Logging Machinery Operator

  • Stayner
  • Kaster Logging Limited

Equipment and Machinery Experience :

  • Skidder
  • Slasher
  • Feller forwarder
  • Chipping machine
  • Chain saw

Additional Skills :

  • Assist other logging and forestry workers

Weight Handling :

  • Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)

Work Site Environment :

  • Dangerous
  • Outdoors
  • Noisy
  • Dusty

Transportation/Travel Information :

  • Willing to travel

Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities :

  • Work under pressure
  • Handling heavy loads
  • Physically demanding
  • Hand-eye co-ordination
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Bending, crouching, kneeling
  • Large workload

Work Location Information :

  • Rural area
  • Various locations

Personal Suitability :

  • Flexibility
  • Accurate
  • Team player
  • Reliability
  • Organized

Cable Yarding System Operators Specific Skills :

  • Operate machines to transport trees from logging areas to landing or log loading sites in mountainous terrain

Mechanical Harvester and Forwarder Operators Specific Skills :

  • Assess site and terrain and drive heavy equipment to perform a combination of felling, slashing, bucking, bunching and forwarding operations

Mechanical Tree Processor and Loader Operators Specific Skills :

  • Operate a variety of machines which perform a combination of slashing, bucking, chipping, sorting and loading logs or trees

Financial benefits :

  • Mileage paid

Long term benefits :

  • Other benefits