Job Duties:
Job requires previous work experience with cattle and/or livestock, grazing and herding. Employees will be feeding, handling, and tending to livestock health measures and administering medicine if necessary; building and repairing property boarders; performing repairs around the shop and on equipment; grain, feed, and hay handling; moving cows; inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, buildings, pens, and yards; cleaning fence rows; and other various manual labor. Duties include operating various farm equipment necessary to livestock including, but not limited to, ATVs, chainsaws, grain and feed handling equipment, and livestock trailers. Job also requires tending to livestock in the forms of checking cattle multiple times a day, feeding and maintaining mineral feeders, examining, watering, vaccinating, working, and tagging cattle; calving cows and bred heifers, occasionally lifting and carrying newborn calves, weaning calves from cows; operating various equipment related to the care and including, but not limited to, tractors, mowers, non-CDL farm trucks, and balers. Job also requires performing general maintenance, repairs and/or clean-up of livestock related storage sheds, buildings, pens, and farm equipment; ensuring operational areas for livestock care are organized and well maintained; using hand tools and equipment to repair, clean and maintain farm vehicles, livestock related agricultural equipment; regularly servicing equipment related to the care of livestock; checking and repairing property boarders. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or engage in various general functions. The employer reserves the right to increase workers' pay or provide bonuses based on tenure, performance, or other factors that are solely based on the discretion of the employer.
Special Requirements:
Job requires having or being able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire. Basic English literacy skills are required. Job will require periods when workers may be exposed to varying weather conditions and extensive pushing, pulling, sitting, and walking.