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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Ranch Hand

Purdy Ranch

Eureka, MT

$16.83 per hour

ACTIVE

Recruitment Information

Telephone Number to Apply:
+14062504476
Email address to Apply:
josephlpurdy@gmail.com

Job Description

Full Time:
Yes
Number of Workers Requested:
1
Job Duties:
Duties may include: Assist with general calving operations such as examining calves to detect illness, injury, or disease, and to check physical characteristics, such as rate of weight gain. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment. Help with vaccinations, branding of calves, and weaning of calves from cows to start their grain-based diet. Worker will be responsible for helping move cattle to mountain range, sorting cattle, loading/unloading cattle from trailers, inspect livestock for illness and injuries, separate sick livestock from the herd, move sick/injured livestock to treatment area, administer medications/injury care or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment, administer vaccinations for new cattle, confine livestock to stalls, groom livestock, castrate livestock, weigh livestock, spray livestock with insecticide, inspect pens/stables, clean/disinfect pens/stables, remove old bedding, prepare new bedding, maintain livestock equipment, transport cattle to pastures, maintain or repair fencing for livestock, maintain windbreaks/fencing. Worker will be expected to ride horseback in the range. Help with daily farming duties such as helping with irrigation, repairing gaskets and piping for irrigation, removing piping from fields before harvesting of hay, spray weeds in fields, harvest, rake, bale and stack hay, & other related Ranch Hand activities as per SOC/OES 45-2093 (onetonline.org). Possible weekend/holiday work.
Job Classification:
45-2093.00 - Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

The job/industry classification and description includes general information on the position from ONET/OES and the North American Industry Classification System. Please review Job Duties and Job Order for more information.

Job Requirements

Experience Required:
Yes
Months of Experience Required:
3
Special Requirements:
Must be 18 years of age. Worker has 3 days from date of hire to show proof of legal authorization to work in the United States. Drug/alcohol/tobacco free work zone. Static strength; exert max muscle force to lift, push, pull, unload, carry objects up to 75lbs (possible 2-person); may climb, walk, stand, reach, balance, sit, stoop, bend, squat, wash, clean: equip, grounds, area. All applicants must be able, willing and qualified to perform work described and must be available for the entire period specified. Based on Employer's discretion/cost: Worker may have random drug/alcohol testing during employment: positive test/refusal to abide = dismissal. Variable weather conditions may apply. Worker must be able to obtain a valid US Driver's License within 2 weeks of reporting to work.
Number of Hours Per Week:
45
Work Schedule (Start/End time):
6:00 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.

Employer Information

Trade Name/Doing Business As:
Purdy Ranch
Company Name:
Joseph Purdy
Location:
Eureka, MT 59917

Worksite

Address:
390 Purdy Drive, Eureka, MT 59917

Job Order Details

ETA Case Number:
H-300-24355-560291
Multiple Worksites:
No
Additional Wage Information:
High wage offer of $17.00 per hour. Based on experience.
Date Posted:
12/23/2024
Piece Rate Offer
$0.00

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