Stall Superintendent

About the role

We’re always looking for talent that believes in having fun. At PENN Entertainment, you’ll get to be a part of an exciting industry, where the days and nights are fast paced. You’ll work with an incredibly diverse set of coworkers driven by their enthusiasm for helping people find and have more fun. You’ll also get to work at a company that cares about your career growth and will help you get the support you need to expand your possibilities.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a stable area that is clean, neat and sanitary.
• Assists Racing Secretary with stall assignments.
• Maintains records of all stalls and ensures horses are quartered in assigned stalls.
• Assists horsemen with maintenance and other requests.
• Maintains and coordinates walker assignments and payments.
• Maintains and coordinates tack room assignments and payments.
• Ensures receiving barn is ready each day.
• Monitors daily stable area activities and practices in the barn area and on the racetrack for compliance with applicable State Racing Commission safety regulations and the Rules of the Authority.
• Conducts pre-Race Meet racetrack safety inspections.
• Monitors Outrider compliance with Racetrack rules during training.
• Monitors starting gate procedures.
• Monitors ambulance and medical personnel protocols for Covered Horses and Jockeys in cooperation with the Medical Director.
• Assists Regulatory Veterinarians with follow-up on Covered Horses barred from training or vanned off during training and racing.
• Reviews ship-in and ship-out lists and undertakes appropriate investigations.
• Conducts random HISA registration checks for Covered Persons in the stable area.
• Conducts random barn inspections to monitor safety and regulatory compliance, including fire safety regulations.
• Conducts random inspections to verify acceptable management, equine husbandry, and veterinary practices.
• Enforces fire safety rules in the stable area.
• Serves as a member or ex officio member of the Racetrack Risk Management Committee.
• Makes recommendations to Racetrack management and racing officials to ensure the safety and welfare of Covered Horses and Jockeys and compliance with applicable horse racing laws and regulations.

Qualifications

• Must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• Must be able to do manual labor, use pitchfork, rake, shovel, etc.
• Must meet professional appearance standards as prescribed by company policy.
• Three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read and interpret documents in English, such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
• Ability to read and communicate verbally in English.
• Written communication skills in English may also be required.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to perform these operations using units of American money and weight measurement, volume and distance.
• Possess ability to operate an adding machine and have basic computer skills.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Employee must be able to qualify for licenses and permits required by federal, state and local regulations.

Physical Demands

• The employee is regularly required to stand and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.
• Physically mobile with reasonable accommodations including ability to push, pull, carry and lift up to 60 lbs., and the ability to push, pull, reach, bend, twist, stoop, stack, crouch, kneel and balance when performing job duties in varying work areas such as confined spaces.
• Must be able to work in various weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Employee could be exposed to an environment containing unrestricted second-hand tobacco smoke.