Training Courses: Forestry

Sawdoctor

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Contribute to team effectiveness
Work effectively in the forest and forest products industry
Communicate and interact effectively in the workplace
Implement safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Prepare and interpret sketches and drawings
Maintain sawdoctoring tools
Sharpen and align blades and knives
Select timber for forestry operations
Apply principles of blade design to sawing procedures
Perform brazing and/or silver soldering
Hand sharpen knives and blades
Sharpen cutting tools
Sharpen band saws
Sharpen circular saws
File and set saws
Replace tungsten tips
Replace stellite tips
Manufacture cutting tools
Assess and maintain saw performance
Assess and maintain cutter performance
Profile saw blanks
Recondition band mill wheels
Maintain frame saw blades
Perform routine oxyacetylene welding
Perform routine gas tungsten arc welding
Perform routine gas metal arc welding

Design Manager (Timber Truss and Frame)

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Manage quality customer service
Manage people performance
Facilitate continuous improvement
Contribute to the systematic management of WHS risk
Manage personal work priorities and professional development
Assess product feasibility of designs
Develop, trial and evaluate prototypes
Generate and transfer complex computer-aided drawings and specifications
Manage product design
Apply building codes and standards to residential buildings
Assess timber-framed designs for one and two storey buildings
Assess structural requirements for domestic scale buildings
Manage installation and commissioning of equipment
Diagnose and calculate production costs
Manage an information or knowledge management system
Facilitate the development of a new product
Identify and evaluate marketing opportunities
Develop sustainable energy practices
Undertake value analysis of product or process costs in terms of customer requirements

Production Manager (Timber)

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Manage quality customer service
Manage people performance
Facilitate continuous improvement
Contribute to the systematic management of WHS risk
Manage personal work priorities and professional development
Manage installation and commissioning of equipment
Organise enterprise maintenance programs
Diagnose and calculate production costs
Assess product feasibility of designs
Develop, trial and evaluate prototypes
Optimise CNC operations
Plan production
Facilitate the development of a new product
Manage an information or knowledge management system
Develop a workplace learning environment
Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
Develop competitive systems and practices for an organisation
Manage operational plan
Apply cost factors to work practices

Sawmill Manager

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Manage quality customer service
Manage people performance
Facilitate continuous improvement
Contribute to the systematic management of WHS risk
Manage personal work priorities and professional development
Lead and manage team effectiveness
Schedule and coordinate load shifting
Plan and monitor saw log operations
Implement sustainability in the workplace
Develop competitive systems and practices for an organisation
Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
Diagnose and calculate production costs
Plan production
Sample and test products to specifications
Initiate a quality audit

Production Supervisor (Timber Truss and Frame)

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Monitor safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Monitor quality and product care procedures
Develop teams and individuals
Construct prototypes and samples
Diagnose and calculate production costs
Prepare and advise on a broad range of timber roof truss details using computers
Plan and coordinate product assembly
Apply statistics to operational processes
Undertake process capability improvements
Monitor process capability
Manage quality customer service
Implement operational plan
Implement workplace information system
Develop a workplace learning environment
Apply project risk-management techniques
Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
Manage first aid services and resources

Sawmill Supervisor

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Develop teams and individuals
Monitor safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Monitor quality and product care procedures
Coordinate log debarking operations
Plan and monitor saw log operations
Plan and monitor board conversion
Assess and maintain saw performance
Assess and maintain cutter performance
Plan and coordinate boiler operations
Plan and coordinate heat plant operations
Coordinate timber drying operations
Diagnose and calculate production costs
Implement continuous improvement
Sample and test products to specifications

Harvesting Supervisor

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Develop teams and individuals
Evaluate fire potential and prevention
Monitor safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Monitor and review forestry operations
Monitor quality and product care procedures
Implement harvesting plans
Supervise maintenance of machinery and equipment
Plan and coordinate fire salvage operations
Design log landings and snig tracks
Coordinate log recovery (hook tender)
Identify risk and apply risk management processes
Lead effective workplace relationships
Provide work skill instruction
Organise personal work priorities and development

Production Fabricator (Timber Truss and Frame)

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Work effectively in the forest and forest products industry
Communicate and interact effectively in the workplace
Implement safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Conduct quality and product care procedures
Contribute to team effectiveness
Set up timber floor trusses
Coordinate stock control procedures
Assemble timber wall frames
Lay up timber roof trusses
Operate a truss press
Plan and coordinate product assembly
Schedule and coordinate load shifting
Read and interpret timber truss, floor and/or frame fabrication plans

Designer (Timber Truss and Frame)

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Work effectively in the forest and forest products industry
Communicate and interact effectively in the workplace
Implement safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Conduct quality and product care procedures
Contribute to team effectiveness
Prepare and interpret sketches and drawings
Take off material quantities
Quote and interpret from manufactured timber product plans
Quote and interpret from computerised timber manufactured product plans
Create drawings using computer aided design systems
Interpret designs to prepare timber roof truss drawings and documents using computers
Interpret designs to prepare timber floor system drawings and documents using computers
Provide work skill instruction

Wood Machinist

Skills & Knowledge you will learn View Details

Contribute to team effectiveness
Work effectively in the forest and forest products industry
Communicate and interact effectively in the workplace
Implement safety, health and environment policies and procedures
Conduct quality and product care procedures
Hand sharpen knives and blades
Prepare and interpret sketches and drawings
Select timber for forestry operations
Apply principles of blade design to sawing procedures
Dress boards and timber
Resaw boards and timber
Dress boards using multi-headed machines
Cut material using high speed optimiser
Set up, operate and maintain finger jointing operations
Set up, operate and maintain end matching operations
Take off material quantities
Create drawings using computer aided design systems
Cut material to profile
Machine material
Manufacture using joinery machines
Sharpen cutting tools
Replace saws, blades and guides
Use hand-held tools
Use business technology
Cut material to shape using a saw
Cut panels to profile
Band edges of panels

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