General Farm Worker
Employer: Alleman Cattle Company
Location: Rayne, LA
Workers needed: 2
Pay: $15.81/hour
Season: Jan 1, 2027 – Oct 31, 2027
Experience: 2 months
Employer-provided housing; Transportation provided/reimbursed
The job
General workers will perform duties that involve tending to livestock, cleaning pens, treating sick animals, sorting cattle and operating equipment for the needs of the operation. Additional equipment operated will be for transporting feed and /or cattle. Various equipment will include but is not limited to skid loaders, backhoes, forklifts, and heavy-duty trucks. Workers will be expected to perform repairs and maintenance of sheds, fences, gates, barns, and equipment used in day to day operations. Workers will be required to use hand tools to repair, clean, and maintain vehicles and agricultural equipment necessary to livestock duties. Duties will include building and maintaining fences, gates, barns, and shop buildings; use of shovel/scoops, wheelbarrows; cleaning stalls; climbing ladders, if necessary.
Housing: Employer-provided (including mobile or range)
Meals: Employer will provide free and convenient cooking and kitchen facilities so that entitled workers may prepare their own meals. In addition, employer will provide entitled worker with transportation to town so that the worker may purchase supplies and/or for banking purposes. The use of this employer provided weekly transportation is voluntary and no worker is required to utilize the services offered by employer. The kitchen facilities may be shared. Employer will also provide cooking, food preparation and serving utensils along with housing and utilities to workers who are unable to return to their place of residents the same day, at no cost to worker. Should employer utilize rental and/or public accommodations employer attest that such housing will be in compliance with all local, state or federal housing safety standards. All rental housing charges will be paid for by employer directly to owner/operator of accommodations.
Transport: Transportation and daily travel subsistence provided according to regulations. The employer will reimburse the worker for the costs incurred by the worker for visa MRV applications fees, (if not previously paid by employer) border crossing fees, transportation costs and reasonable subsistence from the place from which the worker came to work for the employer to the place of employment to the extent that such worker-borne expenditures reduce the workers FLSA earnings at the first pay period,
Experience wanted: 2 months
General workers are needed for tending to livestock, cleaning pens, treating sick animals, sorting cattle and operating equipment for the needs of the operation. Additional equipment operated will be for transporting feed and /or cattle. Various equipment will include but is not limited to skid loaders, backhoes, forklifts, and heavy-duty trucks. Workers will be expected to perform repairs and maintenance of sheds, fences, gates, barns, and equipment used in day to day operations. Workers will be required to use hand tools to repair, clean, and maintain vehicles and agricultural equipment necessary to livestock duties. Duties will include building and maintaining fences, gates, barns, and shop buildings; use of shovel/scoops, wheelbarrows; cleaning stalls; climbing ladders, if necessary. Employees must have or be able to obtain a drivers license within 30 days of hire; have 2 months experience; and basic English literacy, reading and math skills.
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