Agricultural Equipment Operator Resume Template
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- Plant, spray and harvest 7,200 acres of corn and soybeans with a crew of 5 operators.
- Run a 24-row planter on RTK AutoTrac with variable-rate seeding maps from the agronomist.
- Apply herbicide and fungicide to 14,000 acres a year with no drift complaints or label violations.
- Harvest up to 1,100 acres a week in a Class 8 combine, keeping grain loss under 1 bushel per acre.
- Handle daily service and field repairs, keeping equipment downtime under 2% at planting and harvest.
- Operated tractors, planters, grain carts and self-propelled sprayers on 4,500 irrigated acres.
- Set up and calibrated John Deere and Trimble displays, guidance lines and section control.
- Hauled grain to elevators in a semi, delivering 300+ loads a harvest with scale tickets logged.
- Serviced center-pivot irrigation systems and reported repairs during the growing season.
- Ran tillage, cart and baling equipment on a 1,200-acre family corn, soybean and cattle operation.
- Greased, fueled and cleaned machinery daily and helped with winter overhauls.
Names, employers and dates on the sample are invented. Duties and software come from O*NET 31.0; credentials were checked against the sources listed below.
Licenses and certifications
- Pesticide Applicator Certification State Department of Agriculture Optional, valued by employers
Sources: www.epa.gov, www.bls.gov
Licensing rules differ by state; check with your state board before you apply.
Skills to list
- Tractor Operation
- Combine Harvesting
- GPS-Guided Equipment
- Irrigation Systems
- Equipment Maintenance
- Pesticide Application
- Planting Equipment
- Crop Monitoring
Software and tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Access
- Farm Management Software Hay and Crop Manager
- John Deere Operations Center
- Climate FieldView
Duties to describe on a agricultural equipment operator resume
- Loaded and unloaded crops or containers of materials, manually or using conveyors, handtrucks, forklifts, or transferred augers.
- Mixed specified materials or chemicals, and dumped solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery.
- Sprayed fertilizer or pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers.
- Observed and listened to machinery operation to detect equipment malfunctions.
- Manipulated controls to set, activate, and adjust mechanisms on machinery.
- Operated or tended equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment.
Titles along the way
- Equipment Operator
- Senior Equipment Operator
- Field Operations Supervisor
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