"[POOL] Farm Aide 1"

Job Details

Posting Number: 0601150-NC

Position Type: Classified (Pool)

Position Title: [POOL] Farm Aide 1

Employment Requirement: Criminal Background Check - C4

Division/Department: Agriculture

Location: Albany - LBCC Horse Barn

Job Summary:

Provides assistance in caring for animals. Assists with property/grounds maintenance and farm operations.

Required Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

• 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.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

Physical Skills and Abilities: 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.

Working Conditions: 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). Required to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and/or during college closures.

Essential Duties:

1. Monitors health and well-being of horses located on-site.
2. Performs tasks for feeding horses.
3. Performs barn chores such as cleaning stalls, turning out horses, moving or loading bedding, etc.
4. Assists with providing routine property maintenance, such as cleaning, repairing, maintaining and improving barn and other facilities.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Performs other related duties as assigned.

Applicant Instructions:

Applications submitted to this recruitment pool are reviewed on an as needed basis. Qualified applicants will be contacted when positions become available.

Please complete the online application and upload or attach the following required documents:

1. Resume
2. Cover Letter
3. Unofficial Academic Transcript (if needed to meet minimum qualifications)

Full-time or Part-time: Part-time

Number of hours/week: Varies

Posting Date: 07/13/2024

Open Until Filled: Yes

Salary/Rate: $17.30/hour