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Tūranga Ararau Forestry Management Graduates
Continued from last month: Tūranga Ararau has been offering the first year of the Diploma in Forestry Management for over 20 years with a number of our graduates gaining direct entry through a partnership arrangement to the second year at Waiariki Institute of Technology where they have completed and been awarded the full diploma. From there they have moved on to achieve their goal to be working in a range of management roles across all forestry sectors. Here we have profiled a number of them who are still working in the industry, where they were before they started with us, what they are doing now and their plans for the future. If forestry management is your career goal, whether you are a school leaver, an experienced logger or silviculture worker or just keen to get into the industry at a management level check out our zero fees first year option where you can study locally, get heaps of support and encouragement and a sound grounding to continue on to Waiariki to ultimately join our graduates out there in the industry.
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James Burt
Forest Supervisor JNL East Prior to starting on the Diploma in Forestry Management I was pruning, thinning and planting for Wainui Silviculture. After being on the tools for a while I decided I needed to progress my career, the supervisor looked like he had a good job, so I decided to pursue a qualification and get a forest supervisor’s job myself. Tūranga Ararau gave me a lot of help and ensured I did things efficiently and the right way to achieve my goal. I now work as a Forest Supervisor at J.N.L Looking after health and safety, managing environmental issues, establishment, silviculture, forest health, pest management and contracts. My future plan is to stay with J.N.L and move into harvesting operations.
John Gulliver
Harvest Planner and Road Engineering ERNSLAW ONE LTD
With over 20 years of practical experience within the forestry industry I knew that I needed a formal qualification to show for my experience and the Diploma of Forestry Management looked to be the right qualification for me with a mix of hands on and technical so I enrolled with Tūranga Ararau. Before that I was a forestry and harvesting supervisor doing day to day management of crews. I found their tutors and the course delivery to be excellent and I was well prepared to finish the diploma at Waiariki Institute of Technology in 2002.
I am currently harvest planning with associated road engineering activities for Ernslaw One limited. I am responsible for having forests harvest planned, roads and skids built to spec and on time, and present to harvesting contractors for pricing and harvesting. I really enjoy the challenging environment of harvest planning and roading on the East Coast, every day is different.
Vincent Fox
Operations Supervisor Ngāti Porou Forests Ltd Before starting the diploma in forestry management in 2001, I had worked in forestry for 15 years in both silviculture and harvesting. Knowing I would need to return to education to further my career I enrolled for the first year of the diploma at Tūranga Ararau and from there gained direct entry to the second year and completed it at Waiariki. I made this choice as I had really good feedback from others who had completed the diploma starting off this way. Ross Gregory was great and he and the tutors were a huge help giving ongoing support throughout my studies and after I graduated in 2003. I went back logging for a time then got a job with Ngāti Porou Forests Ltd and have been here ever since. My role as Operations Supervisor is wide and varied supervising silviculture crews, landowner and stakeholder engagement, contractor management, pest control and, lately, we have started logging the first Han Rakau Ltd forest. This job provides a great variety however I am looking at a degree in resource management in the future.
Tipuna Jones
Harvester Dewes Contractors Ltd On leaving school I joined the forestry skills programme at Tūranga Ararau then went to work in the forest silviculture industry. Knowing I needed something to fall back on as I did not see silviculture as a lifelong career, I decided to take the advice of the forestry tutor at Tūranga Ararau, Henry Mulligan to join their forestry diploma programme where I attended night classes and continued to work during the day. In 2013 I was accepted directly into the second year of the diploma at Waiarki which I successfully completed. Returning to Gisborne I am now back in the industry as a logger to give me a solid grounding in both silviculture and harvesting before using my experience and qualification to step into management.
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Rowena Marshall (nee Walker) Ex Harvesting Supervisor Juken New Zealand
While at school I loved working in the forests and, on the advice of a careers adviser, completed a fundamentals forestry programme with Tūranga Ararau. After finishing the 7th form I enrolled in the Bachelor in Forestry Science at the University of Canterbury but found it was not for me so returned to Gisborne and completed the Diploma in Forestry Management with Tūranga Ararau and Waiariki Institute of Technology. Having work experience with JNL in 2003 led me to a position in a logging crew and then to a silviculture supervisor. In 2009 I moved to the Far North for 2 years supervising harvesting crews, managing wood flow and eventually took on the environmental portfolio. Mid 2011, I moved back to JNL Gisborne to manage the JNL Logging crews as well as wood flow, a massive role, more responsibilities, challenges and far more in depth than supervising as I played a huge part in manpower, machine maintenance, paying wages, training and recruitment. Out of all the roles and responsibilities I’ve had, that one was by far the best, I loved it! In 2012 I had to make a career change and am now married and living in Perth but know that I will return to forestry one day, the career I love.
Katie Muir
Policy & Resource Planner Forest Management NZ Ltd Forestry has proven to be an extremely rewarding and challenging career path. A year abroad in Denmark opened my eyes to the significance of the global forestry industry and enticed me to further pursue study options. On returning to Gisborne in 2009, following the advice of Campion College’s careers department, I completed forestry unit standards with Tūranga Ararau at night classes. That gave me an understanding of some of the fundamental concepts of commercial forestry before gaining workplace experience at Juken NZ in Gisborne which provided me with invaluable knowledge to complete the Bachelor of Forestry Science (Hons) at Canterbury University in 2014. On graduating I had a range of opportunities to choose from and have recently been employed as the Policy and Resource Planner for Forest Management NZ Ltd in Napier, looking at health and safety and environmental aspects of the business.