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Agricultural Equipment Operator
- Country: United States
- Visa type: H-2A
- Job ID: (Open on offer list)
- Employer name: Confidential
- Employees needed: 60
- E-mail (employer): Confidential
- E-mail (agent): Confidential
- Phone: Confidential
- Agent phone: Confidential
- Working hours per week: 39
- Wage: 17.13 USD / Hour
- OFLC Certification: ACCEPTED - PENDING RECRUITMENT
- Start date: 02/22/2026
- End date: 11/05/2026
- Process date: 12/29/2025 21:00:00
- Submit date: Confidential
- Offer description:
Multiple contract dates available. Alternative start date(s) include: 03/02/2026 (13 workers). The exact start date and/or number of workers may vary based on weather, crop conditions or other factors. Crops/Commodities: wine grapes, vegetables, rotation crops, almond trees, and hazelnuts. Tractor Operator (Vineyard, almonds, and farm): Workers must have a minimum of two (2) months of prior tractor operating experience. Workers will be responsible for all tractor operations, including the safe and proper operation of our fleet that includes but not limited to: specialty grape vineyard tractors, Pellenc grape vineyard harvesters, row crop tractors, ground working tractors and specialty row crop harvesters. Operators are responsible for daily tractor inspections and maintenance. Operators are also responsible to install and remove tractor implements and make minor repairs on tractors. Repair and maintain farm vehicles, implements, and mechanical equipment. Servicing, repairing, adjusting, and testing machines, devices, moving parts, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of mechanical (not electronic) principles. Must have experience driving Pellenc Tractors, or must have experience driving John Deer tractors that are used for Cultivating, Planting, and Harvesting. Must also have experinece operating the harvesting implement attached to Pellenc or John Deer Tractors. When hired, workers will need to perform and pass a basic skills test demonstrating the necessary experience operating a Pellenc or John Deere Tractor for safety purposes. Vineyard Jobs: Vineyard Planting: Under the direction of a supervisor, workers will plant new vineyards. This may include, but is not limited to, working in the Nursery to gather young vines. Digging a hole, by machine or hand tools, and placing a vine in the hole and covering the hole with dirt by use of a machine or hand tools. By use or a machine or hand tools, workers will need to develop the Trellis. The includes, but is not limited to: Placing wood end posts in the ground. Placing metal inside posts in between vines. Spooling out and attaching wire to the Trellis. Rolling out and installing irrigation systems. Wire Moving: Workers must be able and willing to work to maintain vine trellises by moving wire, maintain and repair structures/grounds, maintenance of above ground trellising, maintenance of existing trellising, may include tying vine to trellis at any of the listed grape vineyard locations (worksite location may frequently change based on the needs of the grape vines), and workers must be able and willing to work on weekends as needed for proper viticultural health of the grape vines. Must be able to safely and repeatedly lift 50 pounds to a height of up to 66 inches (5.5 feet). Additional Vineyard duties may include Grafting and Vineyard Removal using, but limited to, backhoe and/or mini excavator. Farm Jobs: Hand Weeding: Under the direction of a supervisor, workers are required to spot all weeds around crops and in between seed lines and use their hands to completely remove all these weeds (including their roots) from the soil. Workers may be asked to place weeds in a specific spot in the field or to remove them completely from the field using a bucket or other device to haul them as instructed by field supervisor. Workers must often crouch, crawl, sit or kneel and then move along to remove weeds for extended periods of time. Must be able to see and completely remove weeds that are small (size of a thick piece of hair). Must be in possession of the requisite strength and endurance and tenacity to focus on the quality of work and perform in such a way that each area worked is completely free of viable weeds when the task is complete without the need for re working that area. Must be able to carry up to 20 pounds for long periods of time.