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Forest ranger
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
Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Forestry and related workers
71
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
6,42%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
14,52% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
47,89%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
4,23%
Part-time contracts
1,13% Turnover index
108
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
87%
13%
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
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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 and related workers
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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