Logging Equipment Operators

People in this career often have these skills:

• Operation and Control - Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Operations Monitoring - Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.

People in this career often know a lot about:

• Mechanical - Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Public Safety and Security - Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
• Production and Processing - Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

People in this career often have talent in:

• Control Precision - The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
• Reaction Time - The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness - The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
• Multilimb Coordination - The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.
• Depth Perception - The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.

• Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Response Orientation - The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part.
• Rate Control - The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
• Far Vision - The ability to see details at a distance.

People in this career often do these activities:

• Inspect equipment or facilities to determine condition or maintenance needs.
• Maintain forestry, hunting, or agricultural equipment.
• Operate forestry equipment.
• Evaluate log quality.
• Cut trees or logs.

• Maintain personnel records.
• Measure physical characteristics of forestry or agricultural products.

• Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers

• Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining

• Fallers

• Dredge Operators

• Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

• Pipelayers

• Tire Repairers and Changers

• Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators

• Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic