Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a forestry equipment operator can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a forestry equipment operator already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Forestry equipment operators carry out operations with specialised equipment in the forest to maintain, harvest, extract and forward wood for the manufacturing of consumer goods and industrial products.

Also known as woodland equipment operator, logging equipment operator, woodcutter, woodman, logger, lumberjack, chainsaw operator, mobile sawmill operator.

Plant and machine operators and assemblers 46 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: forestry machinery technician, 29%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
forestry machinery technician 29% covered tree surgeon 23% covered forestry technician 21% covered timber trader 19% covered forester 18% covered forestry equipment operat… You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from forestry equipment operator, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a forestry equipment operator already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A forestry equipment operator needs 20 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • extract coppice handling and moving
  • load timber onto a skidder working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • maintain the security of machinery working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • minimise environmental impact on the surrounding area working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • prepare emergency treework operations management skills
  • process arisings from treework operations handling and moving
  • carry out routine maintenance of wood cutting machinery constructing
  • drive timber machine working with machinery and specialised equipment
  • manage logs segregation and stacking handling and moving
  • fell trees handling and moving
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a forestry equipment operator does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

Index

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Forestry equipment operator is filed under Plant and machine operators and assemblers, ISCO major group 8. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a forestry equipment operator’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.