Company/Location: Koppers Performance Chemicals Australia (KPC)
Jobs Description:
Location: Melbourne / Geelong area preferred – Hybrid working options available
Join a leading supplier to the timber preservation industry
Koppers Performance Chemicals Australia (KPC) is a market leader in wood preservation technology, supplying innovative treatment systems, chemicals, and technical solutions to customers across Australia and New Zealand.
We are seeking a motivated and technically minded Technical Services Representative to join our team. This role provides technical support and customer service to timber treatment plants and will suit someone with a background in engineering, industrial operations, maintenance, manufacturing, fluid systems, or the timber industry.
About the Role
Reporting to the Managing Director, you will act as the primary technical contact for a portfolio of customers, helping them optimise plant performance, troubleshoot issues, improve operational efficiency, and ensure the safe and compliant use of KPC products.
This is a hands-on role that combines customer relationship management, technical problem solving, site-based support, training, and process improvement. Regular travel to customer facilities throughout Australia will be required.
Key Responsibilities
Provide technical support and advice to customers.
Troubleshoot treatment plant and process issues.
Assist customers to improve plant efficiency, productivity, and preservative usage.
Support the operation and maintenance of treatment cylinders, storage systems, pumps, dosing equipment, process controls, and associated plant infrastructure.
Assist with commissioning new equipment and treatment systems.
Deliver technical training and operational guidance to customers.
Build strong, long-term customer relationships.
Promote safe work practices and support compliance with relevant standards and procedures.
About You
We are looking for someone who enjoys solving technical problems, working directly with customers, and being part of a collaborative team.
Ideally, you will have experience in one or more of the following areas:
Industrial manufacturing, processing, or maintenance environments.
Timber treatment, timber processing, sawmilling, or wood products industries.
Chemical handling, dosing, pumping, or process control systems.
Technical customer support or field service roles
Skills and Attributes
Strong technical and analytical problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to build trusted customer relationships.
Strong organisational skills and ability to work independently.
Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications.
Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites across Australia.
Commitment to workplace safety and continuous improvement.
What We Offer
Opportunity to work with an industry leader.
Varied and interesting role with significant customer interaction.
Competitive salary package including company vehicle.
Supportive team environment with ongoing professional development opportunities.
Apply Now
If you have a technical background and enjoy helping customers achieve operational excellence, we would like to hear from you.
Please submit your resume and cover letter to careers@koppers.com.au, outlining your experience and suitability for the role.
Koppers Performance Chemicals Australia is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to maintaining a safe, inclusive and respectful workplace.
Forest Management
Planning Manager
Company/Location: New Zealand Forest Managers
Jobs Description:
Join a great team based in Tūrangi and play a key role in managing forests for a diverse range of clients across the North Island.
Live and work in the North Island's playground (Tūrangi office | 45m to Taupo)
Work with a down-to-earth team focused on bringing value to forest owners
Lead a skilled team and help shape the long-term performance of our clients' forests.
The Role
The Planning Manager is one of the most technically important roles at NZFM. You'll own the planning and technical foundation that underpins every forest we manage - from inventory and harvest scheduling through to environmental compliance and reporting, leading the skilled team that delivers it. Because these decisions directly shape the long-term performance of our clients' forests, this is very much a senior professional forester's role.
NZFM is seeking a new Planning Manager as part of an internal transition. You'll be well-supported into the role, shadowing the current PM into 2027, so we can ensure continued excellence in what is a critical role both internally and for the clients who depend on it.
The core responsibilities for the role though are:
Forest & Harvest Planning: From Forest and Estate Management Plans through to preharvest and mid-rotation inventories, log scaling and forest records/mapping, you'll own the data and systems that keep NZFM's forests accurate and well understood. You'll also lead the formulation of harvesting strategies and allowable cut - developing the Forest Resource Description, running estate modelling, and preparing harvesting schedules that set the business up for the years ahead.
Leading the Planning Team: You'll have 4 direct reports - Environmental Planner, Forest Information Analyst, Forest Planner and Resource Analyst - and you'll make sure each of them has the support and direction they need to do great work.
Environmental & Regulatory Management: You'll manage resource consent applications, submissions on regional and district plans, and liaison with regional/district authorities and iwi - plus oversight of the company's EMS/SFMS and Forest Certification status, carbon modelling and ETS accounting where forests are registered, and risk identification under NZFM's Health & Safety programme.
Stakeholder Management: You'll be the face of NZFM's planning function for forest owners, clients, contractors, authorities and iwi - building the kind of trust that keeps relationships (and forests) growing over the long term.
Financial Planning & Reporting: You'll assist with the physical and financial planning of all operations and coordinate budgeting and reporting for clients - making sure the numbers behind the forest are as solid as the plans themselves.
What you can expect:
A strong salary package, including company vehicle and insurance.
Direct support from the outgoing Planning Manager, with a shadow period running into 2027.
An incredible group of industry experts to use as sounding boards while you pick up the role.
Respectful and supportive General Manager and team.
The main office is in Tūrangi and is an opportunity to live and work in a stunning part of the country.
Are you our fit?
You're professionally qualified: A Bachelor of Forestry Science degree or an equivalent relevant tertiary qualification, together with suitable forest management experience. You bring a sound understanding of forest planning and the commercial, operational and regulatory factors involved in managing plantation forests.
You're decisive: You're comfortable making the call, even with incomplete information or under pressure, and you back your judgement.
You're numerate and good with budgets: Numbers don't scare you. You're confident planning, forecasting and reporting on the financial side of forest operations, and you can explain the "why" behind them.
You're a systems thinker: You see how the pieces connect — inventories, harvest schedules, budgets, compliance — and you build and improve the processes that keep it all working together.
You manage relationships with skill: You connect easily at every level — forest owners, contractors, regulators, iwi, and your own team — and you understand each brings different interests to the table. You listen well, know how to triage and defuse conflict before it escalates, and you can synthesise competing views into a message that lands clearly with whoever needs to hear it.
You're values-driven and straight-up: No pretence, no politics, just upfront, honest, collaborative and proactive. You're just as comfortable holding your own with a demanding client as you are with a regulator, and you bring people with you rather than talking over them.
You bring leadership experience: As a leader you will have shown you have the attributes described in Patrick Lencioni's book, The Ideal Team Player. You will be Humble, Hungry and Smart, and know how to get the best from a team.
If you think your experience and skillset is a good match for this role, we're keen to talk to you.
Applications close: Friday, 18-Sep-2026
Forestry Harvesting
Forester: Harvest Planning, Engineering and Harvesting Supervision
Company/Location: Tasman Pine Forests Ltd
Jobs Description:
Outstanding Nelson Lifestyle
Experienced in Harvesting or Harvest planning
Progressive Forestry Management Company
Tasman Pine Forests (TPF) are a progressive forestry company who own and manage 35,600 hectares of forest plantations throughout the Top of the South Nelson, Tasman and Marlborough regions. TPF have an opportunity for a person who is either experienced or is seeking to gain more experience in harvest planning, engineering and harvest supervision.
In this key role you will assist the Harvest Planning/Engineering Manager and the harvesting, engineering team with harvest planning, forest engineering design and supervision of infrastructure construction, resource consent input, cutover and environmental audits and harvest supervision, to ensure all operations meet agreed objectives and adhere to environmental and Health and Safety policies.
The successful candidate will be physically fit, a team player, have sound technical and practical experience in areas of forest engineering or harvesting, a forestry degree or diploma is preferred, excellent relationship management skills and a strong and pragmatic knowledge of health, safety and environmental standards
This is a great opportunity for a person with some experience in harvest planning, forest engineering and harvesting who enjoys working autonomously and collaboratively in a small and supportive team to further develop their careers.
Please send application and CV to TPF Business Administrator Kerrie Thompson, details below.
Applicants must be NZ citizens or have permanent NZ work visa status.
Hauler Crew
Company/Location: Stand Forestry - Gisborne
Jobs Description:
Stand Forestry is seeking a capable tower crew for a longer term work package.
Work will be on a fixed price log sale agreement.
Proven health and safety and environmental compliance is a must.
