What are the responsibilities and job description for the Ranch Hand position at Flying T Ranch?
Job Summary
Flying T Ranch is looking for a dependable ranch hand to join our family ranch in Southern Oregon. We are about 35 miles from Klamath Falls. We are blessed to live in a beautiful area with gorgeous scenery, mountains and valleys, trees and water. There are plenty of recreational opportunities in our area as well from hunting and fishing to hiking and exploring. We are a cow/calf operation that runs around 500 cows along with yearlings and bulls. We do most of our cattle work with four wheelers. We also have a side business of selling beef.
This is a hands-on job where you could be operating farm equipment, maintaining and repairing equipment, running flood irrigation, feeding livestock, helping with calving season and cattle vaccinations through the year, making hay, transporting livestock, keeping the shop organized while helping with daily operations, maintenance and repairs of a ranch. Welding skills are helpful!
You must have a valid drivers license and a clean driving record. We are looking for someone hard working, honest, reliable, willing to work with others and alone and with a good attitude. A perfect fit for us would be a motivated person who has a passion for the ranching lifestyle and preferably someone who can perform some repairs on ranch equipment. Calving experience would be ideal as well but not necessarily a requirement.
Housing and beef is provided. We have a nice 2 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath stick built house available for a single person or a family. Horses and dogs are okay if they are well mannered.
Jobs duties may include but are not limited to :
Feeding cows
shop jobs (welding, cleaning, vehicle and equipment maintenance and repairs)
Calving (cold weather calving experience preferred)
Irrigating (all flood irrigation)
Branding and vaccinating cattle
Stock trailering cows to and from summer pastures and to the slaughterhouse
Making hay (cutting, raking, baling, and hauling hay off fields (round bales), repairing broken haying equipment)
General ranch maintenance
Salary is negotiable and depends on skill/experience
This is a full time position for the right person or family.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00 per month
Work Location: In person
Salary : $2,000 - $3,000