Investment Jobs in Alabama

Job Title: 45-2093.00: Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

NOTE: All months below include the following, as time allows or as deemed necessary for maximum efficiency.

Cattle Herd Duties

• Daily Cattle Checks: Use a pickup truck or service truck to check cattle daily, ensuring they have adequate feed, water, and are in good health.
• Daily feeding, make sure all cows and calves eat and drink every day
• Tag and vaccinate calves as directed
• Graft calves onto available cows as appropriate
• Wean replacement heifers – feed daily
• Assist in breeding and pregnancy testing cows as directed
• Assist in maintaining records for deworming, vaccinations, breeding, and birth dates
• Assist in transporting sales stock
• Clean and maintain the animal housing - cleaning stalls and chutes and removing animal waste
• Take advice from animal nutritionists and livestock feed sales representatives to create balanced rations for their herd.
• Branding
• Assist in Pasture moves as necessary
• Calving Assistance: Help with late-season calving by tagging calves, monitoring cow and calf health, and ensuring animal safety.

Harvest Duties

• Harvest Support – Grain Handling: Operate combines to harvest crops. Drive tractors pulling grain carts to transport harvested grain from the combine to awaiting semi-trucks. Operate semi-trucks or assist with loading grain into semi-trucks, which will then haul grain to on-farm storage bins or the local grain elevator.
• Baling hay or harvesting other forage for use as feed until green grass arrives
• Harvest Operations: Continue to operate combines, tractors with grain carts, and assist with grain transport and unloading

General Duties

• Repair and Maintenance on ditches, head gates, pipes, and water system, equipment, fences, and buildings.
• Prepare the equipment, machinery, pens, stalls, and corrals needed throughout the season, necessary to perform all duties.
• Fencing Maintenance: Continue maintenance and repair of fencing as needed to contain and protect livestock.
• Equipment Maintenance: Perform maintenance and basic repairs on combines, tractors, grain carts, and semi-trucks to ensure machinery is in proper working condition for harvest operations.
• Cattle & Fence Preparation: Inspect and repair fencing in preparation for moving cattle to new pastures following harvest.

Driving Duties

Parkman Investments, LLC is a row crop (corn, soybeans, and wheat) and livestock operation located in rural Alabama. Given the size and spread of the operation, driving is an essential skill required of all farm employees. Workers must be capable of operating vehicles and equipment safely to:

• Pick up agricultural parts and supplies from various vendors
• Deliver grain to local elevators
• Assist in transporting grain from the field to on-farm grain bins

Due to the rural setting and scale of operations, the ability to drive farm equipment and on-road vehicles is critical to maintaining efficient harvest and operational logistics.

Physical Requirements:

Workers may be required to handle products weighing up to 75 pounds and lift to a height of 5 feet. The job involves working on their feet in bent positions for long periods, repetitive movements, and extensive walking, stooping, and bending over. Work is required in fields when plants are wet with dew and rain, and may be needed during light rain, snow, moderate winds, direct sun, high humidity, and extreme temperatures. Temperatures in fields during working hours can range from 10 to over 100 degrees F. Workers may be required to work during occasional showers not severe enough to stop field operations. Allergies to ragweed, goldenrod, honeybees, insecticides, herbicides, fungicides, or related chemicals may affect a worker's job.