Managers in natural resources production and fishing

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

• Oversee and analyze operations in forestry, logging, mining, quarrying, or oil and gas operations or in services to logging, mining and oil and gas industries, or in commercial fishing

• Recommend operational changes to senior management when necessary to ensure that production quotas and procedures are met

• Prepare production reports for review by senior management

• Confer with other managers to set production quotas, to plan extraction sites and to develop policies for the removal of raw materials

• Evaluate efficiency of production sites to determine adequacy of personnel, equipment and technologies used, and make changes to work schedule or equipment when necessary

• Ensure adherence to safety regulations

• Hire personnel and oversee training needs of staff

• May direct peripheral activities such as the construction of access roads or temporary living quarters.

• Forestry managers usually require a bachelor's degree in forestry science or forest engineering.

• Mining and quarrying managers usually require a bachelor's degree in mining engineering or earth sciences.

• Oil and gas managers usually require a bachelor's degree in geology, earth sciences or petroleum engineering.

• Progression to senior management positions in the respective industries is possible with experience.