Construction worker

Field Laborer/Equipment Operator in Healdsburg, CA

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: Bevill Vineyard Management, LLC
Where: Healdsburg, CA
Places: 160
Pay: $16.9 per hour
Visa: H-2A
Starts: 2027-01-04
Ends: 2027-10-31
Filed: 2026-11-04

What the work involves

Vineyard Laborer: Under close supervision of supervisors/foremen, perform relatively non-complex tasks using minimal discretion, working in wine grape vineyards. The job duties/description includes all aspects of vineyard related duties as listed below: A – STANDARD FARMING • Applying Fertilizer by Hand to Vines – Able to lift 50lbs. • Bank Stabilization of Vineyards using hand pick and shovel • Cane Cutting with hedge trimmers and pruning shears • Canopy Management – tuck canes • Carton/Tube Vines (Placement by hand) • Clearing/Breakdown Trellis using wire cutters • Clearing Brush in Vineyards using loppers and pruning shears • Cover/Uncover Heads (Vines) using shovel • Cut Dead Arms using loppers and hand saw • Erosion Control using shovel • Fence/Gate Repair & Maintenance in Vineyards using post hole digger and pliers (Less than 50% of workdays in contract) • Fruit Thinning with thinning shears • Hoeing in vine rows using hand hoe (5 ft.) and shovel • Install Drip System using shovel • Install Sprinkler System/New Vineyards using shovel • Install Vineyard Deer Fences using post hole digger and shovel (Less than 50% of workdays in contract) • Install Wires/New Vineyards using pliers and wire tensioner tool (Less than 50% of workdays in contract) • Leaf Removal • Make (Select) Budwood using pruning shears • Perimeter Maintenance of Vineyards using chain saws, weed eaters and loppers • Planting using shovels • Remove Diseased Vines using shovel • Replanting using shovel • Root Removal with repetitive bending down • Shoot Tipping with hedge trimmers and pruning shears • Staking using hand-held post pounder • Suckering • Tractor Driving (once training has been completed by certified trainer) • Training with pruning shears, ring knife and hand saw • Trellis Repair & Maintenance of vineyards using handheld post pounder and pliers • Trim Vines/Rootstock using pruning shears • Tying using ring knife and pruning shears • Weed Eating Vine Rows using gas-powered weed eater B – HARVEST • Caravan Equipment – moving equipment • Set Up to Pick (Hand or Machine harvest) • Picking – Hand • Driver/Checker • Sorting – Hand Crew • Sorter/Gondola • Loading Fruit / Forklift • Lighting / Operator • Tractor Driver / Gondola • Harvester Operator • Spotter • Harvester Clean-up See Addendum C

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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 $2,924 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