Graduates of this qualification will be able to:
- Coordinate workplace health and safety, and communication within a team, while ensuring risks to the physical environment, areas of cultural and/or historical significance value are identified and protected in forest harvesting operations.
- Apply advanced technical skills to operate machinery and equipment in a harvesting operation.
Graduates of the Tree Felling strand will also be able to:
- Develop, implement, and evaluate felling plans in a range of harvesting operational situations.
- Apply conventional and advanced felling cuts to safely and productively fell trees in a range of operational situations in a range of operational situations.
- Apply machine assistance in tree felling.