- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 5
- Job Duties:
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or transfer augers. Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions. Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery. Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and other equipment. Maintain farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Attach farm implements such as 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, and spray crops. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers. Drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest, and store grain crops. Drive and operate a self-propelled combine. Record information about crops, such as pesticide use, yields, or costs. Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray, and harvest crops.
Farming with: Corn, Soy Beans, Sunflower, Wheat
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators