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Lolo Trail Ranch
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Location
Lolo, MT
Job Type
Full Time or Seasonal
Salary
$15/hr
Date Posted
February 21, 2020
Housing Offered
No
Experience
0-2 yrs
Ranch Hands are responsible for helping with all different aspects of ranch operations.
Essential Functions:
Day-to-Day Operations of Cattle
- Continuously treating the animals with respect
- Maintain observation for health issues
- Satisfactory performing doctoring duties
- Rotating stock through pastures
- Restock mineral supplements
- Preform calving duties
- Willingness to learn calf delivery techniques
- Maintaining calf health and growth
- Calculating feed rations for cattle
- Delivering feed to various groups of cattle around ranch
- Maintaining comprehensive and current records of cattle health and condition
Equipment Operation
- Safely operate equipment from chippers to farm tractors
- Maintenance duties on all motorized equipment
- Routine feedings with grinders and mixers
- Unloading feed trucks with hay or grain
- All aspects of Haying
- Safely operate trucks, 4-wheelers and other various equipment
Pasture maintenance and irrigation
- Effectively running wheelines
- Routinely starting electric pumps
- Farming and reseeding fields
- Maintaining landscaping including spraying weeds
- Repairing underground irrigation mainlines
- Winterizing all irrigation equipment
- Fencing including wire, rail, and steel repair
Job Specifications / qualifications
Skills-Required
- High school degree or equivalent
- Associate’s Degree in Agriculture or related field is highly recommended or 3 years of experience
- Self-starter, highly motivated, and able to complete projects with limited or no direct supervision once trained
- Desire to improve processes and efficiency throughout the operation
- Possess the ability for strategic planning for the future of the operation and ability to see projects through to completion
- Ability to work long hours (80+ hours per week during peak seasons which include planting and harvest)
- Ability to work well with others and possess good communication skills
- A CDL (Commercial Driver’s License) would be helpful, but not required
- Ability to artificially inseminate would be helpful, but not required
- Noxious weed applicator Lic. Would be helpful, but not required
- The ability to saddle and ride horses long distances
- Satisfactory background check
Physical Requirements
- Regularly exposed to outdoor weather conditions, 100+degrees to -30
- The noise level is usually moderate but can occasionally be loud.
- Must be able to stand, kneel, crouch and crawl.
- Must occasionally lift/ move up to 100 pounds with assistance
- Equal Opportunity Employer
Qualified candidates please forward bio & resume to our email address. Or fax to: 847-537-8220
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