Cattle Supervisor

Oversees entire Cattle Department to ensure optimal animal health and welfare of cattle, providing leadership consistent with Dinklage purpose statement and goals. Provides leadership within the cattle department training, supervising, evaluating, and educating team members. Promotes purpose driven culture in Cattle Department and across organization to promote why we do what we do. Meets with veterinarian consultant to ensure optimal animal health and welfare of cattle. Communicates goals from veterinarian consultant across the department. Rides a horse through pens daily standing up every animal to determine its condition. Organizes and oversees the identification of sick animals.Doctors daily pulls within protocols set by Dinklage and Feed Yard Veterinarian. Makes decisions regarding animal health taking appropriate course of action to treat cattle. Returns treated cattle to home pens daily after treatment. Oversees the inspection of water tanks, pens, fences, and gates daily. Oversees accurate head count in all hospitals, railer, long bred, and buller pens; oversees moving and weighing railers and posting deads. Oversees the shipping and sorting of cattle. Assists in gathering cattle from large pens for processing. Oversees doctoring facilities, horse barns, and horse pens maintaining overall cleanliness of all facilities. Responsible for proper care and nutrition of own horses. Leadership, teamwork, communication, and efficiency are required as well as assisting in various departments of the feed yard when necessary. Acts as a leader of the Dinklage safety program implementing policies and procedures and keeps up to date with safety regulations and requirements. Professionalism is expected including courtesy and respect to team members, customers, and vendors.

Experience Level : 5 years of experience required

References : References required

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