Forestry technician
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Forestry technician
Training in agriculture, forestry and wildlife management, leading to a baccalaureate and a technician qualification.
Optional specialisations:
- Specialisation in forestry
- specialisation in wildlife management
Forestry technicians are qualified to work in forestry and wildlife management at intermediate level, with managerial responsibilities at intermediate level. He/she cooperates with workplace managers, helps to carry out professional tasks, organises and directs the work of contractors and subordinates.
COMPETENCY PROFILE
The forestry technician performs managerial tasks at intermediate level in the field of forestry and wildlife management, requiring an intermediate level of education. He/she cooperates with the managers at the workplace, helps to carry out professional tasks, organises and directs the work of contractors and subordinates.
THE QUALIFIED
- knowledge of the complex functioning of forest ecosystem factors;
- can produce forest reproductive material;
- can carry out soil analysis and meteorological measurements;
- knowledge of traditional and modern technologies for the production of forest reproductive material;
- organises, directs and contributes to silvicultural work;
- organises and manages afforestation work;
- knows the most important insect and fungal pests; carries out forest protection tasks;
- manages and occasionally carries out felling operations;
- carries out estimates of the volume of wood;
- operate and maintain forestry machinery;
- use digital tools in the forest;
- performs game management and protection tasks;
- assisting in hunting operations, organising hunting;
- organise habitat development;
- performs nature conservation tasks;
- carries out administrative tasks;
- planning, starting up and running an agricultural enterprise based on market research;
- is familiar with the laws and regulations affecting his/her profession, and is aware of current opportunities for tendering and rural development.
Our forestry technician training is aimed at young people who see working in a forest environment as a vocation rather than a job. It is recommended for those who are able to diversify their activities, like to work in a team and want to take on middle management tasks.
Optional courses and specialisations in a 5-year technician course
- Agricultural technician
- Specialisation in animal husbandry
- Specialisation in crop production
- Agricultural engineering technician
- Forestry technician
- Specialisation in forestry
- Specialisation in wildlife management
The advantages of choosing a technician course
- You choose a sector for the first time, which you learn about for 2 years.
- You choose your profession after the first year.
- A technical school combines the advantages of high school and vocational training:
- Mathematics, Hungarian, history and a foreign language have the same curriculum as at grammar school.
- A language examination is possible, as at the upper secondary school, but one language is compulsory. Schools may offer more than one language option in their individual offer.
- There is no need to choose a fifth subject for the school-leaving certificate, as the vocational examination will be the fifth subject.
- The technical examination is considered an advanced baccalaureate subject. On completion of year 5, you will receive both a diploma and a diploma in technology.
- You can be a high school student by getting a scholarship and, in the case of dual training, the company offers you a work contract, which means you will have an income.
Agriculture and forestry sector
Mechanisation and automation are playing an increasingly important role in the agricultural professions as a result of technological progress.
The sector combines technical achievements with the beauty of manual work. It combines state-of-the-art mechanisation, digitalisation and traditional artisanal farming.
Agricultural production and services are a way of dealing with the living world, with living beings, which, because of their natural and biological characteristics, create specific conditions and pose a major challenge for the practical dissemination and diffusion of innovations (i.e. new innovations and new processes).
The area includes crop production, livestock farming, horticulture, forestry, agricultural mechanisation, game management and fisheries, land surveying and geo-information, which offer a diversity of production/agriculture and services.
The professions in this sector are of the broadest interest.
Fox cub – photo by László Molnár