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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.
• Several years of experience in a supervisory occupation in the particular industry are usually required and may substitute for formal education requirements.

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

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