Agricultural Equipment Operator



Skills:
  • Operation and Control
  • Operation Monitoring
  • Troubleshooting
  • Active Listening
  • Equipment Maintenance

Tasks:
  • Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, 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.

Tools used:
  • Container trailers
  • Fertilizer spreaders or distributors
  • Harvesters
  • Haymaking machinery
  • Sprayers

Knowledge:
  • Entry1
  • Entry2

Abilities:
  • Control Precision
  • Multilimb Coordination
  • Near Vision
  • Depth Perception
  • Far Vision