Operator, Tree Processor

Education: Other trades certificate or diploma
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years
**Work site environment**:

- Outdoors
- Noisy
**Work setting**:

- Staff accommodation available
- Rural area
- Remote location
**Tasks**:

- Assess site and terrain and drive heavy equipment to perform a combination of felling, slashing, bucking, bunching and forwarding operations
- Operate a variety of machines which perform a combination of slashing, bucking, chipping, sorting and loading logs or trees
- Assist other logging and forestry workers
- Clean up landing areas at logging sites
- Write daily basic progress reports
**Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- First Aid Certificate
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- Heavy Equipment Operator Trade Certification
**Type of harvesting**:

- Pulpwood harvesting
- Saw log harvesting
**Type of logging**:

- Clear cutting (patch logging)
- Selective cutting
**Equipment and machinery experience**:

- Log processor
- Shortwood harvester
**Transportation/travel information**:

- Valid driver's licence
- Own transportation
- Own vehicle
- Willing to travel
**Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
**Own tools/equipment**:

- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Gloves
- Ear plugs
**Personal suitability**:

- Excellent oral communication
- Team player
- Work Term: Seasonal
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 to 45 hours per week