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Forest ranger

Latest available data: December 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Forest ranger Forestry officer Woodland officer Woodland ranger

Forest rangers are responsible for the protection and conservation of natural resources, particularly in regards to forests and woodlands.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Assessing sites for reforestation, selecting seedlings and planting trees using manual planting tools and establishing and caring for forest stands;
(b) Locating trees to be felled and estimating volume of timber;
(c) Operating chainsaw and other power saws to thin young forest stands, trim, top and fell trees and saw them into logs;
(d) Shaping rough wooden products from logs at felling site;
(e) Stacking logs and loading them in chutes or floating them down rivers;
(f) Keeping watch to detect forest fires, participating in firefighting operations, completing firefighting reports and maintaining firefighting equipment;
(g) Controlling weeds and undergrowth in regenerating forest stands using manual tools and chemicals;
(h) Operating and maintaining a skidder, bulldozer or other prime mover to pull a variety of scarification or site preparation equipment over areas to be regenerated;
(i) Collecting seed cones, pruning trees, assisting in planting surveys and marking trees for subsequent operations;
(j) Training and supervising other workers in forestry procedures, including forestry labourers and plant operators.

Knowledge

  • Forestry
  • Management and administration
  • Law
  • Biology
  • Natural environments and wildlife

Digital competencies

  • Monitoring environmental conditions
  • Planting, pruning and harvesting trees, crops and other plants
  • Developing professional relationships or networks
  • Cultivating land and crops
  • Maintaining and enforcing physical security

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Communicating
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Working efficiently
  • Taking a proactive approach
  • Leading others

Professional groups of the occupation

Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers

Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers

Forestry and related workers

Forestry and related workers

Related training

Vocational training
  • Use and conservation of the natural environment IVET
Certificates of professionalism
  • Reforestation and silvicultural treatments CP2
  • Operations of forest fire surveillance and extinction and support for emergencies in natural and rural environments CP2
  • Forest harvesting CP2

Legend by training level:

Bachelor's degree and Master's degree
HVET: Higher Vocational Education and Training, IVET: Initial Vocational Education and Training, IQP: Initial Qualification Programme
Certificates of professionalism 1, 2, or 3

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Forestry and related workers

68

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

5,21%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-4,23% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

41,18%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

7,35%

Part-time contracts

1,11% Turnover index

98

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-9%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers

85%

15%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Market-oriented skilled forestry, fishery and hunting workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Forestry and related workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Forestry and related workers

Information and communication
100%
0%
0%
0%
0%
0%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.