Livestock Worker
Gerald Porter Operating, LLC
📍 Fort Stockton, TX · Pecos County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26275-277698
- 📞 Phone: +1 (432) 395-2445
- ✉️ Email: lane.porter@bigbend.net
Employer instructions
Applicants, Workforce Agency Personnel, Walk-Ins, Gate Hires, etc. may:
Call for an interview during normal business hours [between the hours of 8am and 4pm Mon. -Fri.]
Contact:
Lane Porter, Manager (432)395-2445
Employer Email: lane.porter@bigbend.net
Telephone interviews may be conducted during normal business hours as stated above.
✉️ Application email template in English
Replace what is in brackets [ ] with your details. If the employer asked for another way to apply, follow their instructions.
Subject: Application for Livestock Worker (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26275-277698
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
The workers will perform tasks in line with castrating, drenching, and weaning calves as well as assisting with shearing sheep. General supervision will be provided by the ranch manager. Workers will leave the ranch headquarters each morning to feed and check livestock during the day and at times will be responsible for securing the livestock in pens overnight before returning to the ranch headquarters. Workers will be responsible for inspecting and repairing fences used to contain the herd. Livestock duties will include herding sheep to pastures for feeding and grazing; sorting and rounding up strays, protecting and defending livestock from predators and from eating poisonous or noxious plants and maintaining water systems in the pastures. Workers will at times need to ride horses to move livestock. Workers will ride horses to move livestock and must be able to handle a horse safely to ensure the safety of the worker, co-workers, and livestock. Workers will manually restrain livestock when required, caring for all livestock and other domestic animals used to help with moving livestock. Workers must have a natural sense of direction to be able to find and maintain their bearing to/from grazing areas. Workers must be willing and able to perform tasks efficiently without close supervision. At the ranch headquarters, workers will clean stalls, pens, and other equipment used for the production of sheep and cattle.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 2 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 100 lb Drug test |
Workers must be able to lift and carry items weighing up to 100 lbs. Two (2) months of experience working with sheep and horse riding in the pasture and rough country is required. Cellphones are required for work duties, and the employer will directly provide an employer-owned cell phone/communication device to all workers in the field at no cost or deposit to the worker.
Benefits and conditions
| Schedule | 7:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Paid | Other |
| Pay details | $10.40 per hour for H-2A Workers. |
| Housing type | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Fort Stockton, Tx) |
| Housing | Employer-Provided Housing |
| Meals | The employer will furnish free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so workers may prepare their own meals. Employer will provide (on a voluntary basis) transportation to assure workers access to stores where they can purchase groceries and/or other incidentals. If free and convenient kitchen facilities become unavailable for any reason, the employer will provide three (3) meals a day for which it will charge individual workers, by payroll deduction, no more than the daily permitted amount as provided in 20 CFR 655.173, which was $16.78 as of April 7, 2026, and which may be increased during the period of this employment. |
| Daily transportation | Employer will provide daily transportation between housing provided or secured by the employer and the employer's place of employment at no cost to the worker. Please see Work Term 9 of 12 and Addendum C for a more detailed Daily Transportation Plan. |
| Travel to the job | Employer will either arrange for inbound and outbound transportation via a charter bus service for the worker, or if the worker prefers to arrange their own transportation, Employer will reimburse the worker at no less than the most economical and reasonable common carrier transportation charges for the distances involved as well as for the related daily subsistence costs while the worker is traveling. Please see Work Term 1 of 12 for more detailed Inbound/Outbound Transportation arrangements. |
| Pay deductions | Social Security and Federal Taxes. If any advances are given to workers, they will be deducted from their checks. Any willful destruction of property will also be deducted. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26275-277698 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | Farmer Law PC |
| Posted | Oct 27, 2026 |