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Ocupacions

Crosscut saw operator

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

Other denominations:
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

Plant and machine operators, and assemblers

Stationary plant and machine operators

Wood processing and papermaking plant operators

Wood processing plant 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

Wood processing plant operators

19

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

7,01%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

58,33% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

73,68%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

15,79%

Part-time contracts

1,27% Turnover index

9

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

0%

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

68%

32%

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

Wood processing and papermaking plant 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?

Wood processing plant operators

No experience
8%
Less than 1 year
21%
Between 1 and 2 years
21%
Between 2 and 4 years
41%
Between 4 and 8 years
4%
More than 8 years
5%
Manufacturing
33%
Construction
17%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
15%
Education
8%
Transportation and storage
8%
Others
19%

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.