Education programmes of job
Nature of work
He/she works independently to study land nature and identify forests areas, prepare planting plans and take care of forests and woodlots, develop forest lands uses to achieve the target and increase the productivity, and select appropriate forests species. He/she Prepares seedlings and trees care tools bid stipulations, studies them financially, prepares the technical reports, manages his, works on developing their skills, develops procedures and provides requirements of occupational safety and health.The tasks are:
- Identifying forests and woodlots areas
- Preparing afforestation programs and preserving wild life
- Preparing forests protection programs
- Replanting natural forests to improve green areas
- Preparing grazing programs and determining pastoral load and time
- Preparing seeds gathering and planting programs
- Identifying work materials, equipment schedule, and its qualification.
- Preparing bid stipulations and studying them financially and technically.
- Preparing technical reports.
- Developing procedures and working methods using modern techniques
- Evaluating performance to determine their need for training and train them to develop their skills
- Providing and developing occupational safety and health requirements
Environment of work
- Hours vary, but they usually have about forty hours work a week.
- Work environment ranges between the office , field, field trips to forests and afforestation sites
- He/she can work independently in case of consulting
- Full-time work is required.
- Men and women can work in this job.
- This profession is constantly evolving and need to constant qualifications.
Professional life
- It is important job for developing forests reservation. Providing afforestation engineer at the forests and afforestation sites is a governmental responsibility
- He/she can gain practical and theoretical experience in afforestation through training courses, seminars, workshops and activities
- He/she can work independently or as part of a team in private or public sector.
- Starting salary of work in the public sector will be at least 20000 Syrian pounds
- He contributesinidentifying lands, living nature, weather, site geology and topography, soil, plants, and animals’ diversity.
- He works on forestry lands and human resources development and coordinates between the concerned authorities to implement programs of economic with social and environmental development services in reforestation and forest areas.
- The work can be done by men or women but the presence of men in the team is preferred cause of the need to be present in nature most of the working hours.
- Most of the field work requires to wear appropriate fields
- Afforestation engineer may travel abroad for gaining or providing experience in farm management
- This job sometimes requires travelling abroad to train and gain experience from other countries' experiences.
Sectors of careers
- Agriculture and Ecology Ministry and its Departments
- Forests and Afforestation Sites
- Forestry Department
- Rural Development Centers
- Forestry, Agriculture, and Environment Research Centers
- Colleges of Agricultural and Civil Engineering and technical institutes
Getting the job
- For getting this job, the person has to study in Agriculture Faculty, Department of Renewable Natural Resources and Ecology.
- The students during that should get some related courses such as: Different agricultural courses including forests trees, biodiversity, andwildlife, in addition to some practical agricultural courses such as forestry forests management and uses, rural development, and some supporting knowledge such as foreign languages, computer programming, engineering quality knowledge.
- Preferably, Agriculture Faculty graduated students pursue their graduated program studies in Renewable Natural Resources and Ecology Department to get their master's and Ph.D. degrees
Skills
- Ability to develop eco-tourism and environmental awareness programs
- Ability to protect natural forests and restore wildlife into forests
- Ability to provide alternative natural pasture instead of forests
- Ability to introduce forest tree in agro-forest systems
- Ability to use multi-purpose forest species in the afforestation
- Ability to use the species that are adapted to region environmental conditions in order to stave off some climate changes effects on species
- Ability to develop plans and programs for afforestation methods and coordinate with relevant authorities
- Ability to identify natural plant species and its classification to choose the appropriate ones to achieve sustainable development
- Ability to prepare natural plants distribution maps
- Ability to work as a team to pursue projects work process and work on maintaining and supporting the forests role
Sources and references
- Agriculture Faculty Internal Regulation 2007 – Aleppo University.
- Arab Standard Classification of Occupations- Arab Labor Organization-2008.
- National Academic Reference Standard (NARS)- Syrian High Education Ministry- 2012.