Manager, Nursery Operations (Silvaseed)

Mast Reforestation is seeking a Nursery Operations Manager for their Silvaseed division in Roy, WA. The role involves overseeing seedling production, ensuring quality standards, and collaborating with various teams in a high-volume forest nursery. Responsibilities include managing plant health, digitizing operations, and supporting reforestation efforts. This position offers opportunities for skill development and career advancement in a startup environment.
About Mast Reforestation (Mast): As the leading end-to-end reforestation company in the U.S., Mast is on a mission to make reforestation scalable. As bigger and hotter fires destroy more forestland every year, Mast provides fast, resilient forest restoration for landowners impacted by devastating wildfires. As the only vertically-integrated reforestation company in the industry, Mast has removed the financial, procedural, and seed supply barriers that typically stand in the way of getting reforestation done. Mast collects native, diverse seed species and manages site preparation, planting, and ongoing monitoring, delivering high quality projects. By assembling first-of-its-kind third party capital, Mast delivers these projects at no-cost to landowners.

About Silvaseed: With trusted forestry companies Silvaseed and Cal Forest in its portfolio, Mast is the largest seed bank and reforestation container stock producer in the Western U.S. Mast is also an innovation center for the non-timber forestry supply chain, developing various biological and technical products for achieving land management goals more efficiently. To learn more, visit www.mastreforest.com and watch this video of our recent Montana project (hyperlink: https://www.mastreforest.com/reforestation)

Silvaseed is looking for a Nursery Operations Manager. If you’re deeply committed to our mission and capable of working in a high-volume forest nursery and seed operation, we’d love to speak with you.

As the Nursery Operations Manager, you will be instrumental in seedling production: growing, packing, and distribution of container and bare root seedlings for a high-volume commercial forest nursery. You will join a growing team and serve essential functions to support container and field-grown (bare root) seedling production. You will have a broad suite of roles that require you to ensure the production of seedlings meets quality and standard specifications, and any other requirements specified by the customers. You will work with other internal teams to mitigate the incidence of disease and other risks to plants during the production. You will also be responsible for reviewing, digitizing, and reporting on growing operations as part of an integrated modernization plan at our facilities. Working in a startup environment, there will be occasional opportunity for cross-disciplinary work with the other nursery (Cal Forest) and Mast (the parent company). You will have colleagues who are seed specialists, scientists, logistics coordinators, software/hardware engineers, and foresters to ensure an optimized production environment and processes are in place for seedling production for reforestation. This role reports to the General Manager. There will be ample opportunity for skills building and personal development toward more senior positions.

Job posting details for Manager, Nursery Operations (Silvaseed) at Mast Reforestation (fka DroneSeed) in Roy, Washington. Compensation / salary range: 30 - 35 USD, hourly. ClimateTechList gathers 13,000+ job openings from over 778 climate tech companies and updates them daily.