Property Manager/Caretaker

Full time position caring for 125 acre agricultural property with several barns and outbuildings.

Desired Skills/Experience:

• Experience with tractors, mowers, and basic machinery
• Basic carpentry and maintenance skills
• Livestock experience or love of animals and willingness to learn
• Interest or experience in basic yardwork and landscaping
• Ability to execute on tasks with minimal supervision
• Eye for detail / commitment to high quality upkeep
• Desire to work outdoors and ability to lift up to 50 lbs

Pay:

• $20 - $30 per hour

Year Round Responsibilities:

• Maintain fencing and replace/upgrade as necessary
• Maintain outbuildings, including weekly sweeping/blowing of horse barn, small animal barn and party barn.
• Manage inventory including ordering, picking up, and organizing feed and farm supplies
• Muck out goats daily and cows weekly. Possible mucking out of horses in future.
• Scoop chicken coop daily
• Empty muck pile to compost heap weekly or as necessary
• Feed and water chickens, goats, cows, and potentially horses
• Bring in and sort packages

Warm Weather Responsibilities:

• Mow approximately 5 acres of grass biweekly
• Trim around and under pasture fences
• Maintain approximately 25 acres of pasture, brush hogging, dragging, weeding,and string trimming as necessary
• Restore and maintain riding arena and round pen
• Basic mulching, weeding, and pruning of landscaped areas
• Control invasive weeds in other areas of the property
• Cut and maintain trails
• Paint outbuildings and fencing (approximately one building and one pasture area per summer, or as time allows)
• One-off landscaping projects, including rebuilding vegetable garden, planting orchard, etc.
• One-off carpentry projects, including repair of decking, construction of screens for dumpster and A/C unit
• Sweep / blow off front porch, pool area and driveway every few days
• Setup outdoor furniture for the season
• Power wash stairs and outdoor furniture season

Cold Weather Responsibilities:

• Clean outdoor furniture, umbrellas and pool supplies and move inside for winter
• Rake or blow leaves from approx 5 acres of lawn
• Trim and winterize vegetable and flower gardens
• Wash down windows and exterior of the house and barns once per season
• Maintain / renew gravel on paths and driveways throughout property
• Shovel snow from porches, decks, doorways and sidewalks around buildings
• Plow driveways and other estate roads as necessary
• Maintain and winterize livestock water systems
• Maintain and service machinery
• Clean out chicken coop at the beginning and end of the season
• One-off indoor projects, potentially including upgrading stall doors, removing concrete from indoor barn, build indoor shelving, etc.
• Leftover summer projects as weather permits