Forestry labourers perform simple and routine tasks to cultivate and maintain natural and plantation forests, and logging, felling and sawing trees.
Skill level:
Unskilled
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- Salary range for the majority of workers in Forestry labourers - from €2,749 to €4,333 per month - 2025.
- A Forestry labourers typically earns between €2,749 and €4,024 gross per month at the start of the job.
- After 5 years of service, this is between €2,807 and €4,114 per month for a working week of 39 hours.
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Job Responsibilities
- Digging holes for tree planting
- Stacking and loading logs and timber
- Clearing undergrowth in forest stands and thinning young plantations
- Maintaining look-out for fires in forests
- Removing major branches and tree tops, trimming branches and sawing trunks into logs
- Operating and maintaining manual and hand-held machine saws to fell trees and cut felled trees and branches into logs
- Collecting seeds and planting seedlings
- Performing minor repairs and maintenance of forest roads, buildings, facilities and equipment
