Forestry worker, seasonal

Forestry and related workers plan, organise and perform operations to plant, conserve and exploit natural and plantation forests.

• assessing sites for afforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees, and establishing and tending young forests;
• identifying trees for felling and estimating the volume of timber harvested;
• operating chainsaws and other machines to thin, prune, remove dead branches, fell trees and cut them into logs;
• gathering and stacking cut logs and branches at the felling site;
• transporting stacked logs along chutes;
• watching for forest fires, participating in firefighting, preparing fire reports and maintaining firefighting equipment;
• controlling weeds and overcrowding in young forests using hand tools and chemicals;
• operating and maintaining skidders, bulldozers or other machines to move equipment to afforestation or logging sites;
• collecting cones, pruning trees, assisting with planting and marking trees for subsequent operations;
• training and supervising other forestry workers, including logging and tree-planting workers.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Charcoal burner, charcoal producer
• Worker, log processing
• Sawyer, forest timber
• Forest worker
• Haulier, timber
• Woodcutter
• Afforestation worker
• Marker, forest stock and timber
• Loader, logs and other timber