Gareth Burnett
Manager - Contract & Forestry
Underberg,KZN
Summary
Forestry and Contract Manager with over 15 years experience in Silviculture, Harvesting and Sawmill Management. Strong leadership skills, effectively managing teams and implementing health and safety protocols within the various operations. Vast knowledge and practice of safe fire break burning, and fire management.
Overview
3
3
Languages
2
2
Certifications
19
19
years of professional experience
Work History
Silviculture Manager
Ixopo Contractors t/a Hayters Forestry Management
Ixopo, KwaZulu-Natal
02.2011 - Current
- Management of the silviculture program for contracted plantations in the Underberg area, and some in Ixopo area.
- Communication with Head office management on all daily operations.
- Admin related duties i.e. Toolbox talks, safety talks, daily registers, costings, works plans.
- Silviculture planting programs
- Chemical registers, and ensuring the correct amount of chemicals are used and in line with health and safety protocols
- Ordering of chemicals and seedlings as per works plan
- Ensuring the nursery is operational during planting season and irrigation is controlled
- Management of teams planting tasks and ensure the correct planting method is adhered to
- Quality control in all silviculture operations
- Communication with appointed security company on related matters
- Communication with neighbouring rural communities on fire safety and poaching
- Responsible for FSC compliancy for relevant contracts.
- Responsible for management of labour and teams i.e Recruitment, driver license updates, issuing of warnings and disciplinary hearings
- Daily communication with team leaders and safety officers
- Ensuring the general day to day running of operations
- Village maintenance – ensuring villages are well-ordered and fully operational.
- Maintenance of vehicle and equipment
- Attending to call outs for vehicles and equipment
- Burning / brush programs
- Planting programs
- Pruning programs
- Alien vegetation management
- Plantation access road maintenance, or ensuring the relative contractors are appointed
- Health and safety meetings
- Management of the fire season in full; Daily communication with fire teams on burning programs and daily FDI
- Preparation and burning of tracer lines.
- Burning firebreaks on all farms
- Ensuring teams and fire tender vehicles are fully equipped for the preparation and burning of firebreaks / tracer lines
- Communication with relevant neighbouring farms, fire protection officers and other relevant authority in preparation for the fire season, as well as during the fire season.
- Ensuring quick fill points are operational
- Fire standby in season
- Authority to call for aerial assistance if the need arises.
- Maintenance on all firefighting equipment, before, after and during the fire season
Sawmill Manager, Forestry Manager
Patula Products
01.2005 - 01.2011
- Management of Sawmill operations.
- Ensure adequate supply of timber to be processed.
- Communicating with contractors for timber supply.
- Processing of all timber into marketable product i.e.
- Planks and pallets.
- Admin related duties.
- Taking orders for timber products from customers and supplying the order.
- Customer relations.
- Maintenance of sawmill equipment.
- Responsible for FSC compliancy and implementation.
- Management of silviculture and harvesting operations – pruning, planting, chemical spraying, haulage, gum harvesting, pine harvesting, weed control, harvesting orders for Sappi.
- Harvesting equipment maintenance.
- Harvesting vehicle maintenance.
- Management of harvesting and silviculture teams, including recruitment and dismissals.
- Fire standby and firefighting related operations.
- Planting program.
- Pruning program.
Game Reserver Ranger
Thula Thula Game Reserve
01.2003 - 01.2005
- Daily registers.
- Vehicle maintenance.
- Road maintenance.
- Alien invasive vegetation control.
- Game fence maintenance.
- Management of firebreaks.
- Animal conservation.
- Anti-poaching.
- Grazing re-establishment.
- Elephant tracking and monitoring.
Manager
TL Hampson Contracting
01.2001 - 01.2002
- Daily staff registers.
- Setting of tasks.
- Moving labour to contracts.
- Quality inspection.
- Vehicle Maintenance.
Education
High School Diploma -
Pietermaritzburg Boys' College
PietermaritzburgSkills
Computer Literacyundefined
Certification
Fire Boss refresher & Incident action planning
Timeline
Training & Information on Practical & Theoretical aspects for safe handling of Asbestos Containing Materials
06-2012
Fire Boss refresher & Incident action planning
05-2012
Silviculture Manager
Ixopo Contractors t/a Hayters Forestry Management
02.2011 - Current
Sawmill Manager, Forestry Manager
Patula Products
01.2005 - 01.2011
Game Reserver Ranger
Thula Thula Game Reserve
01.2003 - 01.2005
Manager
TL Hampson Contracting
01.2001 - 01.2002
High School Diploma -
Pietermaritzburg Boys' College
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