Flying X Ranch
The Flying X Ranch is an unique, privately held Partnership located in the Laramie Range near Wheatland, Wyoming. Our current, longtime Ranch Manager will be retiring the end of 2017 and we are looking for the perfect Renaissance man or woman to replace him on a long-term basis. This is not a one-year hitch: if you are good, we intend to keep you for years and decades.
The Flying X Ranch is therefore entertaining resumes for a potential job opportunity in Senior-level Ranch Operations to probably begin early 2017 (yes: 2017). We are starting our search early because of the uniqueness of our community and all it offers for the successful candidate. The successful candidate would “shadow” our current Ranch Manager, for a period of time to be determined, in order to fully learn our 37.5-square mile ranch and its issues, infrastructure, and dealings with surrounding ranches and local, state, and federal agencies. The Flying X Ranch is the second largest community in Albany County, after Laramie.
Because we are a not-for-profit Partner-owned operation, the population you would interact with includes some 286 or so Partners and their families (and their guests), many of whom live on the ranch throughout much of the year. Concentrated around the ranch house proper is an RV park and mobile home park, each with its own distinctive needs and issues, including services such as electricity, water, and sewage. Much of the infrastructure of the ranch is monitored and permitted by Albany County agencies, Wyoming agencies, and Federal agencies.
Common issues include managing permanent and part-time ranch staff, road grading (eight miles of dirt road to Highway 34), water leaks, hunting supervision and orientation, fish stocking, leach field maintenance, flood control, diplomatic relations with neighboring ranches, various permitting requirements, haying, horse herd management, cattle grazing negotiation, fencing, enforcing ranch rules and regulations, cabin repairs, and as much proactive work you can handle.
Your other talents include heavy equipment, irrigation, haying, fencing, basic carpentry, livestock, and—here it comes—budgeting. You will be providing a yearly budget to the ranch Board of Directors, which will likely change it beyond belief for you to redo. Also yearly, you will be creating an activities calendar for the influx of Partners that generally starts in May and runs through October or thereabouts. At the end of the year, you will produce a “postmortem”, a recap of the year’s stats and what you did right and what you did wrong and what you will be doing to remedy the latter come next year.
This is a lifestyle opportunity: you will live on the ranch (and be provided housing and utilities, of course) throughout the year and often horrendous winter. On your off time you are free to horse ride, fish, hike, ATV, and avoid Partners who want a piece of your free time. The nearest services are some 34 miles away and your only companions during the dead of winter may be equine and operations staff, who are also living fulltime on the ranch. You have to be able to make and keep friends, or at least have great people skills to avoid making enemies.
You will be reporting directly to the President of the Board, who may change from year to year, and subsequently to the nine-member Board itself—which may change substantially from year to year. Diplomacy is your key skillset. Your compensation will be in the $40K range–depending on qualification and people skills–plus housing, utilities, cable, ranch vehicle and ATV, a great community feeling, use of the ranch, free steak on occasion, and some of the nicest folks you’ll ever want to meet.
Who would ever want this job? The right person. If that’s you, send a resume and cover letter to [FILLED] – we look forward to knowing about you. Families are welcome.
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