Ranch Hand and Livestock Worker

H2ajobs; Hayes Center (NE); On-site; USD 17,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Housing provided

Meals provided

Travel reimbursement

Job summary

H2ajobs in Nebraska seeks a farm laborer to perform feeding, watering, herding, and routine cattle management tasks on a cattle operation. You will assist with birthing, medications, and disease prevention, and help with fence maintenance and haying seasons.

The role includes housing and meals provided with a fully equipped kitchen and access to a vehicle for groceries; travel reimbursement is provided per H-2A rules. Experience of 3 months is preferred.

Qualifications

• 3 months experience in farming
• Ability to operate farm equipment
• Comfort with handling cattle

Responsibilities

• Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals
• Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries
• Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides
• Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment
• Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, maintaining and repair of equipment, various workshop tasks as well as maintenance of fences.
• Repair fences, dig post holes, install and remove electrical fences.
• Rake and bale hay
• Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment
• Drive farm trucks, tractors, and other farming equipment to distribute food to cattle
• Receive and place stocker cattle and cows on wheat and corn stalks for grazing
• Pull cattle off stalks and other grazed crops
• Gather cattle and move cattle with 4-wheelers and stock trailers
• Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
• Meals: Housing provided to the worker has a fully equipped kitchen where the worker can prepare and cook his own meals three times a day. The kitchen is fully functional and equipped with appliances such as stove, refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher – all in working condition. The kitchen is equipped with the necessary utensils for prepping and cooking food. Adequate sinks with the warm and cold water under pressure. The employer will ensure that the worker has access to a grocery store at least once a week to purchase own food/produce. The worker has access to a vehicle to drive to the grocery stores from the house to the stores and back.
• Transport: The Employer will reimburse the worker for travel cost, including daily subsistence rates stipulated at the time, from the worker’s place of residence to the workplace, and upon contract completion, from the workplace back to the worker’s place of residence at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charge for the distance involved, for example return bus and or airfare.
• Experience wanted: 3 months
• See Addendum C

Job description

Job duties include but are not limited to:

Feeding, watering, herding, castrating, branding, weighing, catching, and loading animals

Examining animals to detect diseases and injuries

Assisting in birthing, administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides

Maintaining winter animal housing areas; using diggers, shovels and other equipment needed

Ongoing maintenance includes cleaning, maintaining and repair of equipment, various workshop tasks as well as maintenance of fences.

Repair fences, dig post holes, install and remove electrical fences.

Rake and bale hay

Use of various farm and cattle specific farming equipment

Drive farm trucks, tractors, and other farming equipment to distribute food to cattle

Receive and place stocker cattle and cows on wheat and corn stalks for grazing

Pull cattle off stalks and other grazed crops

Gather cattle and move cattle with 4-wheelers and stock trailers

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: Housing provided to the worker has a fully equipped kitchen where the worker can prepare and cook his own meals three times a day. The kitchen is fully functional and equipped with appliances such as stove, refrigerator, microwave and dishwasher – all in working condition. The kitchen is equipped with the necessary utensils for prepping and cooking food. Adequate sinks with the warm and cold water under pressure. The employer will ensure that the worker has access to a grocery store at least once a week to purchase own food/produce. The worker has access to a vehicle to drive to the grocery stores from the house to the stores and back.

Transport: The Employer will, as per H2A regulations, reimburse the worker for travel cost, including daily subsistence rates stipulated at the time, from the worker’s place of residence to the workplace, and upon contract completion, from the workplace back to the worker’s place of residence at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charge for the distance involved, for example return bus and or airfare.

Experience wanted: 3 months

See Addendum C