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Salary: $24-$29/hour
Join our team! Work closely with cattle, pigs, sheep, and goats, assisting with feeding, care, and health checks. With 3-4 years of ranch experience, fluency in English and Spanish, and a knack for teamwork, you're the ideal candidate. Join our dedicated team and embrace the ranching lifestyle!
Responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Assist with livestock care, including cattle, pigs, sheep, and goat herds, encompassing tasks such as pasture movement, feeding, watering, and sorting for tagging, castration, vaccination, etc.
- Assist in administering medications, vaccinations, or insecticides.
- Administer IM, SubQ, and IV shots.
- Monitoring Sheep/Goat health and wellness
- Assist with lambing and kidding season.
- Clean and maintain the sheep/livestock areas.
- Assist in maintaining and setting up farm/ranch structures, equipment (e.g., buildings, fences including electric single line, electric portable, and barbed wire), and irrigation (properly water pastures using wheel-line and handset irrigation).
- Operate ATVs, trucks and forklift
- Apply herbicide and maintain the landscape.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- At least 3-4 years of experience and knowledge working on a ranch.
- Livestock and pasture experience, including lambing/kidding. (Holistic Management knowledge preferred).
- Knowledge of safe work practices around horses and other livestock
- Experience in monitoring animal appearance/behavior and communicating any necessary information to superiors.
- Must be 18 or older, have proof of authorization to work in the United States and clear a background check.
- Bilingual: Spanish (Fluent) and English (Fluent)
- Work effectively with minimal supervision, self-motivated and self-starter
- Physical requirements
- Ability to work outdoors, on uneven, slippery terrain in varying weather conditions with dust and allergens
- Ability to twist, bend, kneel, climb, lift 100 lbs., and use hand tools as necessary
- Strong commitment to teamwork
- Ability to adhere to the organization's policies, procedures and regulation.
