Ranch Hand
South Texas Consultation, LLC
📍 Shiner, TX · Lavaca County
- ✔ Vivienda ofrecida
- ✔ Transporte diario
Cómo postularse
Contacte directamente al empleador. En inglés, diga el puesto y el número de caso. Número de caso: JO-A-300-26292-308006
- 📞 Teléfono: +1 (830) 406-2160
- ✉️ Correo: dpscattlecompany@gmail.com
Instrucciones del empleador
Applicants should apply through the website or seasonaljobs.gov.dol or by contacting the Employer through the listed phone number or email. Applicants will be contacted and interviewed telephonically, Monday Friday, 9 a.m 4 p.m. Only Dan Stafford has hiring authority. Workers must meet all the following criteria: 1. Are available and indicate willingness to work the entire season; 2. Have transportation to the job site at the start of the season. Transportation costs will be reimbursed as required by law; 3. Have been fully informed by the local employment office of the terms, conditions, and nature of employment; 4. Are legally entitled to work in the U.S ; 5. Are able, willing, and qualified to perform the work. The worker must possess the documentation required to enable the employer to comply with the employment verification requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (ICRA). Completing Form I-9 will be required of each worker within (3) days of employment according to U.S. Law. Employer will abide by the requirements and assurances of 20CFR 653.50 1 in the processing and/or hiring of individuals referred through the clearance system. Other instructions at CFR 655.122 have been read and will be followed.
✉️ Modelo de correo en inglés para postularse
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Subject: Application for Ranch Hand (H-2A) - Case JO-A-300-26292-308006
Qué va a hacer
Texto original en inglés, tal como se registró en el Departamento de Trabajo.
PRIMARY DUTIES:
Workers will perform duties associated with operating a commercial cattle ranch and horse operation in Shiner, Texas. The ranch maintains stocker cattle, a cow-calf herd, and trains roping horses. Employees will assist with livestock care, horse care, equipment operation, facility maintenance, and general ranch operations. Essential job duties include:
Cattle Ranch Operations
• Feeding and watering: Distribute feed, mix rations, place mineral blocks, and ensure automatic water troughs or natural sources are accessible.
• Health monitoring: Check herds daily for signs of injury, illness, or disease, and administer required medications or vaccinations.
• Calving and breeding support: Assist with birthing, care for newborn calves, and monitor cows during calving season.
• Processing and branding: Handle branding, tagging, ear-notching, castrating, and weaning calves at designated times.
• Herding and moving: Move cattle between pastures using horses, ATVs, or trucks to prevent overgrazing
Horse Care and Barn Duties
• Feed and water horses according to established schedules
• Turn horses out and bring them in safely
• Clean stalls, remove manure, strip bedding, and rebed stalls
• Clean and refill water buckets and troughs
• Handle large horses confidently and safely, including draft horses
• Halter, lead, tie, groom, and prepare horses for riding or ranch activities
• Pick hooves and observe horses for stones, cracks, heat, swelling, or tenderness
• Maintain clean aisles, tack areas, feed rooms, wash racks, and storage spaces
• Clean and organize saddles, bridles, grooming equipment, blankets, and other tack
• Assist with saddling and unsaddling horses
• Help load and unload horses when necessary
• Monitor horses for changes in appetite, attitude, movement, manure, hydration, or general condition
• Immediately report signs of illness, injury, lameness, colic, damaged fencing, or unsafe behavior
• Follow feeding, turnout, medication, veterinary, and farrier instructions exactly
• Assist with holding horses for veterinarians, farriers, and other equine professionals
• Help maintain safe and professional horse experiences
Grounds and Property Maintenance
• Mow, shred, weed-eat, edge, and maintain ranch grounds
• Keep barns, roads, trails, entrances, fence lines, and guest areas clean and presentable
• Remove brush, limbs, rocks, trash, manure, and other debris
• Assist with pasture maintenance, weed control, seeding, fertilizing, and erosion prevention
• Monitor and maintain water troughs, hoses, irrigation systems, and drainage areas
• Inspect fences, gates, latches, signs, and livestock enclosures
• Make routine fence, gate, barn, and property repairs
• Maintain the covered arena, including dragging, leveling, watering, and monitoring footing
• Assist with seasonal projects, storm cleanup, freeze preparation, and fire prevention
• Safely operate and maintain tractors, mowers, utility vehicles, trailers, skid steers, chainsaws, and other ranch
equipment
• Complete routine equipment inspections, lubrication, cleaning, and minor maintenance
• Report larger equipment, fencing, water, or facility problems before they become expensive repairs
General Ranch Support
• Engage in equipment operation and maintenance using 75 and 100 horsepower tractors and skid steers. Assist
with animal chores and ranch projects outside the horse operation when needed
• Check gates, water systems, roads, fences, feeders, and ranch facilities
• Help receive feed, hay, bedding, fencing materials, and other supplies
• Maintain clean and organized shops, storage containers, barns, and work areas
• Document completed work and report maintenance needs to ranch management
• Follow ranch safety procedures and equipment operating requirements
• Work cooperatively with management, other employees, and contractors
Requisitos
| Estudios | Secundaria completa (High School/GED) |
|---|---|
| Experiencia | 2 meses |
| Otros requisitos | Necesita licencia de conducir Cargar hasta 75 lb (34 kg) Prueba de drogas Revisión de antecedentes |
This position entails maintaining, monitoring, and working with expensive roping horses.
Heading Horses Training explosive, flat departures out of the box. Perfecting the "run up" to take a correct position on the left side of the steer. Mastering the move to handle cattle smoothly, creating a clean, consistent corner for the heeler.
Heeling Horses Developing a sharp, immediate "stop" or "slide" the moment the rope is thrown. Teaching the horse to track the steer's right hip and maintain proper spacing. Ensuring the horse stays balanced and reads the steer's hips through the turn.
Breakaway / Calf Roping Conditioning horses for maximum explosive speed over short distances. Training a hard, clean "stop" on the hindquarters immediately upon rope release. Teaching horses to work the rope and keep back-tension until the calf is tied or the rope breaks. Random drug testing and/or background checks will be conducted after hire at the employers expense.
Beneficios y condiciones
| Horario | 7:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. |
|---|---|
| Pago | Biweekly |
| Información del salario | na |
| Tipo de vivienda | Employer-provided (including mobile or range) (Shiner, Tx) |
| Vivienda | Single-family home. Built in 2001. 2 bed/1 bath. 2300 SF. Wood exterior. Kitchen contains a cooktop, stove, microwave, refrigerator, all dishes, utensils, and cookware. Laundry facilities on site. 1 fire extinguisher and first aid kit. Living & laundry facilities available. Housing will be clean and in compliance with OSHA Housing Standards at 29 CFR 1910.142 when occupied. Workers will be responsible for maintaining housing in a neat, clean manner. Utilities will be provided. |
| Comidas | The housing unit has a full-size kitchen with a stove, cooktop, and refrigerator. Eating and prep utensils are provided, etc. Workers with valid driver's licenses may be allowed, with the Employer's permission, to use an employer's vehicles, insured by the Employer, with which they transport themselves to/from the grocery store and shop for other supplies any time they wish outside of duty hours. The employer will transport workers without a valid driver's license to/from the grocery store to purchase their food and any other supplies outside of duty hours |
| Transporte diario | 1. If a worksite is not within a 15-minute walking distance each way from the housing site, the employer will transport H2A and US workers to stated worksites each day deemed a workday. Depending on the needs of the worksite, the Employer will pick up workers between 7 - 8 a.m. and provide a return trip to the housing site at 5 p.m. at no cost to the workers. All employer automobiles have passed state inspection, are fully insured, and have sufficient seating with seatbelts for all occupants |
| Viaje hasta el trabajo | INBOUND TRANSPORTATION: H2A and US Workers will be provided inbound transportation from their home country and/or US city in which they live in the most convenient and timely mode for the Employer. The Employer will arrange for the H2A, or US workers' travel ticket. If the Employer does not pre-pay, the Employer will reimburse the H2A or US worker upon or before the completion of 50% of the stated contracted dates of need. |
| Descuentos del salario | • FICA Taxes for U.S. Workers only • FUTA Taxes (as required) for U.S. Workers • Federal Income Tax Withholding (FITW) for U.S. workers (H2A workers will only have federal taxes withheld upon written agreement) • Willful destruction of employer worksite, housing, property, tools, machinery, etc., by either U.S. and H-2A workers • This Employer will withhold the allowed compensation adjustment for housing from H-2A worker wages in employer owned housing. |
| Número de caso | JO-A-300-26292-308006 |
|---|---|
| Ocupación oficial | Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals (45-2093.00) |
| Agente o abogado del empleador | The Bracero Group |
| Publicado el | 30 oct 2026 |