- Full Time:
- Yes
- Number of Workers Requested:
- 4
- 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. 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, irrigation equipment and drain tile. Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. 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. Participate in the inspection, grading, sorting, storage, and post-harvest treatment of crops. Operate tractors, tractor-drawn machinery, and self-propelled machinery to plow, harrow and fertilize soil, or to plant, cultivate, spray and harvest crops. Load agricultural products into trucks, and drive trucks to market or storage facilities. Clean work areas, around the crop fields with particular attention to irrigation pivots used to water the crops and including debris removal from crop fields, around the irrigation pivots, and around the farm as needed for the health of the crops. Repair farm buildings, fences, and other structures. Place products in containers according to grade and mark grades on containers. Weigh products or estimate their weight, visually or by feel. Grade and sort products according to factors such as color, species, length, width, appearance, feel, smell, and quality to ensure correct processing and usage. Measure, weigh, count and stack products and materials. Record job duties that have been completed and duties that have yet to be completed.
Crops : Alfalfa, Corn, Potatoes, Small grain, Soybeans
- Job Classification:
- 45-2091.00 - Agricultural Equipment Operators