- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 2
- Job Duties:
- Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, 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 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. Direct
and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities. Weigh
crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information. 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.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators