We put potential candidates in touch with the top wood jobs in North America. We will help you with your resume and job interview. Updated job list as of April 18, 2025.
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- Engineering, Design and Project Management
- Maintenance and Construction Jobs
- Operations and Production Jobs
- Sales and Marketing Jobs
If you are interested in any of the positions listed, please email us your resume in MS Word format with the following details:
- Full legal name
- Phone number (s)
- Current or recent salary/wage per year
- Preferred location
When available to start work
We are committed to making employment decisions that are fair and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, genetics, gender identity or expression or any other characteristics protected under law. Top Wood Jobs refers candidates and it is up to the employer to make all employment decisions. If you do not have the "required" experience you may not be considered.
Wage and Benefit Ranges – Updated January 1, 2024
We update this list yearly based on clients and candidates’ discussions. What we often find is you get what you pay for, from equipment to materials and supervisors through managers. We talk to candidates and employers all day long about the wages and benefits they presently give and get and what candidates will need to take some other job. Highly qualified candidates get noticed by others who are willing to steal them away from competition.
USA Wood Products Salary Ranges in $USD – Updated Yearly
- CEO, COO, CFO $300K to $1million+/year plus bonus
- Vice President $180k and up plus bonus
- General Manager $120k - $350k plus bonus
- Sales Managers $65k-$200k and up. Bonus to twice salary
- Plant Manager $85k-$270k plus bonus. 3+ weeks vacation
- Engineers $80k-$200k depending on experience and degree.
- PLC Technicians $90k -$200k and typically over $135k.
- Superintendents $100k-$180k plus bonus. 3- 4 weeks vacation
- Technical Directors $100k-$180k plus bonus. 3-4 weeks vacation
- Supervisors $50-$110k plus slight bonus. 2 weeks vacation
Benefits vary from company to company, but it is important when making an offer to provide details on all medical and health benefits, relocation package, vacation, and holidays, non-competes, severance packages, sign on bonus, and bonus package. Most companies will offer a relocation package that includes a couple travel trips for the employee and spouse for house hunting, realtor support for both houses, 2-3 months of temporary living, professional packing and moving. Closing cost on a new house is rarely seen. Often relocation cost will be loaded for taxes too, so the new employee does not have to pay the taxes. Often when these are not spelled out for upper management positions, candidates reject the offer until they get the facts or take better offers with better details and benefits. Medical benefits need to include all the details and not just the basics. We recommend that you provide all the standard benefit details before a salary and bonus offer and then these are discussed to confirm that the offer will be expected first. We advise employers to never simply email an offer without getting the candidate to know and accept verbally an offer. We always tell the employer what the candidate expects for wages and benefits.
Non Disclosure of Confidential Information
Candidates may not contact or send their resumes to clients, they have not previously contacted that we divulge to the candidate without our written approval. You will not hold Top Wood Jobs or our clients libel for reference and background checks or accepting the job. The information contained herein may not be used by other than the intended recipient(s) or transmitted to other parties without the express written permission and consent of Top Wood Jobs. To continue to receive my email, Select email, Junk Mail Options and select Never Block Sender’s Domain. By sharing your personal information, email, phone numbers and resume with Top Wood Jobs, you are providing Top Wood Jobs this information at will and you have given Top Wood Jobs authority to this information.
Candidate Referrals: $2500
Top Wood Jobs will pay $2500 for any candidate that you supply us the candidates resume in MS Word for a current job we have (and not your own resume) that we place directly through Top Wood Jobs for that position. This offer is only good if Top Wood Jobs has not previously received the resume. Payment will be made only if candidate is still employed 90 days after they start employment. Payment may depend on full payment by employer. If employer pays on a monthly payment schedule, payment to you will be paid each month according to this schedule. Please indicate that you are supplying a resume for this offer in the email with the resume in MS Word. The resume must include current contact information and the permission of the individual to send their resume to Top Wood Jobs.
Top Jobs for the Forest Industry:
Industries Include:
- All Primary Processing Wood Products and Forest Industry
- Biomass Energy
- CLT - Cross Laminated Timber
- Flooring
- Hardboard
- I-Joist
- Laminating
- LVL
- OSB
- OSL
- MDF
- Particleboard
- Plywood
- Resins and Adhesives
- Sawmills and Lumber
- Wood Pellets
- WPC - Wood Plastic Composites
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