Agricultural Mobile Plant (Equipment) Operator
OFO Code: 734101
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 734101
- Occupation
- Agricultural Mobile Plant (Equipment) Operator
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- PLANT AND MACHINE OPERATORS AND ASSEMBLERS
- Unit group
- 7341 · Mobile Farm and Forestry Plant Operators
Official 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.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Agrichemical Spraying / Dusting Operator, Agricultural Mobile Equipment Operator, Agricultural Machine and Equipment Operator, Harvester Operator, Tractor Driver, Rotary Hoe Operator, Chemical Applicator, Farm Equipment / Machinery Operator, Cotton Picking Machine Operator
- 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
- Operating attachments to lift, swing, release and sort trees and logs, and operating auxiliary plant such as chipping machines and log splitting machines
- Servicing machinery and performing minor repairs
- Feeding felled trees into processors to strip limbs and cut into logs and loading logs onto stockpiles and into trucks
- Preparing and positioning plant for operation
- Operating plant to hold, lift and cut trees
- Adjusting speed, height and depth of implements
- Driving and tending tractor-drawn or self-propelled special-purpose farm machinery to plough land and sow, fertilize, cultivate and harvest crops
2. Demand status
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
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