Compensation: Starting at $17 to $22 depending on experience/potential of living on site with your trailer.
Opening for part- time/ full -time position. Retired person or student welcome.
Enjoy a busy but friendly ranch environment and the opportunity work around different breeds of Stallions, Mares and Foals. Looking for someone who is dependable, prompt, hardworking and capable of lifting heavy hay bales.
Horse experience: Turning out of horses for exercise, walking, grooming, holding horses for farrier.
Must be 18 years of age.
References and a valid driver's license required.
Duties will vary according to need but include general ranch work – stall and paddock cleaning, horse feeding, general clean up and maintenance of ranch. Light handyman experience a plus.
Please reply to this ad if interested.
Summary: Under the general supervisor of the Manger, the Ranch-Stable Hand is responsible for watering, feeding, cleaning stalls, and overseeing horses and livestock, and providing routine grounds keeping services.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: include the following. (Other duties may be assigned based experience).
-Feed horses and ranch animals. Ensure horses and livestock receive appropriate hay,
supplemental grains and daily medications, report sick or injured animals to management.
-Clean stalls, pens and shelters daily.
-Cleaning and maintenance paddocks and pastures.
-Seasonal cleaning on large shelters, pastures and large paddocks.
-Clean all water buckets/troughs and feeders as necessary to ensure animals have clean safe drinking water and feed at
all times.
-Maintain clean, clear, raked breezeways, feed and hay storage areas.
-Fill feed grain storage and move hay in front of animal stalls as appropriate.
-Keep barns and stalls clean of cobwebs and other debris.
-Ensure water troughs and sprinklers are working properly and repair as necessary.
-Maintain weed control in and around barns, pens and fences, yard both through manual removal,
eater/mower.
-Conducts emergency fence repair, water line repairs and other miscellaneous minor facility repairs as needed.
-Able to safely operate mowers, skid steer and other ranch equipment.
-Able to perform cleaning maintenance of tractors, quads and other equipment.
-Able to safely use ranch tools and equipment. Keeping tools organized.
-Regular and predicable attendance is required. Ability to get along with and work effectively with others.
-Strong communication skills and ability to work independently with minimal direction.
-Ability to lift and move hay bales, feed bags, panels, and other heavy objects safely into utility vehicles, trailers and
feed bins both by hand and with appropriate equipment.
-Provide humane pest control in the forms of sprays and manual removal of nests (birds, rodents and stinging insects)
and manure (flies).
-Occasional removal of tree limbs and other pasture debris.
-Assist with landscape maintenance as necessary.
-Performs other duties as assigned.
Job Types: Part-time/ Full-time
Pay: $17.00 - $22.00 per hour based on experience.
Schedule:
-Day shift
-Holidays
-Weekend availability
-Weekends only
-Lockwood, CA- Reliably commute
-Horse: 1 year minimum
Work Location: In person