Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates safe practices and compliance with ranch rules at all times

• Maintains grounds: mows, prunes, trims, waters and landscapes

• Builds and repairs fences

• Harvests hay

• Maintains ranch buildings, ranch equipment (bulldozers, tractor, etc.) trucks, trailers, barn and barn equipment (i.e., tack, manure spreader, vacuum, blower, wheelbarrows, etc.)

• Assist with maintenance and management of water development on the ranch

• Predator control of feral hogs and coyotes

• Clean up and beautification of ranch

• Application of herbicides to manage habitat, fencerows, and water traps

• Maintenance and upkeep of ranch equipment, vehicles,  and vehicles, and facilities

• Heavy equipment operation and maintenance (tractors, skid steers, backhoe’s)

• Fence construction, repair, and maintenance

• Assist with any and other ranch activities as assigned by ranch manager to aid in the development and startup process of ranching and wildlife operations

Other Job Responsibilities: 

• Flexibility to provide on-duty coverage on weekends on rotational basis or with other days off, as needed and arranged; 8-12 hour days

• Maintains employer and employee confidence by keeping information confidential

• Clean DPS record

• Ability to lift 50 lbs and perform strenuous outdoor activities

• Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed