Will “Pest Technician” be Automated?

Core Skills & Abilities

• Mix pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides for application to trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops.

• Provide driving instructions to truck drivers to ensure complete coverage of designated areas, using hand and horn signals.

• Fill sprayer tanks with water and chemicals, according to formulas.

• Clean or service machinery to ensure operating efficiency, using water, gasoline, lubricants, or hand tools.

• Plant grass with seed spreaders, and operate straw blowers to cover seeded areas with mixtures of asphalt and straw.

• Start motors and engage machinery, such as sprayer agitators or pumps or portable spray equipment.

• Identify lawn or plant diseases to determine the appropriate course of treatment.

• Lift, push, and swing nozzles, hoses, and tubes to direct spray over designated areas.

• Connect hoses and nozzles selected according to terrain, distribution pattern requirements, types of infestations, and velocities.

• Cover areas to specified depths with pesticides, applying knowledge of weather conditions, droplet sizes, elevation-to-distance ratios, and obstructions.