land-based machinery operator
ISCO: 8341. Skills: 33. Essential: 14.
Essential skills
- drive agricultural machines
- follow written instructions
- handling chemical products for soil and plants
- harvest crop
- herbicides
- identify plants characteristics
- mechanical tools
- operate agricultural machinery
- pesticides
- plant disease control
- road traffic laws
- spread fertiliser
- tow a tractor implement using the power take-off
- work in a land-based team
Supporting skills
- address problems critically
- agronomy
- apply precision farming
- communicate with customers
- create solutions to problems
- environmental policy
- fertilisation principles
- fertiliser products
- irrigate soil
- load equipment
- maintain mechanical equipment
- make independent operating decisions
- operate GPS systems
- operate landscaping equipment
- perform loading and unloading operations
- prepare equipment for harvest
- unload equipment
- use different communication channels
- variety of botanicals