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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 “Orange Picker Machine Operator”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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