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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 “Fruit Harvest Machine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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