Range Lamber
LIVING SYSTEMS LAND MNGMT LLC
📍 Coalinga, CA · Fresno County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26190-088052
- 📞 Phone: +1 (408) 464-4423
- ✉️ Email: jlcanaday@sbcglobal.net
- 🌐 Website: lslm.org
Employer instructions
Open Job Order, please contact Local State Employment office. The employment office will refer each applicant to Living Systems Land Management. Living Systems Land Management will conduct a full telephone interview with the applicant. The office hours are Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Pacific time. All employers must continue to be open to any qualified U.S worker regardless of race, color, national origin, age, sex, religion, handicap, or citizenship. No strike requirements - The worksite does not currently have workers on strike or being locked out in the course of a labor dispute.
Western Range Association and its rancher members adopt the public policy considerations of the California Drug Free Workplace Act (CA Gov. Code 8355) as well as its federal counterpart. Western Range maintains a strong commitment to providing a safe, efficient, and productive work environment. H-2A employee involvement with alcohol and drugs could be extremely dangerous to the employee, to all other employees, the general public and third parties, and it is disruptive to the workplace. H-2A herders provide the primary care for hundreds of animals and are presumed to be in safety and security sensitive positions. While Western Range recognizes that it is neither a California government employer nor a California government contractor, it nonetheless adopts certain policies and procedures applicable to government workers as set forth herein. Any person who is on duty or on standby who is found to use, possess, or be under the influence of illegal or unauthorized drugs or other illegal mind-altering substances or who uses or is under the influence of alcohol to any extent that would impede his ability to perform his or her duties safely and effectively will be terminated. Manufacture, distribution or possession of an illegal drug, or misuse of a prescription drug is also cause for termination. Applicants who are to be employed in the sensitive positions stated above, may be subject to pre-employment and reasonable cause drug and alcohol testing (substance testing) at the employer's expense.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Range Lamber (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26190-088052
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Workers must have at least 3 months of experience birthing livestock with heads of 800 – 1000 or larger on the open range or pasture. One reference required.
The following seasonal duties will need to be performed. Be able to identify signs of labor and potential problems during the labor process. Know how and when to assist during difficult births. Herder will need to sort off and mark mothers with the appropriate babies and hold in a separate pen until they can be picked up and returned to headquarters. If helping at headquarters (rotation basis), need to help with unloading of mothers and babies and being sure babies are with correct mother and nursing. May have to assist newborns with suckling mom or grafting onto a new mom. Need to maintain clean pens, feed and water livestock during the mother up period. May assist in tagging, vaccinating, worming and castration of livestock. Ability to move family groups into field and watch for signs of lambs/kids not finding their mothers and assist with their location. Able to identify head health issues including but not limited to malnutrition of ewes/does, prolapse and mastitis. Ability to safely catch lambs with a hook. Drivers license is preferred. Driver will pick up mothers and babies from the range and deliver to headquarters for mothering up period. May need to haul and disburse water and/or supplemental feed with truck and trailer. Will include minor maintenance of water troughs and water lines. Ability to move and repair portable fencing to maintain feed for livestock and keep animals away from restricted areas. Assist with loading and unloading of livestock in trailers. May assist in moving livestock from one location to another with truck and trailer or moving herder trailer to new location. 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 a dishonest or willful act or by the gross negligence on the part of the employee (normal wear and tear excepted). Hours worked footnote: On call for up to 24 hours 7 days a week
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 3 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb Drug test |
Benefits and conditions
| Paid | Other |
|---|---|
| Pay details | Employer shall provide housing and board in accordance with the rules and regulations of the federal government of the United States of America. Discretionary performance-based bonuses may be available. Payroll advances may be available. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Coalinga, Ca) |
| Housing | Mobile units will travel with the workers to various range locations through Marin, Napa, San Francisco, Contra Costa, Alameda, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Merced, Yuba, Sacramento, Tehema, Placer, San Joaquin, Lake, San Luis Obispo, Kings, Tulare, Ventura, Los Angeles and Orange counties in CA Eleven mobile range units with the capacity of one per unit. Total housing is eleven. The housing is available and sufficient to accommodate the workers being requested. |
| Meals | Housing contains free and convenient cooking facilities and employer will provide three prepared meals a day or adequate food, free of charge, based on the requisition by worker, for workers to prepare their own meals while in camp or on the range. Employer may at times provide prepared meals for workers consumption. Employer will provide worker a minimum of 4.5 gallons of potable water per day per worker for drinking and cooking purposes. Additional clean water will be provided to meet the workers laundry and bathing needs |
| Daily transportation | Workers are on the range 51% or more of the time, therefore daily transportation is not needed. For the period of time the worker is off the range, transportation is provided by the employer. |
| Travel to the job | Transportation from point of recruitment to worksite and from the worksite back to the point of recruitment will be arranged and provided by Employer. Employer will reimburse worker for subsistence costs during travel to worksite no later than the end of the first pay period and from the worksite at the end of the job based on rates established in the applicable regulations. |
| Pay deductions | Social Security, Federal and State Income Tax withholding's may be deducted from wages. The employer will deduct a portion of CA State Disability Insurance from worker pay as specified in California law. All deductions, required by California law including potential local taxes will be deducted. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26190-088052 |
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| Official occupation | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION |
| Posted | Jul 13, 2026 |