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Crosscut saw operator
Cross-cut saw operator Cross-cut saw specialist Cross-cut saw technician Cross-cut sawyer Crosscut saw operator Crosscut saw specialist Crosscut saw technician Crosscut saw worker Crosscut sawyer
Crosscut saw operators use a manual crosscut saw for felling and bucking trees, or taking off the limbs to obtain logs.
Tasks
Tasks include -
(a) Examining logs and rough lumber to determine size, condition, quality and other characteristics to decide best lumber cuts to carry out, or operating automated equipment to convey logs through laser scanners which determine the most productive and profitable cutting patterns;
(b) Operating and monitoring log in-feed and conveyor systems;
(c) Operating and monitoring head saws, resaws and multiblade saws to saw logs, cants, flitches, slabs or wings and remove rough edges from sawn timber into dressed lumber of various sizes, and saw or split shingles and shakes;
(d) Operating and monitoring plywood core-laying machines and hot-plate plywood presses and machines which cut veneer;
(e) Cleaning and lubricating sawmill equipment.
Knowledge
- Materials (glass, paper, plastic and wood)
- Wholesale and retail sales
- Mechanics and metal trades
- Forestry
- Nursing and midwifery
Digital competencies
- Cutting materials and drilling holes
- Planting, pruning and harvesting trees, crops and other plants
- Operating wood processing and papermaking machinery
- Monitoring quality of products
- Monitoring safety or 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
- Taking a proactive approach
Professional groups of the occupation
Professionals
Legal, social and cultural professionals
Social and religious professionals
Social work and counselling professionals
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Social work and counselling professionals
17
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
6,27%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
30,77% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
64,71%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
11,76%
Part-time contracts
1,13% Turnover index
9
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
-17%
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.
Legal, social and cultural professionals
41%
59%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Legal, social and cultural professionals
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
Social and religious professionals
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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?
Social work and counselling professionals
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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