Livestock Worker/Ranch hand

Skill Level 1

• Animal Care & Health: Feed and water livestock, monitor supplies, and maintain heated watering systems (including removing ice). Examine animals regularly to detect illness, injury, disease, or physical trends like weight gain. Administer medications and vaccinations, arrange veterinary care when necessary, and assist with livestock reproduction, artificial insemination, and animal births.

• Herd Management: Mark livestock for identification using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos. Segregate animals by weight, age, color, breed, and physical condition. Rotate livestock between grazing and feed areas, shift animals to stalls as needed, and patrol grazing lands, small lots, and barns on foot or via ATVs.

• Facilities & Equipment Maintenance: Inspect, clean, and maintain equipment, structures, pens, yards, and stalls using disinfectants, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and pumps. Notify management when feed, hay, bedding, or other supplies run low.

• Operations & Machinery: Operate feed mix wagons and tractors to distribute hay and silage to feeding areas. Load manure and spread it across fields. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in precise prescribed portions. Assist in transporting livestock and moving equipment using trucks and trailers.

Livestock: Beef and Cattle

General Conditions: If work is available beyond normal workdays, employer may offer, but not require, worker an opportunity to work additional hours. Workers will report to work at designated time and place as directed by assigned employer each day. workers may be requested to ten (10) hours per day depending on conditions in fields and the maturity of the crops. Also, workers may be requested to work on federal holidays and their Sabbath but will not be required. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Down time: Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew / rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions which include light rain and temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to more than 100 degrees. Workers should be able to stand, bend, stoop and work for prolonged periods of time and be physically fit to perform duties as assigned. Care must always be exercised with any use of equipment.

Requirements: Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.