Livestock Worker/Ranch hand

H2ajobs; Cedar Hill (TN); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Transportation

Job summary

H2ajobs in Tennessee seeks a dedicated livestock farm worker to assist with tagging, feeding, illness detection, and basic veterinary support as needed. You may help with breeding, inseminations, births, and routine animal care, under supervision.

Responsibilities include moving equipment and livestock, mixing feed, maintaining pens and fences, patrolling grazing lands, inspecting gear, and keeping production records.

Qualifications

• Entry-level position; no formal experience required.
• Must be able to stand, bend, stoop, and perform physically demanding tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provide tagging, feeding, illness detection, and basic medical care or arrange for veterinarians.
• Move livestock and equipment between locations; mix feed and medicines as prescribed.
• Assist with reproduction-related duties and routine animal care; monitor health and safety.
• Inspect, maintain, and repair farm infrastructure; patrol grazing lands and ensure water access.
• Maintain growth and cost records related to animal production.

Skills

Farm labor

Physical fitness

Job description

Skill Level 1

Tagging, calving, illness detection, injury, disease, or any physical abnormality. Provide medical treatment, such as administering medications and vaccinations, or arrange for veterinarians to provide more extensive treatment, mark livestock to identify ownership, using brands, tags, paint, or tattoos, and maintain heated water systems or breaking water tank ice when necessary. Segregate animals according to weight, age, color, breed and physical condition. Inspect, maintain, and repair equipment, machinery, buildings, pens, yards, and fences.

Move equipment or livestock from one location to another, manually or by using trucks or carts. Mix feed, additives, and medicines in prescribed potions. Shift animals between grazing areas to ensure they have sufficient access to food and water. Order feed for animals and arrange for it delivery. Perform duties related to livestock reproduction, such as breeding animals within appropriate timeframes, assisting with artificial inseminations, and helping with animal births. Patrol grazing lands on foot or by using all-terrain vehicles. Maintain growth, feeding production, and cost records associated with animal production

Livestock: Cattle, Swine

General Conditions: If work is available beyond normal workdays, employer may offer, but not require, worker an opportunity to work additional hours. Workers will report to work at designated time and place as directed by assigned employer each day. workers may be requested to ten (10) hours per day depending on conditions in fields and the maturity of the crops. Also, workers may be requested to work on federal holidays and their Sabbath but will not be required. Workers may volunteer to work additional hours when work is available. Down time: Workers should expect occasional periods of little or no work because of weather, crop or other conditions beyond the employer’s control. These periods can occur any time throughout the season. Worker may be required to work in fields when crops are wet with dew / rain and should have suitable clothing for conditions which include light rain and temperatures ranging from 10 degrees to more than 100 degrees. Workers should be able to stand, bend, stoop and work for prolonged periods of time and be physically fit to perform duties as assigned. Care must always be exercised with any use of equipment.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer shall provide free and convenient access to cooking facilities or a kitchen so that workers can prepare their own meals. The employer will also provide transportation, at least once each week to assure that workers have access to stores.

Transport: The employer will permit workers eligible for travel reimbursement to select any means of transportation they choose, and employer will reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges

Experience wanted: 0 months

Physically able to bend, stoop, and able to stand on feet for long periods of time. Physically able to meet and perform all job specifications. May be required to take random drug and / or alcohol tests, at no cost to the worker. Testing positive or failure to comply may result in immediate termination from employment. All testing and background check will occur after employment has started and is not a part of the interview process. May be required to submit a criminal background check, at no cost to the worker. Felony convictions that employer reasonably believes, consistent with current law, will impair the safety and living conditions of other workers or other individuals on the farm will result in immediate termination. Failure to comply with request for criminal background check may result in immediate termination of employment.