ag equipment operator

Worker will be required to perform a variety of duties found in SOC Code 45-2091 Agricultural Equipment Operator such as: Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions; Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery for cultivating, planting, spraying, watering, harvesting, moving, storing crops; Operate or tend large, high horsepower farm equipment (much of which is equipped with GPS) used i n agricultural production such as tractor, combine, sprayer, planter, grain cart, tillage tool to produce crops such as rice, cotton, soybeans, wheat; Adjust farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions; Drive truck to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farmworkers; Level land; Irrigate soil and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps; Assess crop maturity and field conditions.