Occupation Atlasforestry technician
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/fbf3aefb-70ff-440b-8724-bac3ed5e2c93
forestry technician
Forestry technicians assist and support the forest manager and implement their decisions. They supervise a team of forestry equipment operators and support and supervise forestry and environmental protection through research and data collection. They also manage resource conservation and harvesting plans.
Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
RCIRealistic · Conventional · Investigative — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.53
- C Conventional4.72
- I Investigative4.37
- S Social2.81
- E Enterprising2.47
- A Artistic1.00
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Forest and Conservation Technicians (19-4071.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply forest legislation
- apply prescribed herbicides
- conduct reforestation surveys
- coordinate timber sales
- de-limb trees
- ecosystem management
- environmental policy
- fire-fighting systems
- forest ecology
- habitat restoration
- logging
- maintain forest roads
- maintain forestry equipment
- manage forest fires
- monitor logging operations
- monitor work site
- operate forestry equipment
- perform tree thinning
- plant green plants
- provide first aid
- reforestation
- supervise forestry workers
- vegetation control
Optional (15)
- advise client on technical possibilities
- advise on timber harvest
- advise on tree issues
- advise supervisors
- lead a team in forestry services
- monitor drivers
- monitor equipment condition
- monitor forest productivity
- monitor workload
- operate GPS systems
- read maps
- report pollution incidents
- sustainable forest management
- use different communication channels
- work in a forestry team
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 23 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
forest worker
7 shared · 19 more of its ownoperate forestry equipment, perform tree thinning, manage forest fires, plant green plants
ESCO · Compare
forester
4 shared · 16 more of its ownsupervise forestry workers, reforestation, de-limb trees, environmental policy
ESCO · Compare
forestry adviser
4 shared · 19 more of its ownapply forest legislation, reforestation, forest ecology, habitat restoration
ESCO · Compare
arboriculturist
4 shared · 22 more of its ownperform tree thinning, plant green plants, forest ecology, de-limb trees
ESCO · Compare
forestry inspector
3 shared · 11 more of its ownmonitor work site, reforestation, de-limb trees
ESCO · Compare
natural resources consultant
3 shared · 13 more of its ownecosystem management, habitat restoration, environmental policy
ESCO · Compare
forest ranger
3 shared · 16 more of its ownreforestation, de-limb trees, habitat restoration
ESCO · Compare
nature conservation officer
3 shared · 25 more of its ownreforestation, de-limb trees, habitat restoration
ESCO · Compare
Use this in your own job architecture
BlissPoint Organization Viewer can link a role directly to this occupation and suggest these skills as that role's starting requirements.
This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.