chipper operator
ISCO: 8172. Skills: 38. Essential: 12.
Essential skills
Supporting skills
- assess felled timber quality
- assess felled timber volume
- check quality of raw materials
- conduct routine machinery checks
- de-limb trees
- dispose of non-hazardous waste
- handle timber
- identify hazards in the workplace
- inspect machinery
- inspect trees
- inspect wood materials
- manage timber stocks
- meet contract specifications
- monitor heavy machinery
- operate debarking machine
- operate grappler
- operate heavy construction machinery without supervision
- prepare wood production reports
- process timber using hand-fed machinery
- replace knives
- set up the controller of a machine
- timber products
- types of sawing blades
- types of wood
- types of wood chippers
- use wrenches