Mobile farm and forestry plant operators

Mobile farm and forestry plant operators drive, tend, operate and monitor one or more types of special- purpose motorised, mobile machinery or equipment used in agricultural, horticultural and forestry operations.

Job Responsibilities

• Driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose farm machinery to plough land and sow, fertilize, cultivate and harvest crops
• Driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose forestry machinery to clear land, plant, harvest and carry trees and timber or perform other forestry operations
• Preparing and positioning plant for operation
• Adjusting speed, height and depth of implements
• Operating plant to hold, lift and cut trees
• Operating attachments to lift, swing, release and sort trees and logs, and operating auxiliary plant such as chipping machines and log splitting machines
• Feeding felled trees into processors to strip limbs and cut into logs and loading logs onto stockpiles and into trucks
• Servicing machinery and performing minor repairs