cable yarding operator

Overview

Languages

English or French

Education

• No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience

1 year to less than 2 years

On the road

Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.

Work site environment

• Outdoors
• Dangerous
• Noisy
• Dusty
• Forest firefighting

Work setting

• Rural area
• Remote location
• Relocation costs not covered by employer
• Willing to relocate
• Forestry and logging

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Assess site and terrain before operations
• Assist forestry workers
• Drive heavy equipment to perform a combination of felling, slashing, bucking, bunching and forwarding operations
• Operate a variety of machines which perform a combination of slashing, bucking, chipping, sorting and loading logs or trees
• Operate machines to transport trees from logging areas to landing or log loading sites in mountainous terrain
• Assist other logging workers
• Remove debris from logging site landing area
• Write daily basic progress reports
• Fight forest fires

Credentials

Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses 

• First Aid Certificate
• Chainsaw Safety Training

Experience and specialization

Type of harvesting

• Saw log harvesting

Type of logging

• Clear cutting (patch logging)
• Selective cutting

Equipment and machinery experience

• Grapple
• Yarder
• Chain saw
• Skidder

Specialization or experience

• Green economy sector
• Specialized environmental skills and knowledge

Additional information

Transportation/travel information

• Own transportation

Work conditions and physical capabilities

• Ability to work independently
• Work under pressure
• Tight deadlines
• Handling heavy loads
• Physically demanding
• Manual dexterity
• Attention to detail
• Hand-eye co-ordination
• Combination of sitting, standing, walking
• Bending, crouching, kneeling
• Large workload

Weight handling

• Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)

Own tools/equipment

• Safety equipment/gear
• Steel-toed safety boots
• Hard hat
• Safety glasses/goggles
• Gloves
• Ear plugs

Personal suitability

• Accurate
• Judgement
• Team player

Benefits

Other benefits

• Free parking available
• Parking available