Ranch Hand
Employer
2122 US HIGHWAY 91
CONRAD, MT 59425
United States
Job description
Employees will help calve out calves during the calving season. Tag calves, medicate, vaccinate, and treat for seasonal illnesses. Care for the newborn calves and nursing mothers during the cold weather period when they require additional care and feed due to the extremely cold temperatures and seasonal
illnesses. Isolate sick calves. Transport hay bales. Feed cattle during snowy/subfreezing periods when no seasonal pasture lands remain available for them to naturally graze upon. Remove snow from farm property. Break ice formation in water tanks daily, possibly multiple times a day depending on the temperatures. Help with branding of the calves, vaccinations, tagging, banding/castration and sorting before the calves are hauled to sale yards and market in the fall. Be able to load and unload cattle into trailers. Move all livestock out to pasture, by pickup truck, horseback or utv, once seasonal
grasslands become accessible in the spring. Haul minerals and salt blocks to various pasture lands and check on the water accessibility each day. Routinely
check on livestock in various pasture lands.
Employees will assist in servicing equipment in preparation for Spring Seeding, Haying and Harvesting. Assist with the planting, haying and harvesting of the crops. Set up and move augers, as needed. Use a tractor or a pick-up truck to move augers or manually move augers from grain bin to gram bin.
Employees will clean bins along with all grain spillage outside of grain bin.
Employees will perform a variety of general maintenance and repairs to equipment, building and fences, due to damage from everyday use and weather.
Run errands to pickup parts, materials and supplies, using pickup trucks that are primarily equipped with both standard (clutch) and automatic transmissions.
Employees will have to clean trucks, equipment and pickup trucks as necessary.
Pick rocks from fields as necessary, to avoid damage to the farm equipment.
All vehicles that are operated by the employees will be under the 26,001 lb GVW
Weight Limit and at no cost to the employees/workers."
Special Requirements
Employer will make all deductions as required by law, as well as deductions for loans (if any); long distance telephone charges (if any); reimbursement for damage caused to the housing by the individual worker(s) found to have been responsible for damage which is not the result of normal wear and tear related to habitation (if any); charges for reasonable costs related to the worker's refusal or negligent failure to return all items furnished by the employer or due to the worker's willful damage or destruction of such property; deductions directed by the worker by a voluntary assignment solely for the benefit of the worker to a creditor, donee, or other 3rd party (e.g. worker's store/vendor accounts with merchants) wholly independent of the employer and from which neither the employer nor any person acting on his behalf or interest, directly or indirectly, derives any profit or benefit. No deductions except those required by law will be made which bring the worker's below Federal Wage