How do they match: Agricultural Equipment Operators

  • Elevator Worker
  • Farm Worker
  • Hop Worker
  • Irrigation Worker

  • Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. 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.

  • Direct and monitor the activities of work crews engaged in planting, weeding, or harvesting activities.
  • 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.
  • Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
  • Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.

  • Load materials into equipment for processing.
  • Operate conveyors or other industrial material moving equipment.
  • Prepare materials or solutions for animal or plant use.