Description
Type: Full-Time / Year-Round or Seasonal Non-Exempt
Position Overview
Antone Ranch is seeking a hardworking, versatile, and dependable Ranch Hand to join our team. This role is a blend of traditional livestock work and intensive land and asset management. The successful candidate will be someone who thrives in the outdoors, values a "team-first" mentality, and is equally capable of working alongside a crew or tackling independent projects across our expansive acreage.
Key Responsibilities
- Irrigation Management: Daily operation and maintenance of diverse systems, including flood, wheel line, hand line, and center pivot irrigation.
- Livestock & Pasture: Assist with pasture rotations across large-scale terrain. Moving cattle effectively via foot, ATV, and horseback is required.
- Infrastructure & Fencing: Build new fence lines and perform essential repairs to maintain property boundaries and grazing rotations.
- Asset Maintenance: Provide proactive care and repair for all ranch assets, including buildings, road systems, irrigation equipment, and machinery.
- Land Stewardship: Clear trails and remove downed timber/trees to ensure property access and safety.
- Wildland Firefighting: Willing and able to assist with initial response to wildfire and support wildfire personnel as needed.
- Other related job duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Experience: Proven work history in farming, ranching, or a related heavy-labor industry
- Physical Capability: Ability to perform strenuous physical labor in all weather conditions (heat, snow, and high-desert wind)
- Technical Skills: Experience with ATVs and basic mechanical aptitude; proficiency in horseback riding for cattle work is highly preferred
- Availability: Must be willing to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, as the seasonal needs of the ranch dictate
- Mindset: A self-starter who takes pride in "leaving it better than you found it" and communicates well within a team environment.
What We Offer
- A dynamic work environment on a premier Eastern Oregon ranch.
- The opportunity to work with a dedicated team committed to the Western way of life.
- Full/Time Year Round - Competitive compensation, medical, dental, vision benefits, paid time off, holiday pay, and 401(k) company contribution.
- Seasonal – Competitive compensation.