- 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. 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. Tow harvesting equipment. Drive and operate self-propelled
combine. General facility upkeep and maintenance. Workers need to be computer savvy as our
tractors use GPS systems and other various monitoring systems.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators