What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cattle Manager position at Beef Northwest?
Beef Northwest is hiring a
Cattle Manager in
Boardman, OR to lead feedyard cattle health and care operations, overseeing pen riders, processing activities, and daily cattle movements while working closely with veterinary and yard leadership.
Description
The Cattle Manager will be directly responsible for the care and health of all feedyard cattle, as well as all activities relating to cattle, including the transmittal of appropriate paperwork. You will lead and work with the pen riders and custom processing crew, while supervising employee adherence to company policies, and preparing employee performance reviews of cattle department employees. You will be responsible for assisting all medicine and processing pharmaceuticals and supply inventories, including product usage and inventory control. You will work closely with the Yard Manager, Assistant Manager, Feeding Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, and consulting veterinarian.
Specific Job Functions:
Essential
Requirements
Qualifications:
Compensation: We offer a very competitive wage and excellent benefits that include family health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with match, and paid vacation.
Description
The Cattle Manager will be directly responsible for the care and health of all feedyard cattle, as well as all activities relating to cattle, including the transmittal of appropriate paperwork. You will lead and work with the pen riders and custom processing crew, while supervising employee adherence to company policies, and preparing employee performance reviews of cattle department employees. You will be responsible for assisting all medicine and processing pharmaceuticals and supply inventories, including product usage and inventory control. You will work closely with the Yard Manager, Assistant Manager, Feeding Supervisor, Maintenance Supervisor, and consulting veterinarian.
Specific Job Functions:
Essential
- Supervises cattle movements including movements from home pasture to hospital, pasture backs. Supervises reconciliation of the hospital.
- Supervises veterinary treatment of sick cattle by Cattle Doctor and treatment entry into the vet computer system. Oversees treatment regimes, cattle health, and sick animal recovery.
- This position will be boots on the ground, leading and communicating with the teams to meet day-to-day operational goals.
- Oversee and support when shipping and receiving cattle. Evaluates condition, type and background of cattle and writes receiving forms. Communicates cattle receivings to all affected feedyard staff.
- Prepares processing work order and schedules processing of cattle with processing crew.
- Transmits daily or supervises the transmission of all cattle activity paperwork to the Cattle Analyst, including receiving paperwork, pen movements and pen pulls, shipments, and death notices.
- Supervises pen riders and daily cattle checks.
- Communicates needed repairs and maintenance to the Yard Maintenance Supervisor.
- Coordinates with the Feeding Supervisor regarding feed schedules and cattle movements.
- Prepares weekly medicine and processing supplies orders, counts inventory at month-end, and prepares inventory reconciliation.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- 3-5 years’ experience working in feedyard, ranching or similar cattle experience
- Ability to identify and diagnose sick cattle
- Must be a team-oriented player
- Must be self-motivated
- Able to lead and direct people to achieve operational goals
- Proven horsemanship and stockmanship experience
- Provide 2 to 3 good horses to utilize on the yard, preferred
Compensation: We offer a very competitive wage and excellent benefits that include family health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401k with match, and paid vacation.