countryside officer
ISCO: 2133. Skills: 48. Essential: 31.
Essential skills
- advise on fertiliser and herbicide
- animal species
- build fences
- build garden masonry
- characteristics of plants
- conserve natural resources
- de-limb trees
- develop natural areas works programmes
- ensure aquaculture personnel health and safety
- environmental legislation in agriculture and forestry
- estimate costs in farm
- execute disease and pest control activities
- identify plants characteristics
- lead a team in forestry services
- maintain technical equipment
- manage budgets
- manage crop production
- manage staff
- manage waste rock
- minimize risks in tree operations
- natural areas maintenance
- operate horticulture equipment
- operate turf management equipment
- perform pest control
- perform weed control operations
- pest control in plants
- plant disease control
- plant green plants
- plant species
- prepare planting area
- read maps
Supporting skills
- apply forest legislation
- conduct land surveys
- develop forestry strategies
- fire-fighting systems
- forest ecology
- harvest crop
- maintain turf and grass
- make independent operating decisions
- manage time in forestry
- manage waste
- perform outdoor cleaning activities
- plant harvest methods
- seed the ground
- soil structure
- support volunteers
- sustainable forest management
- waste management