Job Description

Full Time:

No

Number of Workers Requested:

8

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 calving season: attend to pregnant cows and newborn offspring in cold winter temperatures; identify cows that are preparing to give birth; ensure newly born calves stand before cold, humid weather adversely affects their health; keep accurate record of new calves born and ear tag for identification; detect direction from which wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep cows gathered and safe; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young calves vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; assist with annual hoof trimming to reduce the occurrence of disease; report to rancher dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in cows' 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 on cows; prevent hypothermia/abortion/death, move cows at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; assist with semen testing bulls, branding and tagging calves and with the vaccination of cattle 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 calving season: attend to pregnant cows and newborn offspring in cold winter temperatures; identify cows that are preparing to give birth; ensure newly born calves stand before cold, humid weather adversely affects their health; keep accurate record of new calves born and ear tag for identification; detect direction from which wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep cows gathered and safe; intensely monitor and treat both mother and young calves vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; assist with annual hoof trimming to reduce the occurrence of disease; report to rancher dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in cows' body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); assist with semen testing bulls, branding and tagging calves and with the vaccination of cattle 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:

Robben Cattle Company, LLC

Location:

Dixon, CO 95620

Telephone Number:

+17076789430

Worksite

Address:

6455 Robben Rd., Dixon, CA 95620

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-20233-779633

Multiple Worksites:

No

Additional Wage Information:

Plus room and board

Date Posted:

8/28/2020

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