Agriculture, Food Industry

Agricultural Equipment Operator

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Description of job position

Operating or tending equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Observing and listening to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Attaching farm implements such as plows discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Driveling trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Adjusting, repairing, and servicing farm machinery and notifying supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operating towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Loading hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spraying fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mixing specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Irrigating soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintaining ditches or pipes and pumps.
Directing and monitoring the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Loading and unloading crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Weighing crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.