Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates safe practices and compliance with ranch rules at all times
• Maintains grounds: mows, prunes, trims, waters and landscapes
• Builds and repairs fences
• Harvests hay
• Maintains ranch buildings, ranch equipment (bulldozers, tractor, etc.) trucks, trailers, barn and barn equipment (i.e., tack, manure spreader, vacuum, blower, wheelbarrows, etc.)

Other Job Responsibilities:

• Flexibility to provide on-duty coverage on weekends on rotational basis or with other days off, as needed and arranged; 8-12 hour days
• Maintains employer and employee confidence by keeping information confidential
• Clean DPS record
• Ability to lift 50 lbs and perform strenuous outdoor activities
• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as need

• Prior ranch hand and/or grounds keeping experience
• Skill set should include the ability to operate ranch equipment (bulldozer, tractor, etc.)
• Personal skills – ability to communicate well with others, give instruction, take instruction, affectively and rationally deal with conflicts /deadlines
• Dependability, punctuality, good character and good health
• Knowledge of all animals living on property (horses, cattle and other animals brought in)
• Works on every project with an eye for detail

Physical Requirements:

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must repeatedly sit, stand, stoop, speak, listen, walk and use hands to seize, grip, hold, reach, turn, lift, or carry objects 50 lbs. or less, and use equipment requiring high dexterity
• The employee must have the ability to safely use basic ranch tools and equipment
• Workload ranges to moderate to strenuous
• The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Specific hearing and vision abilities required by this job include good hearing and good near and distant vision.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job, which is that of a general farm environment.
• The noise level in the work environment is generally quiet but occasionally noisy depending on machine operating.