Winter Ranchhand

H2ajobs; Absarokee (MT); On-site; USD 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Meals provided

Transportation to town

Job summary

H2ajobs in Montana is seeking workers for general ranch duties and livestock production through winter. Tasks include applying medications, feeding, watering, moving hay, operating tractors and ATVs, maintaining fences and corrals, and inspecting animals for disease or injury.

Housing and meals are employer-provided; transportation to town or groceries is arranged and expenses reimbursed. Experience requested is 6 months.

Qualifications

• 6 months experience required or preferred.

Responsibilities

• Apply medications to cuts and bruises.
• Maintain tools, equipment and handling facilities for cattle production.
• Break ice from frozen water sources and ensure cattle have access to water.
• Feed and water cattle; provide minerals and cake as needed.
• Load and unload hay, sacks of grain and mineral onto trucks or wagons.
• Inspect animals to detect diseases or injuries.
• Operate tractors and ATVs for feeding and movement of livestock.
• Maintain/clean and repair farm structures and housing locations.
• Work outdoors in all weather and in remote locations, often with limited supervision.

Job description

Perform any combination of the following tasks required in general ranch work and the production of

livestock through winter months: apply medications to cuts and bruises; assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and handling facilities necessary to production; break ice over frozen water sources; build and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; clean and disinfect livestock corrals, pens and handling facilities; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; feed and water and ensure adequate provision of both; feed cake and mineral to cattle in pastures; lift and stack bales of hay and sacks of grain and mineral onto a feed truck or wagon; load bales of hay and/or sacks of grain onto truck or trailer used for feeding; maintain/clean and fill water troughs and buckets; make certain animals have access to fresh water; mix and feed specific feed rations to cattle; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death; apply medications to cuts and bruises; loading/unloading trucks; maintenance of farm structures; removal of excess plant growth from farm grounds.

Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)

Meals: The employer will provide, without charge or deposit, free and convenient cooking facilities to prepare meals. Transportation to the grocery store will be provided to the workers at no cost no less than once every two weeks.

Transport: Transportation to the place of employment (inbound):The employer will provide or pay for commercial bus or airline service to workers, or 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 distance involved. Upon completion of 50% of the work contract period, the employer will reimburse worker for reasonable costs incurred by the worker for transportation and daily

Experience wanted: 6 months

Required to: perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, spend the majority of work days on the range, live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time, to operate equipment and machinery required to perform job duties indicated in a safe and responsible manner, work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional exposure to hazards such as poisonous snakes, biting insects and extreme temperature, to maintain equipment and machinery to a standard established by the employer, attend animals during all hours of the day as required for their safety and well-being, maintain and manage remote housing locations in a safe and responsible manner, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors for supplemental feeding purposes and ATVs for movement of livestock, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors for haying and supplemental feeding purposes and ATVs for irrigating and the movement