- 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. 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. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and
closing full containers. 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.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators