HerdspersonFarm Hand FULL-TIME

• SCHEDULE: Monday-Friday 7am-5pm
  • Approximately 50 hours a week including at least 1 weekend a month
• BENEFITS: This position is full-time benefit eligible elective benefits include:
  • Medical dental hearing and vision insurance.
  • Marathon Health Clinic - a premier on-site healthcare provider. A separate entity from Herrs located at our Nottingham PA facility. This facility ensures easy access to tailored healthcare services preventative care wellness programs for employees on any medical plan
  • Opportunity to contribute to a 401k with a company match.
  • Paid vacation holiday and sick time.
  • Paid Employee referral program.

Key Responsibilities

• Safely operates heavy farm machinery and a wide variety of tools.
• Constructs and maintains the habitat for cattle including grazing fields and barns.
• Repairs farm structures (barns shelters gates feed troughs etc.) as necessary.
• Monitors cattle health diagnoses disease or injuries and attends to minor health issues.
• Assist with calving as needed and all reproductive activities including A.I. Embryo Transfer and heat detection. Assist with calving and all reproductive activities as needed.
• Develops cattle rations using snack food by products from the Herr Foods manufacturing plant that results in the desired performance. Ability to read and understand feed rations and properly mix feed on a daily basis.
• Assists in all farming and haying activities.
• Lawn mowing weed eating power washing and other tasks to maintain Herr Angus property as required.
• Helps operate spray irrigation equipment.
• Leverages creativity and problem-solving skills to deal with situations that arise on the farm on a daily basis.

• Works with the rest of the farm team to promote and sell Herr Angus cattle and beef.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with internal and external customers.
• Works proactively to identify problems and craft creative solutions.

• A Bachelors degree in Animal Science Plant Science Biology or a related field is desired or minimum of 5 years related experience desiredworking on both cattle and plant farm.
• Demonstrated experience to work independently or as a team.
• Recognized as one who is proactive in problem-solving and works towards creative solutions.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to internal/external customers.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to set own priorities to coordinate multiple assignments with fluctuating and time-sensitive deadlines.
• Ability to plan organize and schedule work.
• Ability to analyze situations apply independent judgment discretion and initiative to address problems and develop practical thorough and creative solutions.
• Demonstrated experience with attention to detail and excellent organization skills.
• Competencies desired: strategic thinking creativity problem solving process management communication skills team management and perseverance.

• Must be able to perform strenuous physical activity in variety of extreme environments (hot cold humid wet windy etc).
• Majority of work is conducted outdoors or in barns.
• Work is physically demanding and in dirty and/or dusty environment.
• Ability to lift up to 100 pounds on occasion and 50 pounds regularly.