- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 4
- 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 and combines. 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. Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information. 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.
Crops: Corn, Soy Beans
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators