Description
Summary:
Seeking an experienced, responsible, and reliable full-time Barn Worker passionate about horses to assist with maintaining facilities and caring for horses.
Highlights:
1. Work with horses in a beautiful, privately owned equestrian facility
2. Join a small barn community as a collaborative team player
3. Opportunity for a long-term position at a farm
Are you passionate about horses? We have a beautiful, privately owned, small equestrian facility and are looking for an experienced, responsible and reliable full-time Barn Worker who can assist with maintaining our horses and facilities.
Our facility is heated with a fully enclosed center aisle barn. We are seeking a highly qualified individual, with exceptional attention to detail, who is searching for a long-term position at a farm.
We are a small barn community and are looking for someone who is a team player and wants to work with others. The ideal candidate enjoys collaboration and conversation – not significant independent work.
Job Duties
· Participate in the continual process of cleaning the facility
· Muck stalls/paddocks
· Feed/water horses/fill hay nets
· Turn horses in/out
· Monitor horses for injury and illness
· Assist with landscaping
· Assist with fence repairs
· Assist with other maintenance projects as needed
Experience required
· 3-5+ years of barn worker experience
· 3-5+ years of handling horses
· Ability to lift 50 pounds with or without assistance
· Must have a valid driver's license
· Willing to learn how to operate a tractor and other small farm machinery
Hours
· 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 1 hour onsite lunch break
· Six days per week (Saturday off)
Benefits
· Salary compensation equal to $20-$24 per hour, dependent on experience
· Weekly payment via check
· Double time pay on major holidays
· Additional compensation negotiable for sharing night check duties