- 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. 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. Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers. 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