Transport
Farm machinery operator
Key facts
This job is hiring in the United States; its exposure to AI is low. AI exposure: very low according to the ILO, low according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: −0.2% (BLS).
The job
Mobile farm and forestry plant operators (ISCO 8341). Mobile farm and forestry plant operators drive, tend, operate and monitor one or more types of special-purpose motorized mobile machinery or equipment used in agricultural, horticultural and forestry operations.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
33 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- agricultural equipment operator
- agricultural equipment supervisor
- agricultural machinery operator
- agricultural machinery supervisor
- brushing machines
- chainsaw operator
- combined driver
- combined driver supervisor
- excavators for site preparation or stump removal
- farm equipment operator
- farm equipment supervisor
- farm machinery supervisor
- forest tractor driver
- forestry equipment operator
- forestry equipment operators
- forestry tractor driver
- land-based machinery operator
- land-based machinery operators
- land-based machinery supervisor
- land-based machinery supervisors
- landbased machinery operator
- landbased machinery supervisor
- logger
- logging equipment operator
- lumberjack
- mobile sawmill operator
- planting machinery
- site preparation machinery
- tractor driver
- tractor driver supervisor
- woodcutter
- woodland equipment operator
- woodman
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.