Description
Set up and monitor the machine that strips remaining bark from timber or logs before they can be further processed, for example chipped for pulp production.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 3 occupations
- Total: 4 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential for
- Debarker operatorDebarker operators operate debarking machines to strip harvested trees of their bark. The tree is fed into the machine, after which the bark is stripped using abrasion or cutting.……
Optional for
- Chipper operatorChipper operators tend machines that chip wood into small pieces for use in particle board, for further processing into pulp, or for use in its own right. Wood is…
- Engineered wood board machine operatorEngineered wood board machine operators work with machines to bond particles or fibres made from wood or cork. Various industrial glues or resins are applied to obtain fibre board,…
- Digester operatorDigester operators, or cooks, cook wood chips with soda ash or acid to separate the wood pulp from unwanted constituents. They test the resulting solution. Other titles The followi…