Agricultural Equipment Operators
United States Sugar Corporation (AEO)
📍 South Bay, FL · Palm Beach County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26196-099948
- 📞 Phone: +1 (863) 902-2329
- ✉️ Email: idelgado@ussugar.com
Employer instructions
Workers are screened for compliance with the following criteria: a) confirmability, availability, qualifications, and willingness to perform work described and confirm the intention to work the entire season; b) local workers confirm availability and reliable daily transportation to and from the job site for the entire season. Nonlocal workers confirm availability of transportation to the job site to begin work; c) confirmation of full disclosure of all terms, conditions, and nature of work; d) confirmation of legal qualifications to work in the US. The employer may terminate the worker (foreign and/or domestic) with notification to the employment service if the employer discovers a criminal conviction record or status as a registered sex offender that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers.
All referrals are encouraged to contact their nearest career center for pre-employment screening before contacting employer. All referrals are to be made to Ismael Delgado at 211 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Clewiston, FL 33440 Telephone: 863- 902-3229. Collect calls will not be accepted. Walk-in applicants will be accepted from 8 AM- 11:30 AM. The office hours are Monday thru Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. All local intrastate applicants may apply directly to the employer. All interstate applicants are encouraged but not required to first contact the nearest [one-stop] career center prior to contacting the employer for any updated information regarding the job prior to referral. For referrals from beyond normal commuting distance, an application may be sent to the employer, or a telephone interview may be requested. The employer will contact all applicants who have submitted an application by phone to conduct an interview.
Prior to referral, each worker should either read or have read to them a copy of the Job Offer and that they understand all terms and conditions of employment as noted in the order. All workers should also be advised that they will be expected to work for the total period of employment as noted in the Job Offer and should be available to work in any one of the listed job activities at the discretion of the employer and workers must have transportation to the designated pickup location.
All hired referred and walk-In applicants will be required to submit original documents of identity and employment eligibility sufficient to complete the I-9 Form within 3 days of employment. All workers from within normal commuting distance recruited against this Job Order will not be provided housing and transportation workers (U.S. and foreign H-2A), employed in the occupation described in this job order.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Agricultural Equipment Operators (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26196-099948
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Workers must be able to perform all work activities with accuracy and efficiency while working on sugarcane farms, handling manual/machine tasks associated with production and harvest activities. Weekend work required. Workers will perform assigned duties as instructed by their supervisor. Duties may vary from time to time.
The Agricultural Equipment Operator essential work activity involves loading and transport of the highly perishable sugarcane crop using farm tractor and wagons. Once the raw sugarcane crop is cut, meaning the sugarcane stalks are severed from their roots by a self-powered mechanical harvesting machine, the sugarcane is mechanically deposited into the field cart that is moved by the equipment operator to a location on the farm for loading. The operator is not hauling the harvested sugarcane off the farm. The worker will be moving it by a tractor to a location for loading after the sugarcane has been cut mechanically. The Agricultural Equipment Operator will transport the harvested sugarcane from the growing field to a location within the same field or to another close-by location on the farmer's land that is a concentration point wherein-the sugarcane is then loaded onto railcars for transportation by locomotive to a sugar mill. Once arriving at the closest available concentration point, the operator must see to the safe loading of the sugarcane into a railcar. There are multiple elevator rail loading stations on its property that serve as concentration points.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | Not required |
| Other requirements | Driver's license required Lifting up to 60 lb Drug test |
Employer will conduct paid post-hire drug and alcohol testing required. Employer reserves the right to also perform periodic Random, Reasonable Cause & Post-Accident Testing. In result of a positive test, the worker will be immediately terminated and sent home. The worker will be paid for all hours, if any, worked between the first date of employment and the date of termination.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 5:00 A.M. – 3:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Weekly |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Clewiston, Fl) |
| Housing | Southern Village Employer owned housing. Family housing is not available and the provision of family housing is not a prevailing practice in the area of intended employment. Co-ed housing is not offered; all female workers will be housed with other females and all male workers will be housed with other males. Laundry service provided at no cost to the worker. |
| Meals | The employer will provide free convenient cooking and kitchen facilities with free weekly transportation to the grocery store which enable workers to prepare their own meals. |
| Daily transportation | The employer will provide daily transportation to the place of employment, and weekly transportation to a grocery store, and laundry services once a week per employer schedule to allow the workers to obtain necessities, unless the workers requested to use their own vehicle or transportation to and from a laundry facility, and food store, utilizing twenty-three employer-owned 15-passenger buses. See Addendum C |
| Travel to the job | Inbound: Workers will determine their own inbound travel arrangements to the place of employment to begin the job contract. If the workers are coming from Mexico, the employer will provide and pay for a charter bus service from the consulate city to the place of employment for workers. See Addendum C |
| Pay deductions | The employer will make the following deductions: FICA taxes, income tax, cash advances, overpayment of wages; and charges for any loss to the employer due to the worker's damage or loss of equipment or housing items where it is shown that the worker is responsible, any other deductions expressly authorized by the worker in writing. There will be no deductions of state income tax. If a worker works seven consecutive days in a paid period without a day off (he/she will get the seventh day (only) calculated as time /half ). Paystub will be provided electronically. |
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| Case number | JO-A-300-26196-099948 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Agricultural Equipment Operators (45-2091.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Florida Fruit & Vegetable Association |
| Posted | Jul 28, 2026 |