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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.1 - operating mobile plant S8.1.2 - operating agricultural or forestry equipment Maintain forestry equipment
Description
Check forestry equipment to make sure that it is in working order.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 3 occupations
- Optional in 5 occupations
- Total: 8 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 7 (Craft and related trades workers)
Essential for
- Forest workerForest workers carry out a variety of jobs to care for and manage trees, woodland areas and forests. Their activities include include planting, trimming, thinning and felling trees…
- Forestry machinery technicianForestry machinery technicians maintain and transport forestry machinery. As part of the maintenance of forestry machinery, they make use of specialised software and data reco…
- Forestry technicianForestry technicians assist and support the forest manager and implement their decisions. They supervise a team of forestry equipment operators and support and supervise forestry a…
Optional for
- Forestry equipment operatorForestry equipment operators carry out operations with specialised equipment in the forest to maintain, harvest, extract and forward wood for the manufacturing of consumer goods an…
- Agriculture, forestry and fishery vocational teacherAgriculture, forestry and fishery vocational teachers instruct students in their specialised field of study, agriculture, forestry and fishery, which is predominantly practical in …
- Construction equipment technicianConstruction equipment technicians inspect, maintain and repair heavy-duty vehicles used in construction, forestry and earthworks such as bulldozers, excavators and harvesters. The…
- ArboriculturistArboriculturists carry out specialised tasks related to observation, health and maintenance of trees. Excludes forest worker.Excludes forestry equipment operator.Includes people pe…
- Tree surgeonTree surgeons maintain trees. They use heavy machinery to prune and cut trees. Tree surgeons are often required to climb the trees to perform maintenance. Duties Tree surgeons typi…
Related skills
- Forestry regulations
- De-limb trees
- Forest ecology
- Operate forestry equipment
- Report pollution incidents
- Perform tree thinning
- Assist tree identification
- Carry out aerial tree rigging
- Advise on tree issues
- Climb trees
- Control tree diseases
- Provide first aid
- Operate forestry machinery
Last updated on February 18, 2026
