Swamper

**Swamper Job Description**

**Specific Duties**
- Pre-season work includes:

- Painting, cleaning, and maintenance of all areas on Historic Hat Creek Ranch to get the site set up and ready for customers
- There is not limitation on these duties
- During the season:

- Maintenance of the stagecoach such as greasing the wheels if needed
- Cleaning of the livestock pens in the evening once the stagecoach has finished for the day.
- During a regular day:

- Ride along with the teamster and assist guest in and out of the stagecoach
- Sanitize the stagecoach as needed after each ride
- Assist the teamster where needed when it comes to help with the horses
- Post-season work includes, but is not limited to:

- Cleaning, storage, and maintenance of all equipment used during season
- Putting away the stagecoach and wagons
- Cleaning of the harnesses and barns.

**Qualifications**:

- Livestock experience, particularly with horses
- Minimum 16 years old
- Communication skills
- Being physically capable of lifting to 50 lbs. and climb up and down a stagecoach
- Willingness to wear period attire as a stagecoach driver from 1860-1920s
- Foreign language skills are an asset but not required
- Ability to pass and maintain a criminal record check

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time, Seasonal
Contract length: 6 months

**Salary**: $16.00-$18.00 per hour

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Cache Creek, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

**Experience**:

- horse: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2023-04-12
Expected start date: 2023-04-24