FORESTY SERVICE AID: WOODLANDS INDIGENIOUS FORESTMANAGEMENT

Department: Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Location: KwaZulu Natal (Mzimkhulu Estate) Salary: R144 024 per annum Requirements: Grade 09 (NQF level 1) or equivalent qualification. No experience required. Knowledge of planting, firefighting, coppice reduction Communication skills, interpersonal skills and listening skills. Planning and execution, Interpersonal relations, acceptance of responsibility, teamwork and self-discipline. Duties: Render Silviculture functions within plantations and indigenous forests. Rehabilitate degraded sites. Conduct the marking of plots, counting and marking of trees, coppice reduction. Update the variety of registers regarding the aspects of work, planting, weeding/manual/chemical, maintain conservation zones, removal of alien species. Perform fire protection and suppression duties. Control pest/ weed infection, protect infrastructure. Infrastructure maintenance. Render harvesting services: conduct log marking and pole measuring. Propagate plants and trees: conduct record keeping of plants/trees. Produce and process poles, cutting/drying/treatment of poles, provide support in selling poles. Enquiries: Mr GW Mnguni at 066 165 6908 Closing Date: 2026-09-21T16:00:00+02:00

• ✓Grade 09 (NQF level 1) or equivalent qualification
• ✓No experience required
• ✓Knowledge of planting, firefighting, coppice reduction Communication skills, interpersonal skills and listening skills
• ✓Planning and execution, Interpersonal relations, acceptance of responsibility, teamwork and self-discipline

• •Render Silviculture functions within plantations and indigenous forests
• •Rehabilitate degraded sites
• •Conduct the marking of plots, counting and marking of trees, coppice reduction
• •Update the variety of registers regarding the aspects of work, planting, weeding/manual/chemical, maintain conservation zones, removal of alien species
• •Perform fire protection and suppression duties
• •Control pest/ weed infection, protect infrastructure
• •Infrastructure maintenance
• •Render harvesting services: conduct log marking and pole measuring
• •Propagate plants and trees: conduct record keeping of plants/trees
• •Produce and process poles, cutting/drying/treatment of poles, provide support in selling poles