Horse Farm Assistant

Auburn University


Place Particulars
Place Data

Requisition Quantity S3357P
Residence Org Title Veterinary Drugs Administration
Division Title Faculty of Veterinary Drugs
Place Title Horse Farm Assistant
Job Class Code ID01 (B-D)
Appointment Standing Full-time
Half-time FTE
Restricted Time period Sure
Restricted Time period Size 8 years
Job Abstract That is an eight-year restricted time period appointment. Continuation of employment is contingent upon availability of funds.
Two positions can be found

Farm Assistant
The Faculty of Veterinary Drugs seeks candidates for a Farm Assistant to carry out basic building and upkeep of farm tools and services that help routine look after animals. This place is a unbelievable alternative for people who get pleasure from working outdoor, being round livestock, and all of the powerful jobs concerned in farm work. This place requires frequent handbook labor. The profitable candidate ought to have expertise working with horses (both professionally or personally) and have information of farm tools operation. Expertise and luxury with dealing with horses in addition to an understanding of horse conduct is important to success on this position.
What does a typical day on this place seem like?
Every morning, the farm assistant will collect horses to get them prepared for plasma assortment. The horses are taken right into a room for prep and the farm assistant secures the horse whereas the techs work. Horses are then returned to the pasture so prep for the subsequent day’s remedy might be executed. Afternoons are all about farm upkeep, together with working a tractor, bushhog, and mower. Different afternoon duties embrace repairing fences, gates, troughs, and unloading hay and different provides.
Why work as a Farm Assistant?

  • You’ll get to work outdoors on the “Loveliest Village on the Plains”
  • You’ll make an influence supporting the care of animals and the work the Faculty of Veterinary Drugs performs!
  • Constructed-in promotional alternatives based mostly on efficiency (progressing by means of job ranges I, II, III, and IV)!
  • Tuition advantages for your self and your dependents after a yr of employment!
  • Regular employment, state advantages, and a spot you may construct a profession!

Formal AU title: Tech, Ag-Vet Med
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Important Features
  • Each day horse dealing with is a serious part of this place together with however not restricted to catching, haltering, main, and releasing.
  • Performs basic building and upkeep of farm tools, constructions, and grounds to incorporate, however not restricted to, fences, stalls, barns, roads, ponds, farm buildings, and garden/subject care.
  • Supplies routine animal care similar to day by day feeding, watering, cleansing/sanitation of stalls and barns, rotational grazing, monitoring well being and security of animals, and transportation of animals to correct location.
  • Could deal with pesticides, herbicides, and dangerous chemical substances on a staff or alone.

Minimal {Qualifications}

Minimal {Qualifications} Degree II: Highschool diploma or equal plus 1 yr of related expertise.
Degree III: Highschool diploma or equal plus 4 years of related expertise.
Degree IV: Highschool diploma or equal plus 6 years of related expertise.
Substitutions allowed for Expertise:
When a candidate has the required training, however lacks the required expertise, they could usually apply further acceptable training towards the expertise requirement, at a price of 1 (1) yr related training per yr of required expertise.

Minimal Expertise, License, and Certifications

Minimal Expertise and Talents
  • Working with equine species is bodily demanding and requires working within the components, in addition to threat of harm with warning required.
  • Commonly includes lifting, bending or different bodily exertion. Typically uncovered to a number of components similar to warmth, chilly, noise, mud, dust, chemical substances, and many others., with one typically to the purpose of being objectionable.
  • Routine deadlines; normally enough lead time; variance in work quantity seasonal and predictable; priorities might be anticipated; some interruptions are current; includes occasional publicity to calls for and pressures from individuals apart from quick supervisor.
  • Job often requires standing, strolling, reaching, speaking, listening to, dealing with objects with fingers, and lifting as much as 50 kilos.
  • Job often requires sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping/kneeling/crouching/crawling, and lifting greater than 100 kilos.
  • Imaginative and prescient necessities: Capacity to see info in print and/or electronically.
Minimal Know-how Expertise
Minimal License and Certifications Possession of a sound driver’s license

Desired {Qualifications}

Desired {Qualifications} Capacity to acquire a pesticide license could also be required in particular positions.

Posting Element Data

Wage Vary $31,200 – $43,500
Job Class Agricultural/Veterinary Drugs
Working Hours if Non-Conventional It is a rotating shift with typical hours of seven:00 am – 4:00 p.m. (contains weekends and holidays)
Metropolis place is positioned in: Auburn
State place is positioned: Alabama
Checklist any hazardous circumstances or bodily calls for required by this place
Posting Date 01/30/2024
Closing Date
EEO Assertion Auburn College is dedicated to an inclusive and various campus atmosphere. Girls, underrepresented teams, people with disabilities and veterans are inspired to use.
AUBURN UNIVERSITY IS AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER. It’s our coverage to offer equal employment alternatives for all people with out regard to race, intercourse, faith, colour, nationwide origin, age, incapacity, protected veteran standing, genetic info, sexual orientation, gender identification, or every other classification protected by relevant legislation.
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