and includes competitive compensation and benefits, a bonus based on individual and company performance, a company-funded defined contribution pension plan, paid vacation, and a health and fitness reimbursement program.

Our employees are also eligible for a variety of other benefits and perks, including but not limited to hybrid work options, maternity/parental leave top ups, a camping benefit and free firewood.

**Compensation**
The annual salary range for this position is $106,770 to $133,435. Individual compensation is commensurate with skill, relevant experience, and education.

**To Apply**

**About Mosaic** **Forest Management**
Mosaic Forest Management Corporation is in the business of sustainable forest stewardship, managing private timberlands and Crown forest tenures in Coastal British Columbia for more than a century.

Mosaic employs several thousand people directly and indirectly, and is committed to achieving positive economic, social and sustainability outcomes from the working forest.

The Mosaic land base spans across beautiful Vancouver Island. Beyond generating strong economic returns, we manage our private forest lands to protect the cultural values of our Indigenous partners, provide sustainable forest stewardship and environmental services, and offer a variety of recreational opportunities, scholarships, and donations to our neighbouring communities.