CoLAB ForestWISE® opens one position for a Project Manager in the Forestry Operations Area, in the scope of the transForm Green Agenda – Digital Transformation of the Forestry Sector for a Resilient and Low Carbon Economy, supported by the Component 5 – Promotion of Sustainable Bioeconomy (PRR | C5 Agenda Notice No. 02/C05-i01/2022), through European funds provided to Portugal by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), under the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism (RRM) of the European Union (EU), framed within the Next Generation UE, for the period from 2021-2025.
Duties
Under the supervision of the CTO of CoLAB ForestWISE®, the Coordinator of the Work Line in which he/she will be integrated and the Director of the transForm Agenda, the employee to be hired will be responsible for the following duties:
- Autonomously carry out research, creation and transfer of knowledge and technology in the field of forestry operations, namely bibliographical research, collection of field data on operation times and costs, statistical analysis of data using different software (R, SPSS or other similar);
- Support the development of new digital technologies for planning and monitoring forestry operations, with special emphasis on harvesting and logistics (within the scope of Forest 4.0), together with the companies responsible for their development and end users. This support requires contributing to analysing requirements, carrying out field tests with the selected technologies, supporting demonstrations and collecting data from potential users. collecting data from potential users;
- Support the development of new digital technologies to plan and monitor forestry operations;
- Contribute to analysing requirements, support the development of methodologies to validate data, carry out fieldwork to assess the quality of the information collected;
- Support for demonstrations and dissemination of project results;
- Drawing up progress reports on the aforementioned activities;
- Collaborate, whenever necessary, with the other members of the Agenda, namely with companies, academia and public bodies for the proper execution of the Agenda’s projects;
- Organise and participate in CoLAB ForestWISE® communication, dissemination and knowledge transfer initiatives associated with the project or others that may be relevant to it;
- To support the execution of other project management activities, including technical control and the communication and dissemination of results;
- Represent CoLAB ForestWISE® on request.
Requirements
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in the field of Engineering, Forestry Sciences or related areas.
If the qualification has been acquired by a foreign higher education institution it must be recognised by a Portuguese higher education institution, under the terms of Decree-Law No. 341/2007, of 12 October, regulated by Order No. 227/2017, of 25 July and updated by Decree-Law No. 66/2018, published in the Diário da República (1st Series, No. 157, of 16 August 2018), having any formalities established in this document be complied with by the effective date of the hiring.
Personal skills:
- Organisational skills and working methods;
- Proactivity and ability to identify improvements in the various information flows;
- Ease and good integration in teamwork;
- Ease of dealing with different interlocutors;
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
- Excellent writing and summarising skills;
- Proactivity in resolving the organisation’s daily issues;
- Availability and flexible working hours.
Among others, the following are prioritised:
- Professional experience in one or more of the following areas: forestry operations, logistics and supply chains, operational research, information systems, circular economy;
- Experience in participating in and/or managing research and/or consultancy projects in collaboration with companies and/or organisations in the national scientific and technological system;
- Working experience with public and private forestry sector organisations and other forestry sector players in Portugal;
- Written and oral proficiency in Portuguese and English (level C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference).
- Office skills and statistical analysis software.
The candidate to be hired will be entitled to an employment contract, with a fixed monthly salary between the TRU15 and TRU32 levels, to be defined according to the curriculum vitae and experience presented and proven.
Organization/Company – ForestWISE
Research field – Engineering » Other
Research profile – First Stage Researcher (R1)
Country – Portugal
Application Deadline – 13 Jun 2025 – 23:59 (Europe/Lisbon)
More information: EURAXESS.
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