forestry equipment operator

Job Zone

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4
5. 5

Zone 2: Some Preparation Needed

Some preparation. Usually a high school diploma, some previous work-related skill or experience, and a few months to a year of training with experienced workers.

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 Realistic6.83
• C Conventional4.40
• I Investigative1.81
• S Social1.11
• E Enterprising1.10
• 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 Logging Equipment Operators (45-4022.00): 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 (20)

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.

• assess felled timber quality
• assess felled timber volume
• carry out routine maintenance of wood cutting machinery
• de-limb trees
• drive timber machine
• extract coppice
• fell trees
• identify trees to fell
• load timber onto a skidder
• maintain the security of machinery
• manage logs segregation and stacking
• minimise environmental impact on the surrounding area
• minimize risks in tree operations
• operate forestry machinery
• prepare emergency treework operations
• process arisings from treework operations
• process timber using hand-fed machinery
• reforestation
• select tree felling methods
• spray pesticides