How do they match: Agricultural Equipment Operators

  • Mechanic

  • Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions.
  • Manipulate controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
  • Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
  • Observe and listen to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
  • Position boxes or attach bags at discharge ends of machinery to catch products, removing and closing full containers.
  • Walk beside or ride on planting machines while inserting plants in planter mechanisms at specified intervals.

  • Operate conveyors or other industrial material moving equipment.