Feedlot Operations
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Job Title: Feedlot OperationsGeneral Description of Job:? Performing daily tasks for operations and maintenance of a cattle feedlot.? Daily tasks include animal feeding, animal health, pen maintenance and equipment maintenance.Essential Duty (35%) Individual Animal TreatmentTasks: Identifying individually sick animals accurately and efficiently.Pulling correct animals from pen with good animal husbandry and administering correct medication at accurate levels.Keeping accurate and complete records for individual animals including using treatment tags and filling out a treatment log.Maintain open and positive communication with other staff in areas of individual animal treatment.?Essential Duty (25%) Animal FeedingTasks: Properly mixing feedstuffs to create a correct total mix ration.Consistently distributing a total mix ration accurately and efficiently to appropriate pens at the proper time.Maintain feeding equipment in good, clean serviceable working condition.Maintain open and positive verbal and written communication with other staff in areas of animal feeding.??Essential Duty (15%) Mass Processing of AnimalsTasks: For newly received cattle, administering proper processing protocols based on animal weight, type and gender using good animal husbandry practices.Using correct medicines at appropriate levels.Maintain process facilities in good, clean serviceable working condition.?Essential Duty (15%) Pen MaintenanceTasks: Keeping pens clean and well maintained including manure/snow removal, hauling clay back in around aprons, fences and mounds. Keeping waterers and bunks cleaned and maintained.Keeping fences, windbreaks, and shades in good repair.Mow and spray to keep unwanted weeds and grass at tolerable level.Maintain sediment basins for proper water removal.Maintaining equipment in good, serviceable working condition.Maintain open and positive communication with other staff in areas of pen maintenance.??Essential Duty (10%)? Animal sorting, loading and unloadingTasks:Sorting, loading and unloading of both cattle and hogs using proper animal husbandry practices.Communication with office personal and drivers to ensure proper documentation, head counts, and weights.?Nonessential FunctionsOther duties as assigned.?