This role requires a combination of animal care, facility maintenance, team management, and customer service skills to ensure the smooth operation of the stable and the well-being of the animals.
Hours: M-F, 7-4pm (additional weekend hours as needed)
Rate of Pay $21-$25/hr
Location: Hampton, VA
Position Responsibilities:
- Assist with the feeding, cleaning, and supplement schedules for all animals
- Daily exercise of horses and other animals
- Hold horses for veterinary care and farrier services
- Maintain a clean and organized stable area, including regular facility upkeep
- Groom and bathe animals as required to ensure proper care and hygiene
- Monitor horses for health, soundness, and overall well-being
- Assist with breeding and foaling activities
- Provide support for handling and managing problem animals
- Manage and oversee a team to ensure high-quality standards are consistently met
- Take a proactive approach to managing daily operations within the scope of authority
- Maintain excellent internal and external customer relations, fostering a customer-centric environment
- Identify issues and act as a solution provider to resolve challenges
- Perform other related duties as assigned to support the operation of the facility
Position Qualifications/Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: Must have prior experience and demonstrated knowledge of equine care.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: None needed.
REASONING ABILITY - Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions: to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to learn basic principles and techniques. Also, the ability to perceive identification numbers marked on material: to read and understand numbers and volumes.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle or feel, and reach with arms and hands. The employee is required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee is occasionally required to talk or hear. The employee must lift/move up to 50 pounds. The employee is required to work in various temperatures from hot to cold. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, ability to adjust focus, and distance vision acuity to operate mobile equipment.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: Exposure to a wide variety of inside and outside conditions working in the outdoors with animals. Exposure to dust from horses bedding made of wood shavings and dust from hay. Gloves and other protective equipment required for specific maintenance duties.
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The Budd Group Inc. is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law or regulation. #LI-DNI
