Farm Worker - Grain and Livestock

H2ajobs; Washington (KS); On-site; USD 17,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation reimbursement after 50%

Job summary

H2ajobs is seeking a farm laborer to tend livestock and perform routine tasks on a rural operation in the United States. The role requires feeding and checking cows daily, assisting with vet visits and medication administration, and performing pasture maintenance as needed.

Expect basic literacy and math skills, 2 months of experience, and willingness to perform manual duties such as lifting feed bags, shoveling grain, and washing waterers.

Qualifications

• 2 months of farm labor experience.
• Basic literacy and math skills.
• Willingness to perform manual tasks.

Responsibilities

• Feed cows daily and monitor health.
• Assist with vet visits and medication administration.
• Perform pasture maintenance and fencing tasks.
• Operate tractors and haul materials.
• Shovel grain and manure as required.

Skills

Livestock handling

Basic literacy

Basic math

Job description

Job will require tending to livestock in the forms of feeding, examining, branding or tagging, and herding; conducting the repair and maintenance; hauling and loading manure. The job will require feeding cows daily, checking cows daily, assisting with vet visits, assisting with medication administration, planting grass, tilling pasture, welding, washing waterers, cleaning pens, lifting feed bags, climbing fences, and shoveling grain and manure. Basic literacy and math skills along with 3 months of experience will be required. 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.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will provide, without charge or deposit, free and convenient kitchen and cooking facilities to prepare meals. The workers will be allowed time to drive themselves or will be transported to a store or market to purchase their own food and cooking supplies. This house contains a refrigerator, stove, oven, and operational sink with hot and cold water under pressure. In the event that the workers are unable to prepare meals at the housing location, the employer will provide three sufficient meals a day free of charge.

Transport: After worker has completed 50% of the work contract period, employer will reimburse worker for the cost of transportation and subsistence from the place of recruitment to the place of employment. Employee transportation will be arranged to and from their country of origin by either plane, train, bus, taxi service or own vehicle; whichever is most economical. The employer will properly reimburse employees for such travel as defined in 20 CFR 655.122(h). Continued in Addendum C.

Experience wanted: 2 months

Employees will be sitting more than 1 hour in tractors or trucks and will be exposed to heat during the summer months.