NOC 8241 – Logging machinery operators

The National Occupational Classification (NOC) code 8241 is for Logging machinery operators

NOC skill type/level: Skill Level B

Employment requirements

• Completion of secondary school may be required.
• On-the-job training from three to 16 months is provided, depending on the complexity of machinery operated and the type of woodlands operation.
• Experience requirements vary depending on the complexity of machinery operated.
• Mechanical harvester and forwarder operators may require logging experience as a chain saw and skidder operator.
• Feller buncher operators and cable yarder operators usually require three to five years of logging experience.
• Mechanical tree processor and loader operators usually require one to three years of logging experience.
• Certification as a heavy equipment operator may be required.
• Company certification for mobile logging machinery operation may be required.
• Provincial air brake certification may be required in British Columbia, depending on the type of equipment operated.
• Workplace hazardous materials information system (WHMIS) and first aid certificates may be required.
• Knowledge of tree harvesting regulations is required.

List of Job Titles for NOC 8241 – Logging machinery operators

• Bunk skidder operator
• Cable yarding operator
• Cable yarding system operator
• Chipping machine operator
• Chipping machine operator – logging
• Crane and claw operator – logging
• Delimber and buncher operator
• Delimber operator
• Feller buncher operator
• Feller delimber operator
• Feller forwarder operator
• Forwarder operator – logging
• Grapple loader operator – logging
• Grapple operator – logging
• Grapple yarder operator – logging
• Linehorse operator
• Loader operator – logging
• Log loader operator
• Log loading machine operator
• Log process operator
• Log processor operator
• Logging crane operator
• Logging machinery operator
• Logging truck loader
• Mechanical harvester and forwarder operator
• Mechanical harvester operator – logging
• Mechanical tree processor and loader operator
• Mechanical tree processor operator – logging
• Mobile chipper operator – logging
• Mobile whole tree chipper – logging
• Picker truck operator
• Pulpwood harvester operator
• Rigging slinger – logging
• Shortwood harvester operator
• Slasher loader operator
• Slasher operator – logging
• Slasher saw operator – logging
• Slasher sawyer operator – logging
• Slasher-brusher
• Steel spar operator – logging
• Tree harvester operator
• Tree processor operator – logging
• Treelength forwarder operator
• Tree-length harvester operator
• Yarder operator – logging
• Yarding engineer – logging