Range Calver
Butter Creek Cattle Company
📍 Heppner, OR · Morrow County
- ✔ Housing provided
- ✔ Daily transportation
How to apply
Contact the employer directly. Mention the job title and the case number. Case number: JO-A-300-26313-352334
- 📞 Phone: +1 (541) 676-9421
- ✉️ Email: currincattle@gmail.com
Employer instructions
Open Job Order, please contact Local State Employment office. The employment office will refer each applicant to Butter Creek Cattle Company. Butter Creek Cattle Company 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 541-676-9421. 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.
Job duties
Original text, as filed with the Department of Labor.
Workers must have at least 3 months of experience birthing livestock with herds of 200 head or larger on the open range or pasture. One reference required. The following seasonal duties will need to be performed. Herder will need to move pregnant cows from winter grazing grounds to calving grounds. Be able to identify signs of cows 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 cows for difficult births and able to graft orphan calves to mothers. Ability to identify herd health issues including but not limited to malnutrition of cows and calves, prolapse and mastitis. Check springs to ensure the water is still running during the winter months. May need to break ice and haul water if the animals have no other source for water. May need to provide supplement feed for the cows and calves if the range has insufficient forage. Disperse livestock on the range to reduce overcrowding and increase the success of mother and calf bonding. Protect vulnerable livestock (calves & cows in labor) from predators. Move cows and calves to branding grounds and assist in Branding, Castrating, Vaccinating, tagging, and worming. Ability to safely rope and or catch calves with a hook. Move cows and calves to summer range grounds. 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. Workers will be asked, but not required, to obtain a valid U.S. driver license to operate a motor vehicle and drive between pastures to feed cows and check on herd daily.
Requirements
| Education | None required |
|---|---|
| Experience | 3 months |
| Other requirements | Lifting up to 50 lb Drug test |
The employer, Butter Creek Cattle Company ensures they will comply with the OARs heat related illness prevention.
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) (Heppner, Or) |
| Housing | Mobile unit will travel with the workers to various range locations through Morrow, Umatilla and Grant counties in Oregon. Range unit: 2017 Forest River Vengeance, OR Plate R893069 with an occupancy of 2 and a fixed site unit with an occupancy of 2. The housing is available and sufficient to accommodate the workers being requested. The employer will provide sufficient housing that meets the applicable standards to those that are not able to return to their residence within the same day. |
| 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. Wages will be paid based upon the county in which the work will be performed. Non- urban counties will be $2522.00 per month plus room and board. Standard counties will be $2695.33 per month plus room and board. |
| Case number | JO-A-300-26313-352334 |
|---|---|
| Official occupation | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Employer's agent or attorney | WESTERN RANGE ASSOCIATION |
| Posted | Nov 10, 2026 |