Farmworker

H2ajobs; Watford City (ND); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

H2ajobs seeks seasonal livestock workers for the winter calving season in North Dakota. Duties include feeding, monitoring, assisting with births, and caring for cattle and newborn calves in a high-care environment.

Personnel will handle movement and tagging of cattle, maintain facilities, and use farm equipment. Requires 3 months of verifiable experience and a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

• Job requires three months of verifiable experience in seasonal livestock duties.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds.
• Must possess a valid regular driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Perform seasonal livestock duties during the winter calving season.
• Feed, monitor, and care for cattle and newborn calves daily.
• Assist with births and calving deliveries as needed.
• Move and identify cattle between pens, calving areas, and enclosures.
• Clean and maintain stalls, pens and equipment using disinfectants and tools.

Skills

Lifting capability 50 lbs

Outdoor/work endurance

Physical stamina

Tools

Livestock handling equipment

Job description

Workers will perform seasonal livestock duties associated with the employer’s winter calving season from December through March. During this period, cattle are confined to winter/calving areas because pasture forage is unavailable and require daily feeding, watering, monitoring, and care. Workers will monitor pregnant cows for signs of labor; assist with births and deliveries as necessary; care for cows and newborn calves; feed and water livestock; monitor feed and water supplies; mix feed, supplements, additives, and medications in prescribed portions; and distribute feed using trucks, tractors, feed wagons, or other farm equipment. Workers will examine cattle and calves for signs of illness, injury, disease, abnormal behavior, or other health concerns; assist with livestock reproduction and routine animal care; segregate, mark, tag, and identify livestock; move cattle between pens, calving areas, enclosures, scales, trailers, and other designated areas; and assist with loading and unloading livestock as needed. Workers will clean and maintain stalls, pens, calving areas, feeding areas, livestock equipment, and facilities using disinfectants, brushes, shovels, hoses, pumps, and other appropriate tools and may operate trucks, tractors, skid steers, loaders, feed wagons, and other equipment necessary to care for livestock. The employer’s need for these workers is seasonal because the cattle require intensive daily care, feeding, monitoring, and calving assistance during the winter confinement and calving period; once spring pasture and forage become available, the cattle are released to pasture and the need for daily feeding, confinement care, and intensive calving-related labor ends.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities and space for food preparation, as well as the necessary equipment, appliances (including refrigeration),cooking accessories, and dish washing facilities (e.g., adequate sinks with hot and cold water under pressure) that are in working condition and will be used by workers to sufficiently prepare three (3) meals a day. Employer will offer free transportation to town for personal services (i.e. banking, groceries) at least once per week for non range workers.

Transport: The employer will pay the worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer, whether in the U.S. or abroad to the place of employment (inbound/outbound). The employer will permit workers to select any means of transportation they choose and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved.

Experience wanted: 3 months

Job requires three (3) months previous verifiable experience completing these job duties. Requires exposure to extreme outdoor temperatures, extensive pushing or pulling, prolonged sitting or walking, and frequent stooping or bending. Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 pounds and possess a valid regular drivers license.