- 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. 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 irrigation equipment. Adjust, repair, and service 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. Drive trucks
to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers. Drive and operate farm machinery to plant, cultivate, harvest
and store grain crops. Attach farm implements, such as plow, disc and drill to tractor. Till soil; plant and
cultivate grain. Drive and operate self-propelled combine.
Crops: Barley, Canola, Lentils, Peas, Small Grain, Soy Beans
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators