Forestry and Logging Workers
ANZSCO 8413
2,200
51 yrs
Stable
Source: Jobs and Skills Australia · ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing.
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Forestry and Logging Workers is a job in Australia. The job figures on this page come from Jobs and Skills Australia and the ABS Census, where they are published. The courses listed here lead to this job. Compare the fee, study mode, length, place, and how to get in before you enquire.
Jobs and Skills Australia rates the job outlook as Stable.
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About this career
Forestry and Logging Workers perform routine tasks associated in cultivating and maintaining natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees. Tree Surgeons not included here, they are included under Gardeners.
What they typically do
- Maintaining forest roads, buildings, facilities, signs and equipment
- Killing weeds, felling and de-barking non-productive trees and thinning young plantations
- Collecting seeds, and cultivating and planting seedlings for reafforestation purposes
- Applying fertilisers, insecticides and herbicides to individual trees and general forest areas
- Maintaining look-out for fires in forests
- Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs
- Assisting with loading and transporting logs
- Planning the felling of trees and determining the natural and intended fall of each tree
- Clearing surrounding area of saplings and debris prior to tree-felling
- Operating and maintaining manual and machine saws to fell trees and to cut felled trees into logs
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Qualification pathways
These accredited qualifications can lead to a career as a Forestry and Logging Workers.
No qualification pathways published on training.gov.au yet.