A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in handling, classifying, peeling, trimming, notching and boring, and branding lumber for use as crossties, pilings, bridge timbers, and utility poles. Responsibilities include:

• Assigns space in yard for lumber, according to production schedule and type and condition of lumber.
• Schedules peeling, trimming, adzing, and boring of lumber, according to classification of lumber and length of time in yard.
• Orders branding of lumber with identification data, such as customer, type of lumber, and date of treatment.
• Performs other duties as described under supervisor master title.
• May be designated according to type of product as pole yard supervisor; tie yard supervisor.