Remote Forestry Operations Technician (Terrestrial)

About veritree:

veritree is an award-winning climate tech start-up based in Vancouver. Launched in 2021, our technology measures and verifies the impact of global restoration efforts from the ground up. We are a small team on a big mission to plant 1 billion verified trees by 2030 with our community of businesses, planting organizations, and consumers who believe in the transformative power of verified restoration projects to create real and meaningful impact for the planet, nature and people.

Position Overview:

veritree is seeking a skilled technician to join its Innovation and Field Operations team. This role will support quality checking, processing and managing data from terrestrial planting locations around the world. This includes field evidence, field reports, field surveys and other data streams. This individual will be accountable for setting up automated workflows to ensure data quality and consistency, processing and analyzing varying data outputs from the field, and producing insightful reports and client materials. The successful candidate will report to the Field Operations Manager and work closely with members of the Innovation, Customer Success, and Science Teams. This new role will ensure veritree maintains the highest standards of data and reporting as it scales planting efforts across the globe.

Key Outcomes in the next 6 months are:

• Coordinating with terrestrial planting partners to conduct product trainings, troubleshoot data collection issues and ensure planting sessions can be verified
• Develop and document standardized field auditing and reporting procedures to be performed throughout veritree’s various global sites with a focus on terrestrial planting
• Utilize vertiree’s data collection technologies to help streamline and scale field audits, survival and growth progress monitoring, partner trainings and feature improvements
• Work with members of the Field Operations team to systemize solving issues related to data consistency, data upload, data quality and data frequency
  
  

Key Responsibilities:

1. Build out manual and automated processes for quality checking incoming data within the veritree platform
• Manage incoming evidence uploads (images, videos and forms) from planting partners ensuring metadata consistency
• Create automated flagging systems when there are errors with uploaded or attached evidence or planting sessions
• Liaise with planting partners to streamline evidence upload procedures and remedy flagged errors
2. Perform the verification of planting sessions, tasks and field reports
• Maintain the company tree supply by verifying planting sessions on a consistent basis across all planting organisations
• Ensure the quality of data being received through automated tasks within the veritree system
• Ensure that task evidence is correctly fed to appropriate field reports and that field reports are ready for verification

3. Conduct data collection, training or technology deployment tasks as required

• Assist in the ground-based data collection or verification tasks that go beyond tree planting such as sensor deployment, veritree app testing and field team training.
• Utilize the veritree app and system to collect evidence of planting activities and tree growth/survival where required
• Performing the collection of drone-based imagery and data at all new planting sites and existing planting sites where required

Qualifications and Experience

Essential 

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience, working in a highly collaborative team environment.
• BSc in Forestry, Forest Science, Natural Resource Management, Environmental Science, Applied Science, Remote Sensing or other related technical fields.
• Knowledge of forest management practices, project design and data quality assurance.
• Proven experience performing field-work, field surveys, forest inventory plots and other silviculture tasks
• Technical experience with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis to assess, monitor and verify nature-based climate solutions.
• Technical experience creating automated QA processes or flagging systems
• Experience with statistics and an understanding of the potential applications of GIS, data science and machine learning within dMRV.
• Experience manipulating and visualizing raster and LiDAR datasets effectively
• Experience with cloud (AWS, GCP) data storage and processing solutions and tools

Preferred

• Has obtained or in pursuit of a Registered Professional Forester or Forester in Training designation
• Experience working with the Canadian 2 Billion Trees initiative
• Experience working with/for terrestrial tree planting teams in North America
• Experience working on forestry projects with Indigenous stakeholders
• Field-based drone operation experience

Personal

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders/contractors. 
• Ability to effectively communicate complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Desire to travel to planting sites globally to perform trainings and further refine the verification process
• Resourceful with capital, with strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Strong quantitative, analytical and problem-solving skills and excellent attention-to-detail. 
• You enjoy working in a fast-paced, agile and lean environment.
• Enthusiasm for the topic of climate action and nature restoration. 

• Extended healthcare plan
• Generous paid days off
• Ability to work remotely
• Opportunities for training and development
• Employee discounts at tentree

A typical hiring range for this position is $70,000 - $75,000 CAD per year with the final salary offer based on your qualifications, job-related skills, and relevant experience. In addition, veritree's total rewards offering also includes comprehensive benefits, a certified inspiring workplace, and exclusive perks to reward your exceptional performance and contributions.

veritree is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs