Eco-Guard Supervisor

Presco is a fully-integrated agro-industrial establishment with oil palm plantations, palm oil mill, palm kernel crushing plant and vegetable oil refining and fractionation plant. It also has an olein and stearin packaging plant and a biogas plant to treat its palm oil mill effluent. It is the first of its kind in West Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Eco-Guard Supervisor
Job Location: Nigeria

Purpose

• The purpose of this position is to have a skilled, dedicated and adequate support staff to supervise the eco-guard team for field implementation, recording and reporting of conservation activities.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Monitor the station camps of illegal entry and exit to the conservation area and report cases of security threat to Presco security department.
• Demarcation and monitoring of identified buffer zone within the plantation as per HCV management plans.
• Patrolling and inspecting conservation areas to curb illegal activities.
• Planting and maintaining tree seedlings for reforestation of the conservation area. Keeping inventory of seedlings (survival rates).
• Collecting/recording georeferenced field data (signs of animals, emergence of new species of plants and animals, piezorneter, signs of farming, hunting, fishing and logging)
• Producing basic maps and comprehensive monthly reports.
• Keeping the conservation area management plan up-to-date.
• Training the eco-guards for effective monitoring
• Sensitizing the local communities and Presco workers on conservation issues.
• Maintaining the conservation boundaries to curb fire spread during the dry season.

Qualifications

• Minimum of B.Sc in Forestry and Wildlife Management or its equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years work experience.
• Must have good communication and interpersonal skill.
• Efficient in report writing and good knowledge of Microsoft excel.
• Knowledge and experience in GPS usage and GIS
• Experience of working in rural areas and in the field
• Experience in leading and/or supervising a team

Interested and qualified candidates can also send their detailed CV's and Applications to:

Or
The Human Resources Manager,
Presco Plc,
Km 22, Benin/Sapele Road,
P. O. Box 7061,
Benin City,
Edo State.
Note: Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Interviews will be held at our Head Office at Obaretin.