- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks,
forklifts, or transfer augers. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders,
or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery. Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust
mechanisms on machinery. Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as
tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment. Maintain farm machinery and notify supervisors
when machinery malfunctions. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or
harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to
feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or
pitchforks. Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize,
dust, and spray crops. Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying
information. Drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store grain
crops. Till soil; plant and cultivate grain. Tow harvesting equipment. Drive trucks to haul crops,
supplies , tools or farm workers. Drive and operate self-propelled combine.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators