Couple / Managers needed at 2k-acre Private Ranch in northern New Mexico

Private

Email

[email protected]

Location

northern NM

Job Type

Full Time, Year round

Salary

To be discussed, dependent upon skills and experience

Posted

December 8, 2025

Housing Offered

Yes

Experience

10+ yrs

How to Apply

Via Email

• Seeking a mature ranch couple who love wild lands and animals, and are looking for long term employment.  Please, this is a job for a couple (of any kind), who can work and live together.
• Care and maintenance of an isolated <2,000 acre ranch (Wild Life Refuge) in Northern New Mexico, between Santa Fe and Taos, at a high elevation. Owners don’t hunt, the ranch is a Wild Life Sanctuary. They live and work remotely from there, but they travel (mostly work-related), and the property requires constant extensive upkeep.
• It is a beautiful place but the Fall and Winter climate can be extreme, and the couple must be comfortable working outdoors to deal with horses, and maintenance issues and challenges that will arise.
• Experience with horses is essential. We have a few delightful, cooperative horses that require daily cleaning and care (also on weekends and holidays, but in the morning only), and dogs.
• We will provide spacious, high-quality, private housing with views.
• A variety of handy skills, physical strength, mechanical skills, and housekeeping and cooking skills (very important) are necessary.
• Ability to operate (and basic maintenance) of machinery, like ATV’s, UTV’s, installing tracks, a tractor with attachments (hay swather, raker, and baler to harvest hay for horses), a small backhoe, chain saw, splitter, snow blowers, solar gates, etc. is necessary.
• Ability to build and maintain wire and wood fencing.
• Knowledge of basic carpentry, plumbing, electrical systems, and everyday ranch hand tools.
• Routine fire mitigation – chain saw dead trees for firewood.
• Keeping driveways and courtyards plowed in winter using tractor and snow blowers.
• Trail maintenance with chainsaw (for hiking).
• Runs to town for supplies, airport pickup, etc.
• Foreign couples with legal green card status welcome

TO APPLY:

Forward cover letter & resume to our email address.

Email
[email protected]

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