Livestock Worker

H2ajobs; Coffeeville (MS); On-site; USD 26,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transport reimbursement after 50% of合同

Job summary

H2ajobs is seeking workers to tend cattle and perform farm duties in Mississippi. You will feed, examine, tag, herd, and operate equipment such as front end loaders, tractors, and goose-neck trailers.

Responsibilities include digging trenches, maintaining water systems, cleaning pens, mixing feed, and assisting with calving. Role requires outdoor work in all weather, occasional lifting, and potential for random drug testing.

Qualifications

• Basic English literacy is required.
• Must have or obtain a driver's license within 30 days of hire.
• Experience with cattle feeding and working cattle is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Tend to livestock by feeding, examining, tagging, and herding.
• Operate equipment including front end loaders, tractors, and trucks with goose-neck trailers.
• Dig drain trenches, scoop manure, and maintain water systems.
• Clean pens/bedding, mix feed, lift hay bags, spray cattle, vaccinate and calve cows.
• Maintain fences and repair gear as needed while working outdoors in varying weather.

Skills

Basic English literacy

Driver's license

Cattle handling

Outdoor work

Job description

Job requires tending to livestock in the forms of feeding, examining, tagging, and herding and operating various equipment including, but not limited to front end loaders, tractors, and trucks with goose-neck cattle trailers. Duties often require digging drain trenches with a shovel and scooping manure. Job will also require maintaining equipment pertaining to cattle, repairing and maintaining drinking water systems, cleaning pens and bedding areas of sick cattle/calves, mixing feed, lifting bags of mineral and hay bales, spraying cattle for pests, vaccinating cattle, calving cows and bred heifers, occasionally lifting and carrying newborn calves, weaning calves from cows, checking cows during the calving period, and maintain fences which may call for repair which could require the use of chainsaw, joe blade, and other manual implements. There are few typical days and workers may be required to change duties and/or locations often. Must be willing to work outdoors in all, varying weather conditions. 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. Employer provided housing 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

Job requires having or being able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire. Basic English literacy skills are required. Job will require periods when workers may be exposed to varying weather conditions and extensive pushing, pulling, sitting, walking, stooping, or bending. Random drug testing and criminal background checks may occur post-hire at the employers expense. These checks may be performed to ensure safe housing and work environments for all workers. Working in freezing temperatures is sometimes necessary. Must have experience with cattle feeding and working cattle.