Range Sheepherder
Round Grove Ranch Company
📍 Townsend, MT · Broadwater County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26310-347946
- 📞 Phone: +1 (406) 980-1830
- ✉️ Email: kingallssheep@gmail.com
Employer instructions
Open Job Order, please contact Local State Employment office. The employment office will refer each applicant to Round Grove Ranch. Round Grove Ranch 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., Mountain Standard time 406-980-1830. 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 maintain a strong commitment to providing a safe, efficient, and productive work environment. An employee's involvement with alcohol and drugs could be extremely dangerous to all employees and others, and disruptive to the workplace. Use, manufacture, distribution or possession of an illegal drug, or misuse of a prescription drug is cause for termination. Any person found to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs while working will be terminated. At the employers expense, all applicants may be required to complete pre-employment alcohol and drug testing. Failure to consent to requested testing, will result in disqualification of the applicant.
✉️ Application email template in English
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Subject: Application for Range Sheepherder (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26310-347946
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Must have 3 months experience with 800 - 1000 head flocks. One reference required. Attends sheep flock grazing on the range or pasture: Herds flock and rounds up strays using trained dogs. Attends to sheep grazing on the range to include: Herding sheep on the range or in pastures while riding on horseback, riding ATVs, or walking on foot. Beds sheep down near the evening campsite. Guards sheep from predatory animals and from eating poisonous pants. Drenches sheep. May examine animals for signs of illness and administer vaccines, medications and insecticides according to instructions. Range herding is completed when the vegetation is in a state of dormancy (i.e. winter). A range herder requires knowledge and maintenance of rangeland to avoid overgrazing of the range and prevention of animals ingesting poisonous plants. Proper grazing techniques directed by the herder reduces wildland fire fuel, controls noxious weeds and ensures vegetative diversity and vigor of the range ecosystem, and increases soil fertility. Experienced employees hired for this type of position need to have the knowledge of maintaining a herd on the range so the sheep are not lost on the open range and also controls predators using a variety of techniques. The herder will bring the sheep to the ranch headquarters for vaccinating, drenching, sorting, culling, and loading the sheep onto trucks, and other animal husbandry practices. The herder may have to repair and replace livestock fences and corrals used to contain the herd as necessary, perform general maintenance on livestock watering systems,. The herder may need to work around or with a tractor or drive a truck to assist in providing supplemental feed for the sheep while the sheep are at the ranch headquarters. The herder may have to construct portable electric fences when the sheep are at the ranch headquarters. The worker may perform maintenance on water systems that are used exclusively by the sheep for watering the sheep.
May assist in lambing, docking, and shearing. The following seasonal duties will need to be performed. Herder will need to move pregnant ewes to lambing grounds. Be able to identify signs of ewes going into labor and identify potential problems during the labor process. Know how and when to assist during difficult births. Be able to properly constrain ewes for difficult births and able to graft orphan lambs to mothers. Ability to identify herd health issues including but not limited to malnutrition of ewes and lambs, prolapse and mastitis. Provide water to animals, including minor maintenance of water troughs and water lines. May need to haul water in truck to supplement animal water needs. May need to provide supplement feed for the ewes and lambs if the range has insufficient forage. Disperse livestock on the range to reduce overcrowding and increase the success of mother and lamb bonding. Protect vulnerable livestock (lambs & ewes in labor) from predators. Move Ewes and lambs and assist in branding, castrating, vaccinating, tagging, and worming. Ability to safely catch lambs with a hook. Move ewes and lambs to summer range grounds.
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) (Townsend, Mt) |
| Housing | Mobile units will travel with the workers to various range locations through Broadwater County, Meagher County, Jefferson County, and Lewis and Clark Counties in Montana Four mobile range units with the capacity of one per unit. Total housing is four. 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 upon presentation of receipts and from the worksite at the end of the job based on rates established in the applicable regulations. |
| Pay deductions | Social Security, State and Federal Income Tax withholding's may be deducted from wages. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26310-347946 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION |
| Posted | Nov 9, 2026 |