- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 5
- Job Duties:
- Performs duties like: drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest and store grain, cotton, tobacco, and sweet potatoes. Attach farm implements, such as plow, disc, mower, and drill/planter to tractor. Till soil; plant, cultivate, fertilize, spray crops (general crop care). Tow harvesting equipment. Drive and operate self-propelled combine, cotton picker, and tobacco harvester. Drive and operate self-propelled sprayers. General maintenance, cleaning, lubrication, service (check fluids), and mechanical repair (including light welding) to farm machinery. Drive trucks/repurposed buses and semi's to transport crops to elevator or storage facility. Drive trucks/repurposed buses to transport water to sprayers. Operate forklift and loader to load/unload crops onto trucks.
Equipment: Tractors(various sizes and models), Implements(i.e. grain cart, buggies, mowers, cultivators, planters, tillage), Combine, Tobacco Harvester, Pickup Trucks, 2-Ton Trucks(Automatic and Manual Transmissions), Semi-Trucks and trailers, Cotton Picker, Self-propelled sprayers, Forklift/Loader.
Crops: Corn, Cotton, Soy Beans, Sweet Potatoes, Tobacco
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators