Northwest Region Manager

Northwest Region Manager

Location: Northwest Region- Sedro Woolley, WA

Relocation Compensation may be available and considered

Salary: $10,418.00 - $12,152.00 Monthly

Review of applications is ongoing. We reserve the right to make a hiring decision or close this recruitment at any time after 5/10/26. It is in your best interest to submit materials as soon as possible.

Responsibilities:

• Operate as the chief representative of the Commissioner within the geographic boundaries of the region.
• Ensure that the Commissioner and DNR’s executive management team are promptly informed of emergent issues or events with the potential to impact the agency or the region.
• Providing oversight for the management of approximately 431,000 acres of state forest, agriculture, urban, and conservation lands.
• Provide outstanding leadership for the region staff of 140 permanent and 49 seasonal employees
• Implement a proactive safety program to improve employee safety awareness and reduce accidents and injuries.
• Position is delegated the authority as an Appointing Authority, which makes this position responsible for making hiring decisions, terminations, and pay impacting discipline.
• Establish and maintain excellent working relationships and communications with local governments, tribes, regional offices of other state agencies, landowners, and other partner groups.
• Sustainably manage state trust lands to generate income for public schools, universities, counties, and other trust beneficiaries, while accommodating compatible public uses.
• Implement three major resource protection programs – wildfire prevention/suppression, forest resilience, and forest practices – on private and state forest lands within the region on approximately 1.5 million acres of state and private forest lands.
• Develop and ensure proper utilization of a $32 million biennial budget.
• The region has aquatic lands, managed by aquatics division staff located in Northwest Region facilities and supported by Northwest Region staff.
• Ensure that public resources are protected.
• Be prepared for emergencies, including fire suppression.
• Seek efficiencies and cost savings in all aspects of region operations.

Required Qualifications:

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources Management, Business Management, or related field AND ten years of professional-level experience with a demonstrated progression in leadership responsibilities related to land and resource management and personnel management; OR an equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

Key Knowledge:

• Knowledge of organizational leadership principles and practices.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement and change management practices and processes.
• Knowledge of principles and practices of natural resource management.
• Knowledge of wildfire prevention and suppression practices, including the Incident Command System (ICS).
• Familiarity with Washington’s Forest Practices Act and Rules.
• Familiarity with Washington State’s legislative process.
• Familiarity with the Revised Code of Washington (RCW) and the Washington Administrative Code (WAC) as these apply to the Department of Natural Resources.

Key Skills:

• Experience-based ability to lead a large organization.
• Strong commitment to ethical leadership and the goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Experience-based ability to create a positive work environment, build morale, and elicit sustained superior job performance.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience-based ability to guide a team through deadline and workload pressures, and to resolve competing workload demands.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively to solve tough problems.
• Experienced-based ability to develop and implement large budgets
• Strong safety awareness and orientation.

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge of natural resource management issues in the Pacific Northwest.
• Knowledge of Washington’s Indian Tribes, tribal sovereignty, and treaty rights.
• Familiarity with principles and practices of labor unions and collective bargaining.

DNR offers a comprehensive benefits package including employer contributions toward health insurance, paid holidays, retirement plans, sick leave, and vacation days.