Agricultural, Forestry and Horticultural Plant Operators

Key Tasks

• •Preparing and positioning plant for operation
• •Operating tractor-drawn and self-propelled plant to plough land and sow, fertilise, cultivate and harvest crops, and avoid damaging crops
• •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
• •Keeping log tallies and writing work reports
• •Servicing plant and performing minor repairs

Employment Projections to 2035