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Overview
Land-based machinery operators use specialised farm and landscape machines for production, harvest, loading, unloading and maintenance work on land.
In job descriptions, look for agricultural machinery, crop harvesting, equipment transport, written instructions, mechanical tools, road traffic laws, plant characteristics, customer contact and work in a land-based team.
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Open in Job ExplorerWhat the work can involve
Land-based machinery operators work around fields, yards, tracks and landscaped areas where machines must match crop, soil and weather conditions. Tasks can include operating agricultural machinery, loading equipment and harvesting crops.
Skills and specialization
Important skill areas are machine handling, mechanical tools, written instructions, road traffic laws and recognising plant characteristics. Customer contact may appear when work is done for farms, contractors or landscape clients.
Salary context
Pay context depends on machine size, seasonal pressure, road travel, crop value, maintenance responsibility and whether the operator handles only driving or also planning, loading and basic repair.
Career paths
Experience can lead from single-machine operation to harvest coordination, machinery maintenance, team lead duties, contractor scheduling or more specialised equipment for crops or landscape work.
Good to know
Read adverts for named machines, crop types, working season, transport duties and safety routines. A useful advert explains whether the role is farm production, landscape maintenance or mixed contractor work.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial occupation context, not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
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O*NET relationships
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O*NET relationships: 2
Agricultural Equipment Operators
45-2091.00
Exact relationship
The official mapping treats the O*NET and ESCO occupations as closely equivalent.
Open in O*NETLandscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
37-3011.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
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Alternative labels
Occupation group
Mobile farm and forestry plant operators (8341)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/1b8c75a9-407b-4554-a7d6-df391672c6b1 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 8341.2 |
| ISCO group | 8341 |
| Concept type | Occupation |