Cable Yarding Operator
ID: #
49481996
Services forestiers des Sommets
Posted:May 6, 2026
Expires:May 22, 2026
Description
- Location: Riviere-Rouge , QC J0T 1T0
- Work location: On the road
- Salary: $ 34.64 HOUR hourly / 30 to 40 hours per week
- Job Type: Full Time
- Overtime required, Early morning, Morning, Day, On call, Flexible hours, Overtime available
- Vacancies: 1
Languages
English or French
Education
- No degree, certificate or diploma
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
On the road
Work locations may vary. Frequent or constant travel is required from the employee.
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Dangerous
- Noisy
- Dusty
- Forest firefighting
Work setting
- Rural area
- Remote location
- Relocation costs not covered by employer
- Willing to relocate
- Forestry and logging
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Assess site and terrain before operations
- Assist forestry workers
- Drive heavy equipment to perform a combination of felling, slashing, bucking, bunching and forwarding operations
- Operate a variety of machines which perform a combination of slashing, bucking, chipping, sorting and loading logs or trees
- Operate machines to transport trees from logging areas to landing or log loading sites in mountainous terrain
- Assist other logging workers
- Remove debris from logging site landing area
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Fight forest fires
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- Chainsaw Safety Training
Experience and specialization
Type of harvesting
- Saw log harvesting
Type of logging
- Clear cutting (patch logging)
- Selective cutting
Equipment and machinery experience
- Grapple
- Yarder
- Chain saw
- Skidder
Specialization or experience
- Green economy sector
- Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
Additional information
Transportation/travel information
- Own transportation
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Ability to work independently
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Large workload
Weight handling
- Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
- Hard hat
- Safety glasses/goggles
- Gloves
- Ear plugs
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Judgement
- Team player
Benefits
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Parking available