Winter Ranchhand

H2ajobs; Silver Lake (OR); On-site; USD 30,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-provided housing

Free meals

Transportation provided

Job summary

H2ajobs in Oregon seeks a dependable ranch hand to perform a range of duties from caring for livestock to maintaining equipment and facilities, handling hay, feeding, watering, and winterizing gear. The role requires the ability to ride and tend horses, operate tractors and ATVs, and work outdoors in all weather.

You will receive employer-provided housing, meals, and transportation arrangements, with paid travel to/from groceries and occasional reimbursement after half the contract.

Qualifications

• 6 months of ranch or farm experience.
• Ability to ride, handle and tend horses safely.
• Comfort working outdoors in all weather conditions.

Responsibilities

• Apply medications to livestock as needed and assist in sanitation.
• Feed and water cattle and livestock; monitor welfare.
• Maintain fences, facilities, and equipment to ensure safety and health of animals.

Skills

Horse handling

Livestock care

Equipment maintenance

Weather endurance

Tools

Tractors

ATVs

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; 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; loading/unloading trucks; maintain/clean and fill water troughs and buckets; maintenance of farm structures and farm grounds; make certain animals have access to fresh water; mix and feed specific feed rations to cattle; repair and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; set up, tear down and move temporary electric fence used to contain livestock in a specific area; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death; apply medications to cuts and bruises; loading/unloading trucks; maintenance of farm structures and farm grounds; removal of excess plant growth from farm grounds; work to winterize harvest and irrigation equipment.

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, to ride, handle and tend horses in a manner to assure the safety and health of the worker, co-workers, horses, dogs and livestock, to operate equipment and machinery required to perform job duties indicated in a safe and responsible manner, to maintain equipment and machinery to a standard established by the employer, work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional exposure to hazards such as poisonous snakes and large game animals, biting insects and extreme temperature, work with and around farm machinery such as tractors, UTVs and ATVs for supplemental feeding purposes and movement of livestock.