timber trader
Timber traders assess the quality, quantity and market value of timber and timber products for trade. They organise the selling process of new timber and purchase stocks of timber.
Also called: wood merchant, trader of timber, lumber merchant, lumber trader, timber merchant, timber seller
- 16
- essential skills
- 19
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 3323
- ISCO-08 group
Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
16- advise on timber-based products
- carry out purchasing operations in the timber business
- check quality of raw materials
- distinguish wood quality
- handle timber
- inspect timber
- inspect trees
- manage budgets
- manage timber orders
- manage timber stocks
- negotiate price
- process returned timber products
- sell processed timber in a commercial environment
- study prices of wood products
- timber products
- write technical reports related to trees
Optional skills
19- advise on timber harvest
- comply with timber trade code of conduct
- conduct land surveys
- coordinate timber sales
- guarantee customer satisfaction
- identify market niches
- implement marketing strategies
- implement sales strategies
- manage forests
- manage logs segregation and stacking
- monitor forest health
- monitor forest productivity
- monitor logging operations
- operate forestry machinery
- pack timber products
- process collected survey data
- read maps
- report the results of treatment
- work in a forestry team
Definition and skills from ESCO, published by the European Commission. Source concept
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