Job prospects Forest Technician in Ontario

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Job opportunities in Ontario

These outlooks were updated on November 29, 2023.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be moderate for Forestry technologists and technicians (NOC 22112) in Ontario for the 2023-2025 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment is expected to remain relatively stable.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.

What Types of Employers Are Out There?

• Public administration
• Support activities for forestry
• Electric power generation transmission and distribution

What are the Main Trends Affecting Employment?

• Increasing focus on growing and adopting sustainable forest management practices, addressing climate change and expanding urban forestry
• Provincial laws, such as the requirement for regeneration of harvested Crown lands

What Skills Do I Need to Succeed?

• Certification, such as the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) Arborist, may be an asset

What Other Information Will I Find Helpful?

• This occupation is concentrated in northern Ontario.

Here are some key facts about Forestry technologists and technicians in Ontario:

• Approximately 950 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Forestry technologists and technicians mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Utilities (NAICS 22): 20%
  • Forestry and logging and fishing, hunting and trapping (NAICS 113, 114, 1153): 19%
  • Local, municipal, regional, aboriginal and other public administration (NAICS 913-919): 15%
  • Federal government public administration (NAICS 911): 14%
  • Wood product manufacturing (NAICS 321): 9%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 95% compared to 81% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 5% compared to 19% for all occupations
• 56% of forestry technologists and technicians work all year, while 44% work only part of the year, compared to 63% and 37% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 43 weeks compared to 43 weeks for all occupations.
• 6% of forestry technologists and technicians are self-employed compared to an average of 15% for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 77% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 23% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 9% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 13% compared to 25% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: 9% compared to 8% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 56% compared to 22% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 17% compared to 24% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: less than 5% compared to 13% for all occupations

Breakdown by region

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Source Labour Market Information | Prospects Methodology