Stable Attendant
Employer
3082 Walnut Hill Road
Lexington, KY 40515-9542
United States
Job description
Attend to, groom, and care for horses according to instruction. Perform general stable care. Provide horses with water, food, and supplements as instructed and administer medications as necessary. Assist in pre-foaling, labor, post-foaling, foal turnout and care, and mare teasing and weaning. Transport horses between stable, grazing, and training areas as directed. Workers may perform other labor incidental to the listed job duties, such as cleaning animals' quarters, maintenance of farm facilities, and equipment, and other similar tasks.
Special Requirements
Supervision. Workers will perform all job duties according to the instruction and supervision of the farm manager, horse trainers, riders and other senior staff. Extremely specific instructions may be given regarding care for particular horses, sometimes on a daily basis. Stable Attendants will not supervise any other workers and will regularly report to their supervisors regarding work performance.
Worker Performance Standards. All workers must have 3 months of prior experience performing duties of the job offered. Workers must be physically able to work on their feet in bent positions for long periods of time, and must be able to lift 50 pounds and endure manual labor through extreme variant weather conditions, between temperatures of 20 and 100 Fahrenheit, high humidity, wind, rain, sleet, snow, etc. Workers must appear promptly at or before the designated start time on each workday and competently perform a full day of work until the designated end time.