Management Trainee

Cobalt Cattle Company LLC; Garden City (KS); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K Company Match

Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off(PTO)

Job summary

Cobalt Cattle Company LLC in Garden City, Kansas, is seeking a Management Trainee to rotate through feedyard operations and build a strong technical foundation for future leadership.

You will learn across Feed, Processing and Receiving, Animal Health, Mill, Yard, and Safety, with hands-on training and mentorship. This entry-level program emphasizes adaptability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or Business related preferred, or relevant industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Learn and operate a feed truck and deliver feed to pens, ensuring proper feeding times and schedules.
• Assist with reviewing daily agenda for pen ships, moves, and transfers; coordinate with cattle department.
• Develop understanding of animal handling; assist with daily agenda for cattle movements and receiving records.
• Learn hospital rotations and protocols for treating cattle; maintain drug inventory.
• Operate equipment in Mill and assist with batch feeding and quality control of ingredients.
• Assist with yard maintenance, preventative maintenance schedules, and compliance with safety procedures.
• Communicate issues to appropriate personnel and develop leadership skills.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture or Business related

Job description

Summary/objective

The Management Trainee position is a rotational position that focuses on building a strong technical foundation in feedyard operations. The time in each department will vary based on the operational needs of each department and the employees development. The Management Trainee will develop an understanding of the operational tasks of each department to prepare for a role leading a team or managing a department in the future.

Essential Functions

Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Feed

• Learn and operate a feed truck, deliver feed to the correct pens, efficiently to ensure proper feeding times are met.
• Learn how to monitor feed intakes, bunk conditions, cattle behavior to feed presentation and schedule ration step-up programs, based on variables such as day son feed, gender, weather, breed, etc.
• Assist the feed callers with reviewing the daily agenda for pen ships, moves, and transfers along with ensuring newly received and re-implanted cattle are fed in a timely manner by coordinating with the cattle department.

Processing and Receiving

• Develop understanding and implement proper animal handling when moving cattle from receiving pens to working area and to home pens.
• Assist with the review and preparation of daily agenda for cattle movements.
• Assist with the preparation of receiving records for input into cattle management system, distribution of processing orders, tags and other necessary products required for each lot.
• Learn and understand the protocols for each class of cattle such as breed, gender, and origin.

Animal health

• Learn and understand the operations in the hospitals, completing hospital pen rotations, treating sick cattle based on protocols, and ensuring cattle return home timely.
• Learn and understand how to import individual cattle treatments into cattle management system.
• Maintain adequate drug inventory.
• Develop the skills to identify sick cattle and make the necessary pulls from home pens.

Mill

• Learn how to safely operate equipment, front end loaders, dump trucks, skid steers, etc.
• Learn to accurately batch feed in a timely manner.
• Develop and understand the equipment required to process grain and ensure proper milling is performed.
• Assist with performing quality control on all incoming feed ingredients and monitor commodity inventories.
• Assist with the preparation and completion of preventative maintenance schedules.

Yard

• Develop an understanding of all equipment required to maintain feed yard facilities, front end loads, tractors with implements, mowers etc.
• Assist with the yard repairs and housekeeping of pens, bunk pads, roads and alleys, fences, water tanks, etc.
• Assist with preparation and completion of preventative maintenance schedules.

Safety

• Ensure compliance with all OSHA/ Safety procedures, rules and regulations.
• Assist in the preparation of monthly safety meetings and safety committee meetings.

Other

• Communicate issues or concerns to the appropriate personnel.
• Continuously learn and develop leadership skills.

Competencies

• Adaptability – Adapt to changes in the work environment.
• Attendance/ Punctuality – is consistently at work and on time.
• Dependability – Follow instructions, respond to management direction; keep commitments; complete tasks on time or notify appropriate person with an alternate plan.
• Ethics – Treat people with respect; work with integrity and ethically.
• Initiative – Ask for and offer help when needed.
• Innovation – Generate suggestions for improving work.
• Judgement – Exhibit sound and accurate judgement.
• Communication (verbal and written) – Listen, and respond with clarity as well as ask appropriate questions.
• Planning/ Organizing – Use time efficiently.
• Problem solving – Identify and resolve problems in a timely manner.
• Quality – Demonstrate accuracy and thoroughness.
• Accountability - Ability to multi-task and take ownership of assigned projects.
• Teamwork – Contribute to building a positive team.
• Technical Skills – Strive to continuously build knowledge and skills.

Supervisory responsibilities

• This position is focused on developing supervisory and leadership skills, in addition to learning feedyard operations.

Physical demands

• Regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
• Frequently required to talk or hear.
• Required to reach with hands and arms.
• Must occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty (50) pounds.
• Regularly required to work 10-12 hours per day
• Frequently required to climb or maneuver into equipment or around facilities.

Travel required

• Less than 10%.

Required Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, Agriculture or Business related preferred, or relevant industry experience.

Competitive compensation and benefits including

• 401K Company Match
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off(PTO)

Work authorization/security clearance requirements

Cobalt Cattle Company participates in E-Verify. You must be authorized to work in the United States.

Affirmative Action/EEO statement

Cobalt Cattle Company LLC is an equal opportunity employer

Note: Specific statements in each section of this Job Description are not intended to be an all-inclusive explanation of work to be performed. They represent typical elements and criteria considered necessary to perform the job successfully. Nothing in this document restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. Employees are expected to perform any and all duties as assigned to the levels expected by management. This job requires regular and predictable attendance. The Employee’s signature below is only an acknowledgment of receipt and understanding of the job description and in no way alters the Employee’s “at will” employment, and neither implies nor constitutes a contract of employment for a definite period of time.