Agricultural Equipment Operators

responsibilities

• 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, 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.
• direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
• operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
• weigh crop-filled containers and record weights and other identifying information.
• drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
• 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.
• work with: beans, corn, grain, horseradish.

legally authorized to work in the united states. We do not sponsor visas or consider applications from candidates outside the u.s.

solo para trabajadores estado unidos legalmente autorizados para trabajar en los estados unidos. No patrocinamos visas ni consideramos solicitudes de candidatos fuera de los ee. Uu.