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Job Description

Drive and control farm equipment to till soil and to plant, cultivate, and harvest crops. May perform tasks, such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks, such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Job Details

The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 45-2091.00
The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 30,430.00
The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 14.00
Currently, there are 28,700 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Agricultural Equipment Operators”.

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Tasks for “Equipment Operator”

Operate towed machines such as seed drills or manure spreaders to plant, fertilize, dust, and spray crops.
Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
Load and unload crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transfer augers.
Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.
Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
Guide products on conveyors to regulate flow through machines, and to discard diseased or rotten products.
Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools.
Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
Drive trucks to haul crops, supplies, tools, or farm workers.
Load hoppers, containers, or conveyors to feed machines with products, using forklifts, transfer augers, suction gates, shovels, or pitchforks.
Spray fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
Weigh crop-filled containers, and record weights and other identifying information.
Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps.
Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.

Related Technology & Tools

Cargo trucks
Rotary tillers
All terrain vehicle ATV discs
Hammermills
Skid sprayers
Combine cylinders
3-point sprayers
Forage blowers
Seed hoppers
Power winches
Feed conveyors
Peanut dryers
Air drill seeders
Granular applicators
All terrain vehicle ATV rakes
Silage boxes
Ditchers
Min-till planters
Land rollers
Coulter drills
Skid steer post drivers
Hay tedders
Peanut dump carts
Swath turners
Fertilizer blenders
Hay bale trailers
Mower conditioners
Horizontal feed mixers
Stump grinders
Field cultivators
Seed bins
Land levelers
Backhoes
Tomato harvesters
Coulter rippers
Rock windrowers
Grain augers
Silage mills
Portable sprayers
Min-till drills
Roller packers
Hay balers
All terrain vehicles ATV
Skid steer rock grapples
Bed shapers
Manure separators
Crop shredders
Grass seeders
Combine headers
Subsoilers
Skid steer tree cutters
Self-propelled sprayers
Crop dividers
Hay bale spears
Compost turners
Manure injection systems
Bucket elevators
Coulter disks
Skid steer loaders
Garlic harvesters
Compact tractors
Liquid storage tanks
Track tractors
Hay bale accumulators
Sprayer booms
Tractor guidance systems
All terrain vehicle ATV post hole diggers
Hay bale conveyors
Rotary hay rakes
Hay conditioners
Haybines
Chaff spreaders
Batch grain dryers
Combine grain headers
Feed grinders
Weed wipes
Feed mixer wagons
Chisel plows
Hay bale unrollers
Soybean combine harvesters
Hay bale wrappers
Land finishers
Rotary hoes
Tandem disks
Post hole diggers
All terrain vehicle ATV plows
Forklifts
All terrain vehicle ATV seeders
Hay bale movers
Auger movers
Hay bale forks
Windrowers
Bedding hippers
Air seeders
Min-till cultivators
Threshers
2-point sprayers
Forage wagons
Skid steer post hole diggers
Shavings spreaders
Mist blowers
Transfer augers
Straw and chaff spreaders
Manure augers
Telehandlers
Hay bale shredders
Forage harvesters
Wheel loaders
All terrain vehicle ATV manure spreaders
All terrain vehicle ATV sprayers
Offset disks
Disk rippers
Plows
Skid steer rotary tillers
Silage feeders
Grass drills
Fertilizer spreaders
Silage bins
Grain heaters
Seed scales
Hay bale compressors
Seed dryers
Seed drills
Farm tractors
Seed tenders
Combine draper headers
Air reels
Silage wagons
Forage boxes
Lime spreaders
Peanut digger shakers
Crop lifters
Harrow baskets
Combine header transports
Pasture renovators
Forage tractors
Grain bin aeration fans
Hay bale loaders
Grain combines
All terrain vehicle ATV harrows
Seed strippers
Subcompact tractors
Grain pumps
Seed conveyors
Windrow inverters
Air carts
V hay rakes
Field rollers
Novariant AutoFarm RTK AutoSteer
Hay bale feeders
Peanut digger inverters
Grain vacuums
Tower grain dryers
Post drivers
Flat-ended shovels
Grain drills
Auger wagons
Silage baggers
Silage wrappers
Skid steer post pullers
Manure chopper pumps
Dry bulk storage tanks
Manure scrapers
Gravity wagons
Continuous flow grain dryers
Silage distributors
Hay bale stackers
Silo spreaders
Chisel disks
Land scrapers
Grain wagons
Hay bale elevators
Header carriers
Sprayer chassis
Manure spreaders
Skid steer hay bale spears
Row crop cultivators
Land planes
Liquid ferilizer applicators
Manure storage tanks
Nurse tanks
Seed vacuums
Peanut harvesters
Utility vehicles
Flotation sprayers
Seed mixers
Litter spreaders
Peanut diggers

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