A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of workers engaged in tending bands of sheep on range or pasture and keeps them supplied with food and other necessities. Respnsibilities include:

• Designates area to be used by each sheep herder.
• Transports food, drinking water, fuel, mail, animal feed, and other supplies to sheep herder.
• Observes condition of range, water, and animals, and gives directions to sheep herder when to move to another range, reporting findings to owner of band or to livestock rancher.
• Assists in moving camp to another location by hauling supply wagon, using horse or truck.
• Performs duties as described under supervisor master title.
• May substitute for sheep herder during emergencies, vacations, or for other reasons.
• May lamb ewes and drench sheep.