With a robust background at Yellowstone Cattle Feeders, I excel in technical troubleshooting and fostering team collaboration. Demonstrated expertise in maintenance and repair, coupled with a knack for enhancing team performance, underpins my ability to drive efficiency and productivity in challenging agricultural environments.
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist Ranch Hand
Yellowstone Cattle Feeders
11.2022 - Current
Agricultural and Transport
7 years Abnormal/Transport work and agricultural work in South Africa. Included transport of all heavy machinery (yellow machines) up to 100 metric tonnes and all farming equipment locally and cross border into Africa. Trucks: Scania, Mercedes Benz, Volvo. Heavy machinery: CAT, Komatsu, Hitachi - Brookfield Group of Companies. 2014-2021
Truck driver (CDL learners obtained), Live bottom trailers, Commodity grinding, Payloaders and maintenance workshop including welding - Reinert Hay Company TX. 2021
2.4 Years Ranch and Feedlot experience in Montana USA. Feeding, grinding of hay/straw, scoring feed bunks, calling feed with Animal Heath Computer systems, Feeding program IT technical support for the computer hardware, software and network connectivity. Loading and batch feed. Processing cattle, calf branding, fencing, pen maintenance, welding maintenance and cleaning up of pens. MICRO batching machine, fault finding and end-of-day processing.
Laird and Harsh feed trucks, Pay loaders: CAT, John Deere, CASE. John Deere tractors. Supreme feed wagon. Haybuster.
Driving Kenworth, Peterbilt and Freightliner trucks, manual and automatic transmissions. Daily maintenance, minor services, tyre replacement. Tipper trucks, Box scraper roads and cattle pen maintenance, JD and Case skid steers.
Haying and silage operations: 2023 Massey Ferguson Swather with GPS operation. JD tractors, balers and hay rakes. Bale movement. Collection, loading, transport and stacking.
Corn grinding. Feedlot Mill and mobile corn cracker corn grinding operations. Loading, hauling and offloading of commodities
Education
High School Diploma -
General Hertzog
Witbank South Africa
12-1985
Skills
Maintenance and repair
Failure management
Team performance improvement
Team collaboration/Supervision
Excellent communication skills
Documentation management
Analytical thinking
Technical troubleshooting
Timeline
Specialist Ranch Hand
Yellowstone Cattle Feeders
11.2022 - Current
High School Diploma -
General Hertzog
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