Farm Worker/Livestock Curator

The Salvation Army USA Western Territory is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Farm Worker/Livestock Curator to join our team at the Harvesting Hope farm. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring maximum harvest during the planting season, maintaining clean and well-stocked housing and recreation areas for livestock, and providing excellent customer service to our clients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain adequate clean and well-stocked housing and recreation areas for livestock.
• Collect eggs daily and perform scheduled wellness checks on livestock, administering basic first aid as needed.
• Maintain appropriate levels of water and food for livestock.
• Work with volunteers to direct daily goals and areas of focus.
• Harvest, weigh, and display produce for client use.
• Load and offload produce as needed and indicated by supervisors.
• During off-season and periods of inclement weather, assist with daily operations of the food bank and warehouse, and rotating stock as necessary.

Requirements:

• Ability to sit, walk, stand, bend, squat, climb, kneel, and twist on an intermittent or continuous basis.
• Ability to grasp, push, pull objects such as rakes, shovels, and garden carts.
• Ability to operate small farm tractor.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to withstand long periods of outdoor exposure.
• Ability to understand written or verbal information.

Benefits:

• Generous benefits package including paid holidays, vacation time, sick time, and medical, vision, and dental insurances.
• Low bi-weekly premiums for employee-only health insurance coverage.
• Voluntary +1 and +family coverage at additional cost.
• Delta Dental DHMO and DPPO dental insurance offered starting at $2.31 bi-weekly cost.
• Employer-paid life insurance policy.
• Voluntary supplemental life, short-term, and long-term disability plans available.
• Employer-funded Money Purchase Pension Plan (Defined Contribution Plan) 50% vested at 5 years eligible service time.
• Employee-funded voluntary 403(b) options.
• One week (5 business days) of paid leave at the employee's normal rate of pay for births, adoptions, and foster placements.
• 12 days of sick leave annually accruing from day one, eligible for use after 3 months' service time.
• 2 weeks of paid vacation annually accruing from day one for non-exempt positions, 4 weeks for exempt positions, accruing from day one, eligible for use after 6 months' service time.
• 13 designated holidays + 1 floating holiday per year.