Forestry technician jobs in Finland
Forestry technicians assist and support the forest manager and implement their decisions. They supervise a team of forestry equipment operators and support and supervise forestry and environmental protection through research and data collection. They also manage resource conservation and harvesting plans.
Forestry technician - Which skills are essential?
Local, national and international policies dealing with the promotion of environmental sustainability and the development of projects which reduce negative environmental impact and improve the state of the environment.
Ensure that logging operation follow the contractually agreed terms and specified procedures. Strive to solve any problems that arise during the operation. Improve on existing methods and ensure compliance with safety, company, and government regulations.
Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation or first aid in order to provide help to a sick or injured person until they receive more complete medical treatment.
Carry out, under supervision and as authorised, the spraying of prescribed herbicides in accordance with training and skills acquired, using manufacturers’ application rates, in accordance with materials safety data sheets and any formal procedure and practice in place, and for which clearance has been issued.
Ability to efficiently apply forest legislation and principles.
Inspect the forest roads in order to spot malfunctions, such as fallen trees, and organise repair processes.
Efficiently coordinate timber selling in a profitable way. Assist companies in reaching timber production goals by managing timber sales. Takes lead role in timber sale layout and road location activities including clearing and posting timber sale boundaries, cruising timber to determine volumes and grade and marking trees to be removed in commercial thinning operations.
Regularly ensure that working conditions on site meet health and safety requirements; ensure that the proposed work will not pose a threat to the physical integrity of others.
Determine the maintenance and distribution of seedling . Identify disease and damage done by animals. Prepare and submit notifications, written plans and budgets for reforestation.
Remove some trees from a stand in order to improve tree health, timber value and production.
Plant seeds manually or by using ground equipment.
Check forestry equipment to make sure that it is in working order.
Supervise and coordinate the staff that works in the forestry areas.
Spray vegetation by the sides of roads to control its encroachment on forest roads.
The devices and systems used to extinguish fires; the classes and chemistry of fire.
The ecosystems existing in a forest, starting from bacteria to trees and soil types.
The process of felling, cutting trees and transforming them into timber, including mechanical felling and processing.
Protect life, property and resources by preventing forest fires. Detect, control, restrict and suppress fires when they occur. Integrate knowledge of fire regimes, the effects of fire and the values at risk, the required level of forest protection, and costs of fire-related activities.
Operate various forest instruments such as skidders, bulldozers to pull scarification or site preparation equipment over forest areas to be regenerated.
Forestry technician - Which skills are useful but not essential?
Advise contractors on the interpretation of plans and recommends changes when necessary.
Read maps effectively.
Provide advice to organisations and private persons on planting trees and tree safety. Investigate current conservation and tree management projects.
Collaborate with other forest workers in a team in service of forestry or forest related operations.
Make use of various types of communication channels such as verbal, handwritten, digital and telephonic communication with the purpose of constructing and sharing ideas or information.
Direct a forestry team or crew and guide them to the common goal of completing a variety of forestry related assignments and tasks.
Monitor and improve forest productivity by organising growing, timber harvesting, and health measures.
Recommend technical solutions, including systems, to the client within the framework of a project.
Advise supervisor of problems, changes, or suggestions for more effective regulation practice or development activity.
Ensure that drivers meet the legal requirements to operate, arrive at work at required times, present no signs of alcohol or drug abuse, and follow the commissioned itineraries of the day. Monitor drivers to ensure quality work performance and efficiency. Ensure maintenance of record of time expended and distances covered.
Monitoring equipment implies watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
Monitoring the overall workload of a production in order to keep it within legal and human limits.
Use GPS Systems.
Provide guidance on how to apply the most appropriate timber harvesting method: clearcut, shelterwood, seed tree, group selection or single-tree selection.
Examine the extent of the damage and consequences when an incident causes pollution, and report it to the relevant institution following pollution reporting procedures.