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If you love the outdoors, enjoy working with people and are
honest and hard working, then we may have the job for you!
Cottonwood Ranch is a fifth generation working horse, cattle,
and guest ranch offering our guests an experience of a lifetime.
We expect our facilities to be kept clean, meals to be delicious
and excellently presented, and our guest services and relations
to be outstanding. Our guests are not just customers, but
members of our ranch family. We expect our employees to work
hard, have fun, enjoy the ranch and its facilities on their time
off, and build relationships to last a lifetime.
Requirements:
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and willing to live
on the ranch. Housing and meals are supplied as part of
our employment package. Please expect to have roommates.
No drug use is allowed. Good social skills and a neat,
clean appearance are necessary.
Availability:
We are looking for employees who are available from May to the
end of October. Some positions extend through the end of
November. The exact dates that you are available to work
are VERY important. The employment dates agreed upon
become part of a signed agreement if hired.
Employment - Introduction
The Cottonwood Ranch is a working horse, cattle, and guest ranch
with a typical occupancy of 20 guests. Our size allows us
to give each guest our personal attention as they ride horses,
work cows, go on pack trips, fish, and participate in our ranch
activities. This personal attention sets us apart from
other types of vacations. It is not uncommon for a guest to
tell us that this was the best vacation they or their family has ever
had. It will be your goal to make that the case for every guest.
We have high standards for the quality of service our guests
receive. Consequently, we have equally high expectations for
performance of our employees. First and foremost we are
looking for employees that are warm, outgoing, and have strong
communication and interpersonal skills. They must not be
afraid of long hours and hard, rewarding work. All
positions require employees that are organized, responsible,
willing to take initiative and pay close attention to detail.
Employees must get along well with others, work well as part of
a team, and must have a "can do" attitude.
Job descriptions for our seasonal positions:
Our ranch community is made up of the Smith and Maxey family,
various full-time employees and seasonal employees. In
addition to the details of the job descriptions below you will
be asked to participate in other ranch duties. We may ask
you to help plant a garden, fix a fence, or clean up the area
around the crew housing. All staff members will also be
required to participate in evening activities when we have
guests.
Chef: (This position is available for the 2008 guest season).
The Cottonwood Chef is responsible for the preparation,
presentation, and timely delivery of three meals per day
including cookouts and for daily appetizers before dinner.
Many of these responsibilities including most breakfasts and the
outdoor meals are delegated to one of our prep cooks. The
chef is also responsible for the maintenance of a clean work
space & tools, proper food handling, cooling, storage regimes,
menus, ordering & inventory.
Assistant Cook
Assist the Chef in all areas of food preparation including
baking of breads & desserts. Prepares, cooks, garnishes and
preps the food for guests and staff to be served family style as
well as for cook-outs, camp-style brunches, and sack lunches.
Assists in the organization of inventory, ordering, receiving
deliveries and storing food properly. May act in place of the
Chef as needed. The assistant cook is also responsible for the
maintenance of a clean kitchen, dishwashing and cleaning the
refrigerator and walk-in weekly.
Housekeeping: (This position is available for the 2008 guest
season).
Housekeepers perform daily lodge cleaning duties. This
will include cleaning the guest bedrooms, great room, bathrooms,
dining room, recreation room, laundry, meal set-up, and
dishwashing. This includes assisting in the preparation of
meals as scheduled on the chef’s days off.
Wranglers: (Our wrangling positions are available for the
2008 guest season).
Cottonwood Wranglers must love working with horses, cows and
especially with our guests. Our visitors come from around the
world with lots of different levels of riding experience.
Our goal is to provide them with a safe, enjoyable, and
educational horseback riding experience. Wrangling, saddling,
feeding, riding, caring for the tack and barn are daily duties.
Cottonwood uses holistic techniques to manage cattle grazing and
the animal’s most beneficial impact on the land. This requires
riding the range daily (whether there are guests or not) and
paying attention to all details of the animals health and
welfare, the health of the land and recording these details to
report back to the management staff. We are looking for
motivated, observant, knowledgeable, friendly people who enjoy
animals, the outdoors and working as a team.
Irrigator: (This position is available for the 2008 season).
Irrigating is one of the most important jobs on the ranch and
requires a self starting individual. The position involves
irrigating about 1500 acres of hay/pasture and maintaining
ditches and keeping them clear of debris and beaver dams,
opening and closing head gates to control the flow of water and
building dams to divert water onto the meadows.
Grounds Person:
The grounds person is responsible for keeping the lawns,
gardens, and trees in shape. This includes a significant
amount of mowing, weeding, daily watering and mosquito control.
You may be asked to assist the irrigator in taking care of the
meadows.
To apply for one of these exciting and
rewarding positions, please send your resume to:
Renie Smith
Cottonwood Ranch
HC 62 Box 1300, O'Neil Route
Wells, NV 89835 U.S.A.
or e-mail your resume to:
cottonwoodranch2000@yahoo.com |
