Various locations Uinta, Lincoln, Sweetwater Counties in Wyoming. Required to be available up to 24 hours per day, 7 days a week and spend the majority of workdays on the range. All job duties are closely and directly related to the production of sheep. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to sheep on the range during the winter season: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant ewes using roping methods to gently immobilize animal without causing undue stress; assist with hauling water when winter and drought conditions eliminate natural sources of water for sheep; assist with supplemental feeding (when weather or quality of forage precludes use of range forage); attend to pregnant ewes in cold winter temperatures; break ice over frozen water sources; detect direction from which the wind or prevailing storms are coming to keep ewes gathered and safe; detect through winter tracking methods where other rancher(s)' livestock has been to avoid overgrazing of forage; feed, water and tend to the dogs (both guard and working dogs) and horses; guard against predators prevalent during the winter months using appropriate tracking, trapping, and hunting methods ; herd sheep to appropriate grazing areas using winter trailing methods to avoid undue stress; intensely monitor and treat sheep vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; maintain and set up supply wagon in appropriate direction to provide wind break/shelter/protection for horses & dogs; make sufficient water from snow for horses/dogs at camp; move pregnant ewes at a pace sufficient to ensure they receive ample water/forage during daylight hours before bedding down at night; operate camp stove appropriately to provide/conserve heat in extreme cold/high winds; properly hobble camp horses; properly use/store food supplies for herder/horses/dogs; repair and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; report to employer dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in animal body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition or disease; report to rancher on water/forage/weather conditions; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death. Perform any combination of the following tasks to attend to sheep on the ranch during the winter season: administer emergency minor medical care to sick/injured pregnant ewes using roping methods to gently immobilize animal without causing undue stress; assist in the maintenance of tools, equipment and handling facilities necessary to production; attend to pregnant ewes in cold winter temperatures; break ice over frozen water sources; feed, water and tend to the dogs (both guard and working dogs) and horses; intensely monitor and treat sheep vulnerable to the colder temperatures and sickness; repair and/or maintain fence and facilities to ensure the safety and health of animals and forage; report to employer dehydration & other indicators of deterioration in animal body condition/behavioral changes indicating malnutrition or disease; use proper animal husbandry skill to prevent hypothermia/abortion/death. Required to: perform tasks capably and efficiently without close supervision, spend the majority of work days on the range, live and work singly or in small groups of workers in isolated areas for extended periods of time, to ride, handle and tend horses in a manner to assure the safety and health of the worker, co-workers, horses, dogs and livestock, to operate equipment and machinery required to perform job duties indicated in a safe and responsible manner, to maintain equipment and machinery to a standard established by the employer, work outdoors in all types of weather and may experience occasional exposure to hazards such as poisonous snakes and large game animals, biting insects and extreme temperature, attend animals during all hours of the day as required for their safety and well-being, maintain and manage remote housing locations in a safe and responsible manner, work with, repair and maintain both set field fence and temporary electric fence. All tools, supplies and equipment necessary to perform the duties assigned will be provided at no cost or deposit to the worker. Such items include equipment necessary for handling, treating, moving and protecting livestock, work clothing, footwear and safety gear appropriate for weather conditions and job duties, bedding gear and supplies appropriate for maintaining clean and sanitary housing conditions. Worker will be provided with effective electronic means of communication for work and emergency purposes. For work and emergency purposes, this employer will provide Cell phones. If worker is in an area where electronic communication will not work, the employer or person designated by employer will contact the worker in regular pre-scheduled visits at least every 3 day(s) Workers are required to live on the ranch or on the range. An employer whose itinerary requires mobile housing may provide mobile housing. On ranches with more than one approved housing site, the workers will be required to live at any approved housing site, and to move from site to site as the work requires. An employee may be terminated for just cause. Offenses considered just cause for termination of employment include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) Failure to report to work, excessive absences from work, or leaving the work site without approval; (b) Failure to follow employer's directions. Some examples are: performing job duties in an unsafe manner or failure to accomplish tasks according to designated timetables; (c) Gross negligence or deliberate actions which result in inferior work; waste, damage or injury to employer's property or livestock. Some examples are: failing to respond to livestock needs; abusing animals or equipment; refusing to carry out good faith, reasonable orders; being under the influence of alcohol or drugs; horseplay; (d) Deliberate damage or injury to another worker or co-worker's possessions; (e) Stealing company, ranch, employer or co-worker's property; (f) Possession of firearms or other weapons without employer authorization; or (g) Changing application, or lying on employment application with regard to work experience. The employer will apply these standards uniformly and in a non-discriminatory manner, as required by law. Termination may be carried out by the employer, but only after two written warnings (not necessarily for the same offense). The warnings will be written in a language understandable to the employee and the employee will be given an opportunity to sign the warning. Termination may be carried out without first having issued any warning, if the employee's offense is of a severe or emergency nature such as a threat to the life, safety and /or health of the worker, livestock or others; or, is the intentional destruction of property. If an employee is involuntarily terminated, the worker will be provided a written statement explaining the cause/s for termination. If the employee voluntarily abandons employment before the end of the contract period, or is terminated for cause, and the employer will notify the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Labor notifies the CNPC, and DHS in the case of an H--2A worker, not later than 2 working days after such abandonment occurs. The employer will not be responsible for providing or paying for the subsequent transportation and subsistence expenses of that employee under this section, and that employee is not entitled to the three-fourths guarantee. Abandonment will be deemed to begin after an employee fails to report for work at the regularly scheduled time for 5 consecutive working days without the consent of the employer.