Pen Rider

Overview:
As a Pen Rider, you will be responsible for identifying and applying appropriate treatment to sick cattle ensuring all livestock is handled in a safe, professional and humane manner.

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
• Review daily agenda for cattle movements.
• If shipping, perform and verify head counts, retrieve cattle from all applicable pens and move to scales and shipping pens.
• On horseback, safely ride through pens, inspect cattle and make decisions about pulling animals to be evaluated and treated based off appearance and other signs of illness.
• Evaluate respiratory observe and recovery pens for re-treatment or movement to home pens.
• Gather and move strays back to appropriate lots and pens.
• Notify appropriate personnel regarding dead cattle and repairs or maintenance needed.
• Maintain physical condition of horse(s) and tack.
• Ensure compliance with all OSHA/Safety procedures, rules and regulations.
• Maintain housekeeping of horse barn and tack rooms.
• Maintain inventory of horse feed.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Adequate verbal and written communication skills.
• Adequate mathematical skills:
  Ability to add and subtract, multiply and divide numbers.
• Adequate horsemanship skills
• Knowledge of cattle feedlot industry is highly desirable.
• Willingness to work non-traditional hours as required
• This individual must have the ability to work with a team, or individually.
• Ability to communicate in English is preferred, not required.
• Ability to prioritize tasks when appropriate.

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• You will be required to work at times in extreme weather conditions, such as rain, snow, wind, heat, cold.
• Ability to work nights on occasions, weekends, and holidays.

• Ability to sit in a saddle for long periods of time.
• Ability to work extended hours 10-11 hours per day.
• This individual must be able to lift a minimum of 50 lbs.
• Individual must be able to push, pull, and twist often on horseback.
• Pull oneself up on a horse with just one side of their body (one leg and one arm) 3-4 times per day.
• Must be able to throw a saddle onto a horse (twisting while using force to lift 30-40lb saddle up to eye level)
• Reaching out away from body to pull 8lb gate rods up at a 56 degree angle while sitting on and holding onto a horse 130 times per days.
• Must be able to push gate open from horseback using one arm extended out and away from body while controlling the horse 130 times per day.
• Must be able to perform a higher volume of lifting gate rods and pushing gates open once per week for 3-4 hours when shipping cattle. (Opening 70 more gates on top of the normal 130 opened per day.)
• When applicable during freezing conditions, must be able to mount and unmount horse to break ice.

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• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or 1-3 month's related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Adequate horsemanship skills

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or 1-3 month's related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience working with and identifying sick cattle in a feedlot setting
• Adequate horsemanship skills - feedlot setting

• 401K Company Match
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off(PTO)

Cobalt Cattle Company LLC participates in E-Verify. You must be authorized to work in the United States.

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