A logging equipment operator drives a logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with accessories to fell trees, skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush, and operates stand-alone logging machines such as log chippers. The work involves operating and controlling equipment, monitoring operations, and performing equipment maintenance. This occupation draws on mechanical knowledge, public safety and security, and production and processing, alongside operation and control skills.
Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log chippers.
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A logging equipment operator drives a logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with accessories to fell trees, skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush, and operates stand-alone logging machines such as log chippers. The work involves operating and controlling equipment, monitoring operations, and performing equipment maintenance. This occupation draws on mechanical knowledge, public safety and security, and production and processing, alongside operation and control skills.
Key skills for a Logging Equipment Operators include Mechanical, Public Safety and Security, Production and Processing. Common technologies include SAP software, BCS Woodlands Systems The Logger Tracker, TradeTec TallyWorks Logs, TradeTec TallyWorks TimeTracker. Acelro can analyze your current skills and show you exactly what to learn next.
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