Job Details
Temporary Need: 02/10/24 - 11/01/24. Two (2) full-time, seasonal, temporary Range Livestock Worker needed. Must have three (3) months experience with 200 head of livestock on the range. Able to lift 50 lbs. One reference required. Wage is $1,901.21/mo. Work will be performed in Spring City, Utah. Multiple worksites in Sanpete and Juab Counties, Utah will be used. Worksite locations varies depending on season, weather and grazing rotation. On call for up to 24 hours 7 days a week. Duties: Attends livestock grazing on range or pasture: Herds and rounds up strays using trained dogs. Beds down livestock near evening campsite and moves portable fence to avoid animals over grazing. Guard livestock from predatory animals and from eating poisonous plants. Drenches livestock. May examine animals for signs of illness and administer vaccines, medications and insecticides according to instructions. May assist in birthing and health protocols for newborn animals. May need to work around and with tractors to assist in providing supplemental feed. Providing water to animals, including minor maintenance of water troughs and water lines. May perform duties including but not limited to herding, trailing, branding, castrating, sorting, and loading on to trucks for transport to a new range or market. May perform general repairs on fence and livestock facilities, perform minor mechanical duties, welding, and general ranch maintenance closely and directly related to herding and/or the production of livestock. The work activities involve the herding or production of livestock (which includes work that is closely and directly related to herding and/or the production of livestock). The worker must be able to saddle and ride a horse or mule in a safe and effective manner such as to avoid injury to self, coworkers, bystanders, or the animal itself. The worker may be required to shoe horses for his use. The worker must also be able to use a 4-wheeler in a safe and effective manner. Workers must be able to work alone for extended periods of time and complete tasks as instructed by the employer in a safe and timely manner without direct supervision. Some work/tasks may occur off the range, but more than 51% of work will be performed on the range. Western Range Association and its member ranches facilitate practices of good animal husbandry. Employees that are found abusing, neglecting or abandoning livestock entrusted to their care may be terminated for cause. If the negligent/abusive actions of an employee result in the loss/death of livestock/animals or cause harm to another person, the employee may be held accountable for these actions. The worker will live in the employer provided range housing. Said housing will be clean and in good repair at the time it is provided to the employee. The employee is responsible to maintain the housing unit in a reasonable level of cleanliness in order to avoid flies, mice or other vermin. The employee is responsible to alert the employer of damage to the housing unit within a reasonable amount of time. The employee may be held accountable for damage to the housing unit that is the result of negligence on the part of the employee (normal wear and tear excepted). Terms and conditions of employment: All tools, supplies and equipment necessary to perform the duties assigned will be provided at no cost or deposit to the worker in accordance with 20 CFR 655.20(k). Must be able to maintain bearings for grazing; must be able to ride and handle horses in a manner to assure the safety of the worker, co-workers, and livestock; employee must be willing to perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision; absences from work and/or failure to perform required tasks will not be tolerated; must be willing and able to live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time; the job entails working with farm machinery; will work outdoors in all types of weathe r and occas onal exposure to herding hazards such as poisonous snakes and predators. Must provide employment eligibility documentation (I9 verification) upon hire. The employer will provide, at no cost to the worker, Workers' Compensation coverage or private insurance which is equal to Workers' Compensation laws for comparable employment. Applicants that have not worked as a livestock worker during the past twelve (12) months, up to two (2) references will be required. Incoming transportation and subsistence advanced/paid to a worker before 50% completion of the work contract may be deducted from the worker's pay in accordance with applicable state regulations, but will be reimbursed to the worker upon 50% completion of the work contract. When a longer-term contract is negotiated with a U.S. or H-2A worker, the employer is not relieved of the responsibility for reimbursement to the worker for travel and subsistence expenses incurred in getting to the job site which were advanced by the employer and subsequently withheld form the worker's pay until 50% of the original contract period elapsed. These payments will made to the U.S. and H-2A workers at the 50% completion point of the original period of employment. The employer is responsible for return transportation and subsistence expenses if the U.S. and H-2A worker successfully fulfills his/her obligations under the original terms of employment for less than 1 year. However, such payment does not actually have to be made to the U.S and H-2A worker until the worker and the employer sever their employer/employee relationship, which will occur at the point in time subsequent to the end of the original period of employment when a longer-term contract is negotiated. Successful completion of the original contract or job order entitles the worker to return transportation and subsistence regardless of performance under renewal or extended contract. The employer will provide or pay for common carrier bus service and/or airplane flight and reimburse workers at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges incurred to travel from their home town to the workplace and workplace to their hometown. The employer guarantees to offer the worker employment for a total number of work days equal to at least 3/4's of the total work period beginning with the first workday after the arrival of the worker at the place of employment or advertised contractual first day of need. Whichever is later to occur, and ending on the expiration date specified. If the worker completes 50% of the work contract period, the employer shall pay the worker the cost incurred by the worker for transportation and daily subsistence from the place from which the worker has come to work for the employer ($15.46/day, maximum $59/day with receipts). The offered wage equals or exceeds the highest of the prevailing wage (AWER) that is issued and determined by DOL for the time period the work is performed. This job is in connection with a future H-2A Foreign Labor Certification application.