Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Fill sprayer tanks with water and chemicals, according to formulas.
• Mix pesticides, herbicides, or fungicides for application to trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops.
• Cover areas to specified depths with pesticides, applying knowledge of weather conditions, droplet sizes, elevation-to-distance ratios, and obstructions.
• Lift, push, and swing nozzles, hoses, and tubes to direct spray over designated areas.
• Start motors and engage machinery, such as sprayer agitators or pumps or portable spray equipment.
• Connect hoses and nozzles selected according to terrain, distribution pattern requirements, types of infestations, and velocities.
• Clean or service machinery to ensure operating efficiency, using water, gasoline, lubricants, or hand tools.
• Identify lawn or plant diseases to determine the appropriate course of treatment.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Provide driving instructions to truck drivers to ensure complete coverage of designated areas, using hand and horn signals.
• Plant grass with seed spreaders, and operate straw blowers to cover seeded areas with mixtures of asphalt and straw.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)