Job Details
Posting Number: 0601017-NC Position Type: Classified Pools Position Title: Farm Aide 1 Horse Barn, Part-time Employment Requirement Not Applicable Division/Department: Agricultural Sciences Location Albany - LBCC Horse Barn Job Summary:
This pool has been established to accept applications for possible openings for part-time employment that may arise throughout the year. Provides assistance in caring for animals. Assists with property/grounds maintenance and farm operations.
Required Qualifications:
Requires experience handling horses. Must have experience working with farm tools, machinery and equipment, and doing basic facility maintenance.
Certificates: Requires current first aid and CPR cards, or must obtain within 60 days of employment.
Knowledge and Skills: Must have good communication skills to interact with co-workers, college staff and students. Must be knowledgeable and highly skilled in handling and caring for horses. Must be familiar with rules and procedures and emergency protocol of a horse facility. Requires skills in operating farm tools, machinery, and equipment, and knowledge of general maintenance and repair.
Abilities: Requires the ability to learn, understand and follow procedures, rules and protocol. Requires ability to work independently. Must have the ability to operate farm tools, machinery and equipment (shovel, rake, wheelbarrow, tractor, etc.) Requires the ability to handle large, live animals.
Preferred Qualifications: Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:
Requires good hand-eye coordinator and manual dexterity sufficient to operate hand tools, machines and equipment. Considerable physical effort including lifting over 50 pounds (bales, other), and working with large animals. Requires ability to bend, climb, kneel, stoop, crouch, balance, guide, reach, etc. Must have visual acuity to read words and numbers and operate equipment. Requires ability to walk and stand for extended periods of time.
Work is performed outdoors and in outdoor structures (horse barns) in a farm setting with exposure to inclement weather. Some exposure to safety or health hazards (equipment noise, odor, manure, blood and fluids, farm chemicals).
Essential Duties:
Monitors health and well-being of horses located on-site.
Performs tasks for feeding horses.
Performs barn chores such as cleaning stalls, turning out horses, moving or loading bedding, etc.
Assists with providing routine property maintenance, such as cleaning, repairing, maintaining and improving barn and other facilities.
Assists with farm operations as needed, i.e., maintaining college fields (plowing and disking, leveling, planting, fertilizing, harvesting and maintaining various field crops, cutting, raking, bailing). Repairs horse stalls and paddock, drags arenas. Repairs and moves fences, etc.
Acts as liaison and handles situations as previously instructed and set forth in Center procedures, rules and protocol for both emergency and non emergency situations. Refers problems to Faculty or Instructional Specialist.
Applicant Instructions:
Applications are reviewed for minimum qualifications. In order to be considered, your application must clearly show you meet the minimum qualifications for this position.
U.S. Veterans will need to attach proof of honorable discharge (Form DD-214) to their application to qualify for veteran's consideration.
Proposed Start Date: Full-time or Part-time Part-time Number of hours/week: 16 Work Schedule: Varies 16 hrs/week Posting Date: 07/01/2023 Closing Date: 06/30/2024 Open Until Filled: Yes Special Notes to Applicants:
As a condition of employment, all new employees are required to be compensated via direct deposit.
LBCC is an Equal Opportunity Educator and Employer.
Offers of employment are contingent on the applicant having Oregon residency at the time work commences.
Salary Grade FRM Salary/Rate
$15.78