Elkhorn Ranch

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Currently recruiting for the season that runs from June 15th, 2025 to September 12th, 2025.

    Breakfast Cook/Baker

    Elkhorn Ranch

    Breakfast Cook/Baker: Seeking a team-player, with cooking and baking experience to be our Breakfast Cook and Baker and cook upscale ranch-style cuisine. Our Breakfast Cook/Baker reports directly to our Head Chef for meal-planning, inventory, scheduling etc. Responsibilities include making breakfast for up to 40 guests and 30 crew members throughout the week, accommodating dietary restrictions when needed (gluten free, vegan, nut allergies etc), baking cookies and desserts, maintaining a clean and sanitary kitchen, and working with our servers and Head Chef to ensure smooth service. Breakfast is always served as a buffet with a different breakfast special each day. You can be creative with breakfast specials, cookies and desserts. You may be asked to make lunch or dinner if our Head Chef is sick. While working in a kitchen can be stressful and fast paced at times, it is incredibly important to keep calm under pressure and treat the kitchen crew with respect at all times. The ideal candidate can stay through end of September or mid-October.

    Cabin Crew/Housekeeping

    Elkhorn Ranch

    Cabin Crew/Housekeeping: Seeking detail-oriented, organized, self starters to join our cabin crew. Responsibilities include daily cleaning of our 14 historic guest cabins and common areas, laundry, and weekly flip of all cabins on Saturdays. Cabin crew is also expected to help in other departments when needed including outdoor chores, dishwashing, office help etc. Hours for cabin crew are often the most flexible hours of any ranch jobs allowing you time to relax and enjoy ranch life. The ideal candidate can stay through our entire guest season (mid-September).

    Kitchen Server

    Elkhorn Ranch

    Kitchen Server: Looking for team-players who are passionate about customer service to join our kitchen crew of 5 servers. Responsibilities include setting up buffet-style meals in our dining room and cookouts on the trail, some basic food preparation, dishwashing, serving beer and wine, and maintaining a clean kitchen and dining room. While most of your time will be spent serving meals in the dining room, we also head outside 3 times a week to cook over a fire and share a meal on the trail. This position includes a lot of interaction with guests and servers are expected to conduct themselves in a professional and friendly manner at all times. Previous serving experience is not necessary but would be helpful. The ideal candidate can stay through our guest season (mid-September). However, there will be a couple openings for students who need to leave for school in August.

    Wrangler

    Elkhorn Ranch

    Wrangler: Our wrangler's primary responsibility is to lead our guests safely into the backcountry. Responsibilities include but are not limited to guiding and tailing trail rides, caring for over 100 horses, teaching guests basic horsemanship skills, maintaining tack and equipment, fencing, trail clearing, general ranch maintenance, cleaning the barn, bringing along young and green horses, basic doctoring and wrangling in the morning and evening. You must be hardworking and a team-player; this role will require you to work long and hard hours, including very early mornings. Wranglers must have a teachable attitude and take direction from our Head Wrangler as Elkhorn’s operation will be unique from any other barn. Wranglers must have extensive horseback and horsemanship experience to be considered. The ideal candidate is a team-player, self-starter, calm under pressure, responsible, and professional. While this is a horseback riding role, this is primarily a customer service position! You must be patient and kind to guests while ensuring their safety. You will help guests build horsemanship skills throughout the week. Many of our guests are returners, while others have never been on a horse before. Please submit a riding video in order to be considered for this position. We will need to see you catch, halter, groom, saddle, bridle and ride (walk/trot/lope). If you have little to no horse experience, please do not apply.

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