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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”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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