How much does an Forest engineer earn
A Forest engineer earns between $2.324 and $15.004 per month, with an average monthly salary of $6.426 and a median salary of $5.842 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.
Our research is based on the salaries of 698 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).
| Monthly Salary | Annual Salary | Salary Per Week | Hourly Salary | |
| Average wage | 6.426 | 77.108 | 1.606 | 32 |
| 1º Quartile | 2.324 | 27.887 | 581 | 12 |
| Median Salary | 5.842 | 70.102 | 1.460 | 29 |
| 3º Quartile | 11.443 | 137.313 | 2.861 | 57 |
| Higher Salary | 15.004 | 180.050 | 3.751 | 75 |
Professional job categories
- Science and arts professionals
- professionals of biological sciences, health
- agronomists
- agriforestry and livestock engineers
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Main workplaces
Agriforestry and Livestock Engineers they work in agriculture, livestock and forestry, forestry, fishing and aquaculture activities, in public and private companies and in producer cooperatives. They act as employees, service providers or public servants. There is also the possibility of placement in public quality inspection bodies or product classifiers and in public rural extension companies. They work as a team, with occasional supervision, in the open, often exposed to adverse weather conditions. May remain in uncomfortable conditions for long periods, subject to exposure to toxic materials and loud noise.
What does it take to work in the field of Agriforestry and Livestock Engineers
The occupations require a complete higher education in the area for their exercise. The presence of professionals with master's, doctoral or specialization courses is frequent.
Functions and activities of Forest engineer
Agriforestry and Livestock Engineers must:
Activities
- deliver courses, seminars, lectures.;
- supervise waste treatment processes;
- develop written expression;
- guide rural property management;
- diagnose situations;
- manage heritage resources;
- develop leadership;
- elaborate projects;
- collect technical information;
- develop negotiation skills;
- prescribe agricultural prescriptions;
- organize events;
- set production parameters;
- inventory physical and financial resources of the enterprise;
- guide the planning, execution, control and administration of production systems;
- to gather technical information;
- testing the performance of equipment, machines, materials ;
- define production parameters;
- show receptivity;
- adapt language;
- coordinating interinstitutional programs and agreements;
- coordinate training;
- elaborate inventory of available resources (natural, machinery, equipment);
- monitor control items of the production process and /or environmental;
- developing biotechnology;
- elaborate statistical studies;
- identify needs;
- supervise activities of the production system (agriculture , aquaculture, forestry, livestock);
- elaborate technical-scientific articles;
- coordinate the work team;
- evaluate agroforestry activities;
- cultivate flexibility in interpersonal relationships;
- demonstrate discernment;
- adapt technology;
- guide the use of alternative energy sources;
- inspect product quality and health;
- supervise construction and maintenance of rural infrastructure;
- perform technical visits;
- guide the commercialization of agroforestry products;
- organize events;
- inspect extractivism activities;
- perform topographic survey;
- develop oral expression;
- analyze collected samples and laboratory analysis results ;
- capture financial resources;
- analyzing technical, socioeconomic and environmental feasibility of proposed solutions;
- develop products, equipment and accessories;
- inspect works in progress;
- develop logical thinking;
- supervise the process in the management of natural resources ( biotic and abiotic);
- analyze projects, contracts, agreements, proposals techniques, work programs.;
- carry out market studies;
- prosecute environmental and forestry crimes;
- elaborate activity reports;
- supervise process in natural resource management ( biotic and abiotic);
- seize agroforestry products;
- issue reports and technical opinions;
- show adaptability;
- perform expertise and audits;
- intermediate agreements, contracts, partnerships;
- elaborate technical standards and procedures;
- supervise degraded area recovery processes;
- elaborate material for the dissemination of products, services, equipment;
- embargo agroforestry activities of infringing establishments;
- demonstrate creativity;
- discussing proposed solutions with stakeholders;
- manage financial resources;
- developing processes and waste treatment systems;
- guide processes of sustainable use and conservation of soil, water and environment;
- estimating costs;
- perform an environmental survey;
- define chronological ordering and logistics of actions;
- inspect origin, transport and commercialization of products of animal and plant origin;
- organize producer associations;
- demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit;
- developing specific computer programs;
- coordinate interinstitutional programs and agreements;
Sectors that hire Forest engineer the most in the job market
- engineering services
- manufacture of pulp and other pulp for papermaking
- support activities for forestry production
- construction of electricity distribution stations and networks
- activities of associations for the defense of social rights
- associative activities
- technical activities related to engineering and architecture
- timbering in planted forests
- eucalyptus cultivation
- other professional, scientific and technical activities
