Agricultural Equipment Operator

Description of the 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.