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Job Details

Skidder Operator

Employer

ESC Group Ltd

Date Posted

April 30, 2026

Languages

English
  • Location Cochrane, AB
  • Earnings $24.00 to $27.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 50 to 60 hours per week
  • Position Seasonal Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date May 21, 2026
Job Requirements

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 & Abilities
The Skidder Operator is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Chainsaw and Skidder Operators
OBJECTIVE

Interest in driving skidders to push trees and logs into bunches and drag logs to roadside loading areas; and in operating chain saws

METHODICAL

Interest in moving and yarding felled trees using cable and grapple skidders

innovative

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

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