Forestry Services Aid: Woodlands & Indegineous Forest Management
DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY, FISHERIES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Overview
Render Silviculture functions within the plantations and forests. Conduct the marking of plots, counting and marking of trees.
Requirements
- Grade 9 (NQF level 1) or equivalent qualification as recognised by SAQA
- No experience required
- All shortlisted candidates, including SMS, shall undertake two pre-entry assessments
- One must be a practical exercise, and the other must be an Integrity (Ethical Conduct) Assessment
- Knowledge of planting and firefighting
- Communication skills, interpersonal skills and listening skills
- Planning and execution, acceptance of responsibility, teamwork and self - discipline
Responsibilities
- Render Silviculture functions within the plantations and forests
- Conduct the marking of plots, counting and marking of trees
- Maintain equipment used
- Update a variety of registers regarding the aspects of work
- Grade and record dried wood
- Prepare site
- Planting
- Weeding / Manual / Chemical
- Coppice reduction
- Wattle Spacing
- Rehabilitation of degraded sites
- Maintain conservation zones
- Removal of alien species
- Preform forest protection tasks
- Perform fire protection and suppression duties
- Maintain fir efighting equipment
- Protect infrastructure
- Perform forest protection task
- Fight forest/veld fire
- Perform fire protection suppression duties
- Maintain firefighting equipment
- Control pest/weed infection
- Render harvesting services
- Clear felling
- Debarking
- Manual slipping of poles
- Conduct log marking and pole measuring
- Propagate plants and trees
- Monitor the propagation of activities
- Conduct record keeping of plant/trees
- Produce and process poles
- Cutting, drying, grading, tr eatment and sampling of poles
How to apply
Application instructions from the official source
All applications to be submitted online on the following link: https://erecruitment.environment.gov.za/
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Enquiries
Recruitment enquiries
Ms Nomakhaya Mengqani, at 066 328 7869
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