Natural Resource Development Managers
Job description
These individuals coordinate and evaluate operational activities in a variety of areas, including:
- Forestry and logging
- Mines and quarries
- Oil and gas drilling
- Commercial fishing
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Assess the efficiency of production sites and draft reports.
- Identify, recommend, and implement operational changes (personnel, equipment, techniques, and schedules).
- Collaborate on production forecasts and planning of raw material extraction sites.
- Ensure compliance with safety rules and quality standards.
- Hire and train staff.
- Negotiate contracts with potential customers or suppliers.
- Lead related work, such as the construction of access roads and temporary housing, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- Experience leads to management positions.
Hourly wage
Not available.Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
1,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 8.4% Female
- 91.6% Male
Not available.
- 8.4% Female
- 91.6% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$137,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for women
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2148% of jobs
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NAICS 113, 115321% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 11524% of jobs
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NAICS 3314% of jobs
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NAICS 914% of jobs
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Others19% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 2148% of jobs
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NAICS 113, 115321% of jobs
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NAICS 111, 112, 114, 1151, 11524% of jobs
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NAICS 3314% of jobs
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NAICS 914% of jobs
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Others19% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Numerous training and study programs lead to managerial or executive positions.
Sometimes required
- Several years of experience in a supervisory position, in a particular industry, are often required. This experience may substitute for academic credentials.
Forest Operations Managers
- A Bachelor’s degree in Forestry or Forest Engineering is often required.
- Membership in the Ordre des ingénieurs forestiers du Québec (OIFQ [Quebec Order of Forest Engineers]) may be required.
Mine and Quarry Managers
- A Bachelor’s degree in Mining Engineering or Earth Sciences is often required.
- Membership in the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ [Quebec Order of Engineers]) may be required.
Oil and Gas Operations Managers
- A Bachelor’s degree in Geology, Earth Sciences, or Petroleum Engineering is often required.
- Membership in the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ [Quebec Order of Engineers]) may be required.
Fishing Operations Managers
- A Master’s degree in Marine Resource Management may be required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Information processing
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Critical thought
- Oral expression
- Judgment and decision-making
- Active learning
- Solving complex problems
- Written expression
- Result evaluation
- System analysis
- Mathematics
- Systems evaluation
- Time management
- Coordination
- Persuasion
- Teaching
- Negotiation
- Social perception
Abilities
- Deductive reasoning
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Verbal skills
- Information organization
- Inductive reasoning
- Mathematical reasoning
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Awareness of issues
- Basic numeracy
- Near vision
- Speech recognition
- Classification
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Processing flexibility
- Selective attention
- Perception speed
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Leadership
- Political sense
- Knowledge of administration and management
- Capacity to influence and mobilize
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Rigour
- Knowledge of engineering and technology
- Knowledge of plant and animal production
Interests
- Direct, organize, and manage
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
- Self-employment
- Develop and exploit natural resources
- Work in contact with nature and animals
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 80010
Managers in natural resources production and fishing
Job titles
- Fishing operations manager
- Forestry operations manager
- Manager of mining operations
- Woods superintendent
- Mine superintendent
- Shore captain - fishing
- Quarry manager
- Quarrying manager
- Gas field operations manager
- Director of mining
- Production manager - coal mining
- Biofuels production manager
- Oil and gas fields production manager
- Raw materials production manager
- Logging production manager
- Mine manager
- Peat bog manager
- Drilling operations manager
- Oil well servicing manager
- Forestry and logging manager
- Oil well drilling manager
- Woodlands manager
- Underground mining superintendent
- Underground mine superintendent
- Oil and gas drilling superintendent
Skill type
Natural resources, agriculture and related production
Related occupations
- Architecture and science managers
- Contractors and supervisors, oil and gas drilling and services
- Fishing masters and officers
- Managers in agriculture
- Mining engineers
- Senior managers - construction, transportation, production and utilities
- Supervisors, logging and forestry
- Supervisors, mining and quarrying
- forest engineer
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