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Career Guidance Skills working with machinery and specialised equipment S8.4 - operating machinery for the extraction and processing of raw materials S8.4.6 - operating wood processing and papermaking machinery Operate wood chipper
Description
Operate wood chipper machine by inserting long logs, poles, and pieces of timber, producing wood chips.
Occupations requiring this skill
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Skill demand overview
- Essential in 1 occupations
- Optional in 2 occupations
- Total: 3 occupations
- Most common in: ISCO major group 8 (Plant and machine operators, and assemblers)
Essential 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…
Optional for
- 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…
Related skills
- Types of wood chippers
- Troubleshoot
- Wear appropriate protective gear
- Operate debarking machine
- Types of wood
- Work safely with machines
- Quality standards
- Set up the controller of a machine
- Supply machine
- Monitor chipper machine
- Check quality of raw materials
- Identify hazards in the workplace
- Drive chipper truck
Last updated on February 19, 2026
