8341-Mobile farm and forestry plant operators

Job Title: 

Mobile farm and forestry plant operators

Job Description: 

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.

Tasks: 

Tasks include

  • 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.
Specific Occupations: 

83411
Driver (tractor/ lumber carrier/ timber carrier)

83412
Operator (agricultural machinery/ baler (farm)/ combiner (agricultural)/ harvester/ motorised farm equipment/ thresher)

83413
Operator ( forestry machinery/motorized equipment)

83414
Operator, logging plant

83415
Operator, tree faller

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Source Of Info: 

Source: Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, PSCO-2410