Overview
This programme is an industry-based, practical forest harvesting programme that will prepare you for a career in the forestry industry. It will provide you with the foundational skills and knowledge you’ll need to begin working in a cable logging or ground-based logging crew.

Programme features include:
• practical, hands-on experience where you’ll get to work in forestry crews or with logging contractors at one of a number of North Island locations
• a chance to see your efforts rewarded if you’re recommended for employment at the end of the programme.

Entry details
To be enrolled in this programme, you’ll need to:
• be at least 16 years old
• be a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident
• have a Level 2 qualification or attain competence in a pre-enrolment assessment that reflects literacy and numeracy abilities
• possess a high level of physical fitness to get the best out of this practical course
• participate in an interview and consent to undergo compulsory drug testing.

What you’ll study
In this programme, you’ll learn about:
• cable logging/ground based logging systems, processes and capabilities
• applying what you’ve learned in a practical, real-world forest harvesting or logging operation.

How you’ll study
The Certificate in Foundational Forest Harvesting is highly practical and involves a mix of practical forestry work and field visits while practising skills learnt in a classroom environment.

Further study
This programme may lead to qualifications in forest harvesting or management at a number of other New Zealand tertiary providers.

Career opportunities
Skills gained in this programme will prepare you for:
• a job as an entry-level cable logging/ground based crew member in forest harvesting/logging operations
• further study which will provide entry to higher level jobs in the forest harvesting industry.

Delivery Sites - Cable Logging: 
Hastings, Porirua, Huntly, Rotorua, Tauranga, Tokoroa and Whanganui

Delivery Sites - Ground Based:
Kawerau, Hastings, Rotorua and Whakatane

Delivery Sites