forestry equipment operator
ISCO: 8341. Skills: 46. Essential: 20.
Essential skills
- assess felled timber quality
- assess felled timber volume
- carry out routine maintenance of wood cutting machinery
- de-limb trees
- drive timber machine
- extract coppice
- fell trees
- identify trees to fell
- load timber onto a skidder
- maintain the security of machinery
- manage logs segregation and stacking
- minimise environmental impact on the surrounding area
- minimize risks in tree operations
- operate forestry machinery
- prepare emergency treework operations
- process arisings from treework operations
- process timber using hand-fed machinery
- reforestation
- select tree felling methods
- spray pesticides
Supporting skills
- advise on timber harvest
- advise on timber-based products
- agronomy
- attach protective attachments to timber piles
- comply with timber trade code of conduct
- drive agricultural machines
- forecast timber production
- forecast workload
- forest conservation
- forest ecology
- harvest timber
- improve timber stands
- inspect timber
- limit load to prevent damage
- maintain edged hand tools
- maintain forest inventory
- maintain forestry equipment
- operate GPS systems
- provide first aid
- report pollution incidents
- report to the team leader
- sharpen edged tools
- timber products
- use hand tools for forestry work
- use ICT systems
- work independently in forestry services