Forest worker
Code 9215.1
Forest workers carry out a variety of jobs to care for and manage trees, woodland areas and forests. Their activities include planting, trimming, thinning and felling trees and protecting them from pests, diseases and damage.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- sustainable forest management
- pollution prevention
Skills and competences
- assist forest survey crew
- put up signs
- build fences
- control tree diseases
- perform pest control
- nurse trees
- execute disease and pest control activities
- operate forestry equipment
- maintain the trails
- maintain forestry equipment
- carry out aerial tree rigging
- plant green plants
- plant trees
- spray pesticides
- perform tree thinning
- manage forest fires
- perform weed control operations
- safeguard biodiversity
- climb trees
Transversal competences
- assist tree identification
- act with a high level of safety awareness
- work independently in forestry services
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences