Farm and agricultural worker

Agricultural Equipment Operator in Elizabeth, Illinois

This is an H-2A job order, which means the employer has already applied to hire workers from outside the United States for it.

Employer: Primary Contractors Inc
Where: Elizabeth, Illinois
Places: 1
Pay: $18.75 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2026-09-07
Ends: 2026-12-31
Filed: 2026-07-14

What the work involves

We need a seasonal employee to assist with the production of corn, wheat, oats, and soybean crops. The employee will perform all duties associated with the planting, cultivation, maintenance, harvest, and post-harvest handling of these crops. Duties include preparing fields and soil for planting; attaching and operating farm implements and equipment, including tractors, planters, sprayers, seed drills, manure spreaders, combines, irrigation equipment, forklifts, and other agricultural machinery; planting, transplanting, cultivating, irrigating, fertilizing, spraying, weeding, pruning, and harvesting crops; applying fertilizers and pesticides to control weeds, insects, fungi, and diseases; maintaining irrigation systems, ditches, pipes, and pumps; loading, unloading, hauling, and transporting crops, supplies, and materials using conveyors, augers, forklifts, hand tools, and farm semi-trucks; inspecting, grading, sorting, storing, packing, labeling, and preparing harvested crops for shipment; monitoring crop quality, identifying pests and diseases, maintaining production and pesticide application records, and participating in post-harvest treatment activities. Additional duties include inspecting, adjusting, troubleshooting, repairing, and performing routine maintenance on farm machinery, vehicles, buildings, fences, and other farm structures; maintaining inventory of equipment, materials, and supplies; keeping operational and production records; cleaning and maintaining work areas, equipment, facilities, and farm grounds; and performing all other tasks related to the seasonal production of the employer's crops as assigned. Employer may provide pay increases for performance, longevity and/or experience at employer's discretion, Employer may provide performance bonuses at the end of the contract at the employer's discretion.

How to apply

Apply directly with the employer named above. Workmerica is not an agency, takes no fee and is not involved in this hiring.

Open the original job order

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Seasonal Jobs.

What that comes to in a month

At forty hours a week, the rate in this filing works out at about $3,244 a month before tax. That is the standard full-time month of 173 hours; overtime, deductions and the cost of getting there are not in it.

How the work permit works in the United States

Employer-sponsored temporary or permanent labor certification. The employer files with the Department of Labor first. Which programme applies depends on the work and whether it is seasonal.

Published by U.S. Department of Labor, foreign labor certification