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Ocupacions

Forest worker

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

Other denominations:
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

Plant and machine operators, and assemblers

Stationary plant and machine operators

Food and related products machine operators

Food and related products machine operators

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

Food and related products machine operators

88

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

7,74%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

8,64% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

67,05%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

1,14%

Part-time contracts

1,00% Turnover index

297

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.

Stationary plant and machine operators

66%

34%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

Stationary plant and machine operators

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

Food and related products machine operators

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?

Food and related products machine operators

Manufacturing
43%
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles
12%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
10%
Education
8%
Administrative and support service activities
7%
Others
20%

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.