What the posting asks for

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Hours and terms

• Full time, Permanent employment

Usually needed for this kind of work

• Feller buncher operators and cable yarder operators usually require three to five years of logging experience.
• Mechanical tree processor and loader operators usually require one to three years of logging experience.
• Company certification for mobile logging machinery operation may be required.
• Workplace hazardous materials information system (WHMIS) and first aid certificates may be required.
• Completion of secondary school may be required.
• Mechanical harvester and forwarder operators may require logging experience as a chain saw and skidder operator.
• Experience requirements vary depending on the complexity of machinery operated.
• Certification as a heavy equipment operator may be required.
• Knowledge of tree harvesting regulations is required.
• On-the-job training from three to 16 months is provided, depending on the complexity of machinery operated and the type of woodlands operation.

From Canada's occupation guide (OaSIS) for Logging machinery operators (NOC 83110). It describes this kind of work in general, not this employer's ad.

What this work usually involves

• Cable yarding system operators
• Operate machines to transport trees from logging areas to landing or log loading sites in mountainous terrain in western Canada.
• Mechanical harvester and forwarder operators
• Assess site and terrain and drive heavy equipment to perform a combination of felling, slashing, bucking, bunching and forwarding operations at logging areas.
• Mechanical tree processor and loader operators
• Operate a variety of machines which perform a combination of slashing, bucking, chipping, sorting and loading logs or trees at landing sites.

About the employer

• Region: Kootenay Region