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Job Description

Full Time:

No

Number of Workers Requested:

2

Job Duties:

Required to be available 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and spend the majority of workdays on the range. All job duties are closely and directly related to the production of livestock. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the range during the winter season: attend to pregnant animals and newborn offspring in cold winter temperatures; identify animals that are preparing to give birth; ensure newly born offspring stand before cold, humid weather adversely affects their health; keep accurate record of newborns and ear tag for identification; detect direction from which wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep animals gathered and safe; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young offspring vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; report to employer dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in animals body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); herd livestock to appropriate grazing areas using winter trailing methods to avoid undue stress; prevent hypothermia/abortion/death, move animals at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; assist with branding and tagging and with the vaccination of animals by herding into corrals and/or stalls or manually restraining animals; may assist with repairing or building fence to contain or protect livestock, may assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and livestock handling facilities necessary to livestock production. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to livestock on the ranch during the winter season: attend to pregnant animals and newborn offspring in cold winter temperatures; identify animals that are preparing to give birth; ensure newly born offspring stand before cold, humid weather adversely affects their health; keep accurate record of newborns and ear tag for identification; detect direction from which wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep animals gathered and safe; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young offspring vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; report to rancher dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in animals body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); herd livestock to appropriate grazing areas using winter trailing methods to avoid undue stress; prevent hypothermia/abortion/death, move animals at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; assist with branding and tagging and with the vaccination of animals by herding into corrals and/or stalls or manually restraining animals; may assist with repairing or building fence to contain or protect livestock, may assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and livestock handling facilities necessary to livestock production.

Job Classification:

45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

6

Special Requirements:

May be required to ride and handle horses in a manner to assure the safety of the worker, co-workers, and livestock. Employee must be willing to: perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, and live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time and maintain and manage remote housing locations in a safe and responsible manner. The job may entail working with and around farm machinery such as tractors for supplemental feeding purposes and ATVs for movement of livestock, periodically. Employee will work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional exposure to herding hazards such as poisonous snakes and predators. 50 lb lifting and driving requirement is needed.

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

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Employer Information

Company Name:

Mike Kimsey

Location:

Manderson, WY 82432

Worksite

Address:

3890 Lane 50, Manderson, WY 82432

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-20233-779334

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Plus room and board

Date Posted:

8/26/2020

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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