Silviculture Worker
About this job
The Employee will undertake the following duties: Maintaining forest roads, buildings, facilities, signs and equipment. Killing weeds, felling and de-barking non-productive trees and thinning young plantations. Cultivating and planting seedlings for reforestation purposes. Applying fertiliser, insecticide and herbicide to individual trees and general forest areas. Maintaining look-out for fires in forests. Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs assisting with loading and transporting logs. Planning the felling of trees and determining the natural and intended fall of each tree clearing surrounding area of saplings and debris prior to tree-felling. Operating and maintaining manual and machine saws to fell trees and to cut felled trees into log. Other reasonable duties as required. You also have the opportunity to be paid production rate based on targets set and achieved. Experienced workers preferred.
Job Requirements
Experience in Forestry and familiar with the indisutry.
- Days of work
- Monday - Friday 5:30am-5:30pm (30 hours per week)
- Pay Details
- $24-$35.00 p/h (depending on experience)
- Job Category
- Forestry and Logging Workers
- Career Level
- Intermediate (2 - 4 years)
- Driver Licence
- Not Required
- Pre-employment drug test required
- Yes
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