Land-based machinery supervisors plan and organise land-based machinery services for agricultural production and landscaping in close cooperation with their clients.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose farm machinery to plough land and sow, fertilize, cultivate and harvest crops;
(b) 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;
(c) Preparing and positioning plant for operation;
(d) Adjusting speed, height and depth of implements;
(e) Operating plant to hold, lift and cut trees;
(f) Operating attachments to lift, swing, release and sort trees and logs, and operating auxiliary plant such as chipping machines and log splitting machines;
(g) Feeding felled trees into processors to strip limbs and cut into logs and loading logs onto stockpiles and into trucks;
(h) Servicing machinery and performing minor repairs.