Driver, agricultural machinery

Mobile farm and forestry plant operators drive, tend, control and monitor motorised equipment designed specifically for agriculture and forestry.

• driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled specialised agricultural machinery for ploughing, sowing, fertilising, cultivating and harvesting;
• driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled specialised forestry machinery for clearing land, planting, harvesting, hauling logs and timber or carrying out other forestry operations;
• preparing and positioning equipment for work;
• adjusting the speed, height and depth of operation;
• operating equipment for supporting, lifting and cutting trees;
• operating devices for lifting, binding, separating and sorting trees and logs, and devices for delimbing and splitting logs;
• feeding trees into machines for debarking, delimbing, cutting logs, stacking and loading trucks;
• servicing machines and making minor repairs.
• Examples of occupations in this unit group:
• Driver, agricultural machinery
• Tractor driver
• Operator, forestry machinery
• Operator, motorised forestry equipment
• Operator, agricultural machinery
• Operator, cutting-unstacking-sorting machine