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Forest worker
Forest worker Forestry assistant Forestry worker Silviculture worker Woodland assistant Woodland worker
Forest workers carry out a variety of jobs to care for and manage trees, woodland areas and forests. Their activities include planting, trimming, thinning and felling trees and protecting them from pests, diseases and damage.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Digging holes for tree planting;
(b) Stacking and loading logs and timber;
(c) Clearing undergrowth in forest stands and thinning young plantations;
(d) Maintaining look-out for fires in forests;
(e) Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs;
(f) Operating and maintaining manual and hand-held machine saws to fell trees and cut felled trees and branches into logs;
(g) Collecting seeds, and planting seedlings;
(h) Performing minor repairs and maintenance of forest roads, buildings, facilities, and equipment.
Knowledge
- Forestry
- Natural environments and wildlife
- Environmental protection technology
Digital competencies
- Marking materials or objects for identification
- Planting, pruning and harvesting trees, crops and other plants
- Cultivating land and crops
- Complying with environmental protection laws and standards
- Complying with health and safety procedures
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
- Working efficiently
- Taking a proactive approach
- Communicating
- Processing information, ideas and concepts
Professional groups of the occupation
Elementary occupations
Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers
Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers
Forestry labourers
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 labourers
114
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
10,28%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
100,00% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
69,30%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
,88%
Part-time contracts
1,02% Turnover index
304
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
-8%
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.
Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers
83%
17%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers
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
Agricultural, forestry and fishery labourers
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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 labourers
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.
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