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Forest Worker
Alternative Titles:
Forestry Worker, Harvesting Contractor, Logger
Forest workers assist with growing, maintaining and
harvesting timber plantations.
A forest worker may perform the following tasks:
- prepare sites for tree planting
- raise and package cuttings and seedlings at a forest
nursery
- undertake planting and other regrowth activities of
native or plantation forests
- control weeds and pests in both new and established
forests
- prune and thin trees in plantations by hand and using
mechanical equipment
- collect seeds
- construct and maintain facilities such as access roads,
buildings and visitors' amenities
- prevent and put out fires, including maintenance of fire
breaks, fire spotting, controlled burning and fire fighting
- maintain forestry equipment and vehicles
- fell trees safely and efficiently using chainsaws,
handsaws, axes and wedges
- operate a wide range of mechanical harvesting equipment
- observe correct environmental practices to minimise
impact on roads, water courses and wildlife corridors
- prepare logs for transportation by removal of limbs,
de-barking, log cutting and grading
- hand pruning
- mark trees for harvesting.
Forest workers are usually employed in small work teams.
They may work in softwood and hardwood plantations and
forests, in rural areas or in isolated bush locations. Much of
the work is outdoors and therefore subject to varying weather
conditions. Some aspects of the work can be physically
demanding.
Required Skills - Forest Worker
- interested in practical work
- sound literacy and numeracy skills
- alert and safety conscious
- physically fit
- good hand-eye coordination
- enjoy working outdoors
- enjoy forest protection and regeneration
- computer literate
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