Skidder Driver (m/f), Kollam in Kollam, Kerala
Your tasks:
- Drive tractors for the purpose of building or repairing logging and skid roads
- Inspect equipment for safety prior to use, and perform necessary basic maintenance tasks
- Drive crawler or wheeled tractors to drag or transport logs from felling sites to log landing areas for processingand loading
- Drive and maneuver tractors and tree harvesters to shear the tops off of trees, cut and limb the trees, and then cut the logs into desired lengths
- Control hydraulic tractors equipped with tree clamps and booms to lift, swing, and bunch sheared trees
- Drive straight or articulated tractors equipped with accessories such as bulldozer blades, grapples, logging arches, cable winches, and crane booms, to skid, load, unload, or stack logs, pull stumps, or clear brush
- Grade logs according to characteristics such as knot size and straightness, and according to established industryor company standards
- Fill out required job or shift report forms
- Calculate total board feet, cordage, or other wood measurement units, using conversion tables
Your skills:
- Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work
- Talkingto others to convey information effectively
- Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making
- Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes
- Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions
- Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences
- Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things
- Teaching others how to do something
- Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do
- Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times
- Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job
Location
Kollam
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