Temporary full time for 3 workers from 10/25/2026 to 4/15/2027 Core Job Duties Commodity Batching: Load, weigh, and mix diverse feed commodities (e.g., silage, distillers grains, hay, straw, minerals) to exact nutritional specifications. Feed Distribution: Drive and operate large tractors, feed wagons, and mixing trucks to deliver feed to 7,000 head of cattle. Ration Precision: Adjust feeding amounts continuously based on cattle weight, weather changes, and computer feedback loops. Herd Management: Monitor bunk lines, track feed disappearance, and report cattle behavioral anomalies or signs of illness. Winter Maintenance: Scrape snow from feeding lanes, spread bedding, and break heavy ice in water tanks daily. Technical & Software Requirements Software Competency: Program and operate an on board computerized feeding system (e.g...Performance Beef) to manage rations. Data Entry: Input commodity weights, pen numbers, and dry matter adjustments accurately into the data terminal. Scale Synchronization: Calibrate digital scale heads on mixing wagons to ensure exact ingredient distributions per head. Troubleshooting: Diagnose basic hardware/software communication errors between the office computer and the feed truck scale. Job Requirements & Physical Demands Experience: Minimum of 3 months of verified experience operating agricultural equipment and handling cattle. Driver's License: A valid driver's license is required; must pass an insurable driving record check. Environmental Tolerance: Must work outdoors daily in Montana's extreme sub-zero winter temperatures, deep snow, and heavy mud. Physical Strength: Ability to lift up to 100 pounds, climb high bunk ladders, and engage in continuous bending, lifting, and crouching. Language Skills: Basic English literacy is required to read chemical labels, input computer data, and comprehend safety protocols. Workers will perform specialized commodity feeding and livestock maintenance duties for a 7,000-head cattle feedlot operation during the winter containment season. Duties include loading, weighing, and batching bulk commodities (silage, distillers grains, hay, straw, and mineral supplements) into feed mixers according to strict nutritional formulas. Worker must operate complex on board computerized feeding systems to input raw commodity weights, adjust dry matter percentages, and track bunk line consumption data per pen. Worker will drive and operate heavy agricultural machinery, including high-horsepower tractors, feed mixing wagons, trucks, and skid steers. Daily physical tasks include driving bunk lines, monitoring cattle for illness or injury, spreading straw bedding, scraping deep snow from alleyways, hauling manure, and clearing heavy ice blocks from stock water tanks in sub-zero temperatures. Must be able to work outdoors in extreme Montana winter weather. Requires 3 months of verified livestock and heavy machinery experience. Must possess or be able to obtain a valid driver's license. In view of the statutorily established basic function of the Employment Service (ES) as a no-fee labor exchange that is as a forum for bringing together employers and job seekers, neither the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) nor the State Workforce Agencies (SWA) are guarantors of the accuracy or truthfulness of information contained on job orders submitted by employers. Nor does any job order accepted or recruited upon by the ES constitute a contractual job offer to which the ETA or a SWA is in any way a party. To apply, applicants must provide their full name and contact information. Only those applicants who meet all the special requirements for employment and who are ready, able, willing and qualified to perform the work, who are eligible for employment in the United States, and who will be available at the time and place needed, should apply. Interested applicants and the State Workforce Agency may call between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM, Mon. thru Fri. MST. Applic nts may apply by visiting the local State Workforce Agency to submit their application and be advised of the terms, conditions and qualifications for the job, pursuant to 20 CFR 655.155. Applicants must provide the name, and working telephone number of the previous employer being used as a reference (the reference must be able to verify the workers experience in the occupation for which the worker is applying). If hired, the applicant must be able to provide U.S. employment eligibility and/or identification documents in verification of the applicants right to work in the U.S. The employer will complete the Employment Eligibility Verification Form (I-9) on each worker. The employer may be reached by the State Workforce Agency. For more information on this job opportunity, contact your local Job Service Office or Job Service Miles City 12 North 10th St. Miles City, MT 59301 406-232-8340