- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 1
- Job Duties:
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, hand trucks, forklifts, or
transfer augers. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or
sprayer machinery. Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and
diseases, using hand sprayers. 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. Weigh
crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information. Walk beside or ride on planting
machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals. Drive trucks to haul crops,
supplies, tools, or farm workers. Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to
discard diseased or rotten products. Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches
or pipes and pumps. 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. Tow
harvesting equipment. Drive and operate self-propelled combine.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators