Farm and agricultural worker

Agricultural Equipment Operator in Deming, NM

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: Mimbres Ranch, LLC
Where: Deming, NM
Places: 11
Pay: $12.35 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2027-01-10
Ends: 2027-11-09
Filed: 2026-10-30

What the work involves

Operate or tend equipment used in agricultural production, such as tractors, combines, and irrigation equipment. Adjust, repair, and service farm machinery and notify supervisors when machinery malfunctions. Attach farm implements such as plows, discs, sprayers, or harvesters to tractors, using bolts and hand tools. Mix specified materials or chemicals, and dump solutions, powders, or seeds into planter or sprayer machinery. Spray fertilizer or aid in application of pesticide solutions to control insects, fungus and weed growth, and diseases, using hand sprayers. Observe and listen to machinery operations to detect equipment malfunctions. Operate farm equipment to plant, fertilize, move workers, dust, and aid in the application to spray crops to haul crops, supplies, tools, spread manure, and to bring crops and workers out of fields. Irrigate soil, using portable pipes or ditch systems, and maintain ditches or pipes and pumps. Assist in onion, grass, chile, and lettuce harvest, driving a bin bandit or tractor. Fixing leaks at farm fields, working on irrigation system, hoeing weeds pre/during/after harvest for onions, grass, chile & lettuce; picking lettuce/chile during season, cutting onion tops, driving bin bandit, servicing equipment, driving tractor and working on the drip lines.

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.

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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 $2,137 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