Woodlands Co-Op Student Fall 2025
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Kickstart Your Forestry Career
Are you a student ready to take your learning beyond the classroom and into the forest? Join our Woodlands team and gain hands-on experience in one of Canada’s most vital and innovative industries. You’ll be paired with a professional Operations Supervisor and immersed in real-world forestry operations that make a difference.
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful Work: Contribute to impactful projects in road construction, harvesting, silviculture, and transportation.
- Mentorship: Learn from experienced professionals who are invested in your success.
- Innovation: Work with cutting-edge forestry technology and sustainable practices.
- Career Preview: Get a realistic, hands-on look at a future in forestry.
- Skill Development: Build leadership, communication, and project management skills. Available Roles
- Student Operations Assistant
Support daily operations and logistics across forestry sites.
- Silviculture Assistant
Help manage reforestation and forest health initiatives.
- Harvesting Student
Participate in timber harvesting operations and planning.
Responsibilities Responsibilities vary by site but may include:
- Supporting road construction, harvesting, silviculture, and transportation teams
- Promoting a culture of safety, quality, and efficiency
- Leading or assisting with special projects that drive operational success
Qualifications
- Enrolled in a Forestry, Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, or Business program
- Returning to school after the work term
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- High energy, detail-oriented, and self-motivated
- Comfortable managing multiple tasks and shifting priorities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and general computer applications
- Enjoy working outdoors and in team environments
About J.D. Irving Woodlands Division
We own 3.2 million acres and manage over 2.6 million more acres of Crown land in New Brunswick. Today, Irving Woodlands is a team of over 1,500 in Canada and the US. Every year we’re planning 80 years ahead to ensure healthy forests, biodiversity and the protection of the rivers, lakes and streams on land we own or manage. It’s a generational commitment - growing more wood than we harvest every year from forests that are audited and certified every year by independent experts. We’re supported by the best technology and work with many conservation and research partners to learn and improve. We are a leader in forest research and tree improvement.
Reforestation is at the root of our business. Since 1957, we have planted over one billion trees, a national record in Canada. Our research on climate change and carbon sequestration has been internationally recognized. The forests we manage have a positive impact on reducing greenhouse gases – absorbing 92 million tonnes of carbon over the next 50 years.
Today, forests we care for and sustain a diverse value chain of forest products and almost 16,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs – from seedling to consumer shelf – in both Canada and the US.
Woodlands Co-Op Student Fall 2025
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Description Kickstart Your Forestry Career
Are you a student ready to take your learning beyond the classroom and into the forest? Join our Woodlands team and gain hands-on experience in one of Canada’s most vital and innovative industries. You’ll be paired with a professional Operations Supervisor and immersed in real-world forestry operations that make a difference.
What You Can Expect
- Meaningful Work: Contribute to impactful projects in road construction, harvesting, silviculture, and transportation.
- Mentorship: Learn from experienced professionals who are invested in your success.
- Innovation: Work with cutting-edge forestry technology and sustainable practices.
- Career Preview: Get a realistic, hands-on look at a future in forestry.
- Skill Development: Build leadership, communication, and project management skills. Available Roles
- Student Operations Assistant
Support daily operations and logistics across forestry sites.
- Silviculture Assistant
Help manage reforestation and forest health initiatives.
- Harvesting Student
Participate in timber harvesting operations and planning.
Responsibilities Responsibilities vary by site but may include:
- Supporting road construction, harvesting, silviculture, and transportation teams
- Promoting a culture of safety, quality, and efficiency
- Leading or assisting with special projects that drive operational success
Qualifications
- Enrolled in a Forestry, Environmental Science, Civil Engineering, or Business program
- Returning to school after the work term
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- High energy, detail-oriented, and self-motivated
- Comfortable managing multiple tasks and shifting priorities
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and general computer applications
- Enjoy working outdoors and in team environments
About J.D. Irving Woodlands Division
We own 3.2 million acres and manage over 2.6 million more acres of Crown land in New Brunswick. Today, Irving Woodlands is a team of over 1,500 in Canada and the US. Every year we’re planning 80 years ahead to ensure healthy forests, biodiversity and the protection of the rivers, lakes and streams on land we own or manage. It’s a generational commitment - growing more wood than we harvest every year from forests that are audited and certified every year by independent experts. We’re supported by the best technology and work with many conservation and research partners to learn and improve. We are a leader in forest research and tree improvement.
Reforestation is at the root of our business. Since 1957, we have planted over one billion trees, a national record in Canada. Our research on climate change and carbon sequestration has been internationally recognized. The forests we manage have a positive impact on reducing greenhouse gases – absorbing 92 million tonnes of carbon over the next 50 years.
Today, forests we care for and sustain a diverse value chain of forest products and almost 16,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs – from seedling to consumer shelf – in both Canada and the US.