agricultural equipment operator

Job duties include but are not limited to:

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.

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, combines and

irrigation equipment.

Maintain 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.

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.

Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines and to discard diseased or

rotten products. Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, moving

and closing full containers.

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.

Till soil; plant and cultivate grain.

Tow harvesting equipment

Drive and operate self propelled combine.

Crops: Corn, Soy Beans, Spring Wheat