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Skidder Operator
Employer
ESC Group LtdDate Posted
April 30, 2026Languages
English-
Location Cochrane, AB
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Earnings $24.00 to $27.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 50 to 60 hours per week
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Position Seasonal Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date May 21, 2026
Employer
ESC Group Ltd
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Work site environment
- Outdoors
- Noisy
- Dusty
Tasks
- Write daily basic progress reports
- Operate cable or grapple skidder to move or yard felled trees
- Maintain and perform minor repairs on skidders, chain saws and other equipment
- Assist other logging workers
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- First Aid Certificate
- Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Certificate
- Transportation of Dangerous Goods (TDG) Certificate
Equipment and machinery experience
Skidder
Security and safety
Driver's validity licence check
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Handling heavy loads
- Physically demanding
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
Weight handling
Up to 45 kg (100 lbs)
Own tools/equipment
- Safety equipment/gear
- Steel-toed safety boots
Personal suitability
- Dependability
- Judgement
- Reliability
- Team player
- Accurate
- Organized
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
- Shift
Experience
3 years to less than 5 years
Employment terms options
- Morning
- Night
- Day
- Weekend
- Overtime available
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Interest Codes
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in driving skidders to push trees and logs into bunches and drag logs to roadside loading areas; and in operating chain saws
- METHODICAL
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Interest in moving and yarding felled trees using cable and grapple skidders
- innovative
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Interest in comparing information to service, maintain and make minor repairs to skidders, chain saws and other equipment; may work as members of teams rotating between chainsaw and skidder operations

