Tractor Operator

Tractor Operator 

Location: Halesworth

The Role

Working as part of an established estate team, your primary responsibility will be operating a forestry tractor with timber crane to extract timber from woodland and timber stacks.

Duties will include:

• Forwarding and extracting timber from woodland areas

• Grading timber into appropriate categories (milling, firewood, chippable) using your own judgement and experience

• Loading and transporting timber

• Supporting wider estate operations, including:

  • Loading and transporting woodchip

  • Power harrowing

  • Low-loader towing

• Operating modern tractors and telehandlers

You must have proven experience operating Valtra tractors (or equivalent) and telehandlers.

What You’ll Need

Essential:

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar forestry, agricultural, or estate-based role

• Experience operating modern Valtra or Massey Ferguson tractors

• Confident fitting and removing equipment and attachments

• Ability to change PTO shafts (540 / 1000)

• Telehandler ticket (LANTRA or NPORS)

• Experience changing buckets, bucket brushes, and tines

• Ability to reverse trailers into tight spaces

• Clear and concise communication skills

• Physically fit and comfortable working outdoors in all weather conditions

• Full UK driving licence and own transport

Desirable (not essential):

• Forestry forwarding or timber extraction experience

• Experience using attachments such as power harrows, cultivators, graders, rollers, flail or rotary toppers

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