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Top Gun Feeders Inc. (a division of Titan Livestock Group of Companies), located in Moose Jaw, SK, is currently looking for an energetic individual to fill the position of full time Pen Checker.
Responsibilities:
- Daily pen checks to ensure animal health
- Pull sick cattle out of pen to treat
- Responsible for keeping accurate records of all treatments
- Treat all cattle identified as sick using appropriate treatments
- Keep up to date accurate records of all treatments, clean and sanitize equipment.
- Assist with shipping cattle
- Maintain regular bedding of pens with straw or shavings
- Daily checks and regular cleaning of water bowls
- Assist with yard maintenance
- Assist with maintenance and repair of feed bunks and water bowls
- Assist with clean-up of yard, pens, roads, buildings, and fields
Other duties/projects as assigned
Requirements:
- Minimum of 2 years work experience handling cattle, pen-checking, processing and treating cattle is mandatory
- Extensive experience riding horses is required
- Must be able to perform manual physical labour
- Experience operating a UTV required
- Excellent communication and strong organization skills
- Must be self-motivated
- Must have a positive team player attitude
- Must have attention to detail
- Physically fit and able to push, pull, lift up to 50+ lbs and to bend and kneel with comfort
- Must be flexible and able to work longer hours/days during busy seasons
- Excellent command of the English language (reading, writing, oral)
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
Wage is dependent upon experience. We offer competitive benefit package and matching RRSP program.
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Transportation/Travel Information
- Own transportation
Credentials (certificates, licences, memberships, courses, etc.)
- First Aid Certificate
Specific Skills
- Clean stables, barns, barnyards and pens
- Detect disease and health problems in crops, livestock and poultry
Type of Farm Operations
- Livestock
Work Location Information
- Staff accommodation available
Work Conditions and Physical Capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Physically demanding
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Work Site Environment
- Outdoors