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Job Description

Full Time:

Yes

Number of Workers Requested:

4

Job Duties:

Feed and water livestock and monitor food and water supplies. Drive trucks, tractors, and other equipment to distribute feed to animals. Examine animals to detect illness, injury or disease, and to check physical characteristic, such as rate of weight gain. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed portions, Inspect, maintain and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences. Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or using trucks or 4 wheelers. Clean pens, and equipment using disinfectant solutions, brushes, shovels, water hoses, and/or pumps. Herd livestock to pastures for grazing or to scales, trucks or other enclosures. May be required to separate/sort livestock according to size and weight. Workers may be required to apply ID tags. Attend to ranch animals that may include cattle, horses and other animals. Workers may be required to ride horses while doing job duties. Duties may include feeding mixing feed, watering, herding, grazing, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Hay/Straw: Workers will plant, cultivate, and harvest hay and straw. Workers must load hay bales weighing up to 60 lbs. from farm to tractor-trailers via a conveyor. Stack hay on conveyor and restack in trailer according to instructions. Hay harvested is dropped at end of conveyor. Using hay hooks, worker places bales on conveyor while other workers in the barn stack hay in hay/mow according to direction. Hay and straw harvested averages about 2500 bales per day. Cleans plows, combines, and tractors using scraper and broom. Workers must be able to work in a bent over position for long periods of time, clearing property, caring wire, posts, and hand hook long distances across rough terrain. Worker must be able to climb ladders and fence. Worker will use hand tools to maintain the calving area that is used during birthing process. Clear off farmland to increase planting acreage during spring planting season. Farm Equipment Operation During Field Operations: Workers may be required to operate tractors and other farm equipment during field operations as an incidental activity in the production of crops. Before any worker is required to operate any farm equipment, the worker will be instructed in the proper and safe operation of tractor. Workers will be required to operate tractors according to instructions and in a manner, that protects the operator, other workers, trees, crops, and equipment. Repeated failure to obey operating and safety instructions may result in termination. Irrigation Installation: Workers will perform various duties associated with irrigation installation. These duties may include but not limited to trenching pipe, orienting layflat irrigation hose, hooking up said hose, connecting dripper hose to sub-mains, setting irrigation pumps and suction lines, and flushing/tying off dripper lines. General Maintenance: Workers will be responsible for performing general maintenance around the farm. This will include fence mending, assisting with barb wire fencing, spreading manure, landscaping when includes mowing, weeding eating, trimming, and planting trees/shrubs. Workers will repair and paint buildings to ensure they are in good repair. Farm, and Field Sanitation: All workers will be responsible for picking up trash, cleaning bathrooms, sweeping floors and other farm sanitation duties.

Job Classification:

45-2092.00 - Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Job Requirements

Experience Required:

Yes

Months of Experience Required:

3

Special Requirements:

All applicants must have at least 3 months experience working on a commercial farm. Applicants must be able to furnish affirmative job references from recent employers operating comparable operations establishing acceptable previous experience. Must be physically able to meet and perform all job specifications stated in job order. Must be able to work in the hot humid weather for extended periods of time. Workers are subject to random drug testing at no cost to the employee. All drug testing will occur after the worker begins his or her employment and is not a part of the interview process. Failing or refusing a drug test will result in immediate termination.

Number of Hours Per Week:

40

Work Schedule (Start/End time):

7:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:

Double Creek Ranch

Company Name:

Richard Naisbett

Location:

Demopolis , AL 36732

Worksite

Address:

1070 Bert Rosenbush Rd, Demopolis , AL 36732

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:

H-300-23361-593566

Multiple Worksites:

No

Date Posted:

1/8/2024

Piece Rate Offer

$0.00

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