- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 3
- 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. Operate custom planting equipment for custom planting on farms.
Operate combine harvesters to assist with the harvesting of grain or oil-seed crops. 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, ag drones 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. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers. Load or
unload trucks or help others with loading or unloading, using special loading-related equipment or
other equipment as necessary.
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators