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Agricultural Equipment Operators
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 8
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 36
- Wage: 16.16 USD / Hour
- Start date: 05/26/2025
- End date: 11/26/2025
- Process date: 04/07/2025 16:42:03
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Workers will perform assign duties as instructed by their supervisor. Workers will operate equipment used to watermelon crops. Must have the correct type of license required by State and Federals laws, and drivers responsible for transporting workers will be required to have a valid and unexpired Federal Farm Labor Contractor or Federal Farm Labor Contractor Employee Registration with driving authorization. Will be responsible for operating the vehicles used to move crops on the farm. Must be able to safely operate the buses that are used to transport workers to and from work sites. Operate forklifts and equipment used to move supplies and harvesting equipment in the field. Maintain harvest equipment. Must be able to reach, bend and lift items weighing 100 pounds. The alternative work if needed will be to assist with the manual planting, harvesting, and general maintenance of the crops. Tobacco: Setting: When setting tobacco by machine: the setter/transplanter must be loaded with plant trays. The worker must drop one plant in each cone repeatedly without missing a cone. Setting by hand, any cone missed will be then set out by hand by workers walking behind. These workers will carry trays of tobacco plant, they will place one plant in the missing space by making a hole and place the plant in the hole. At the end of the day workers will need to clean up the area. Resetting: workers will reset plants that have died or are missing in the same manner as stated above, setting by hand. At the end of the day workers will need to clean up the area. Chopping and/or pulling weeds: Workers will work across a field removing weeds either with a hoe or by hand, being sure to remove it by the roots. At the end of the day workers will need to clean up the area. Setting up plants; In the event of a wind storm plants may need to be set upright. This will be done by working your way down a row, gently pushing the plant upright and by using your foot apply dirt at the base of the plant to set it straight. At the end of the day workers will need to clean up the area. Topping and suckering: Workers will start in a row with the first tobacco plant breaking off the top flower by hand properly without damaging leafs below. The worker must then use both hands in order to remove all the suckers that are in between the tobacco leaf and the stem of the tobacco plant. The worker will walk down his designated row working on every tobacco plant. At the end of the day workers will need to clean up the area.