Responsibilities :
- Manage, motivate, implement, and train personnel on all policy, procedures, and safety in the performance of operations and tasks, per company standards.
- Select and train field mechanics, utility techs, operators, and other full-time, seasonal, and temporary employees required to support the unit.
Supervision extends to also include Manager Trainees, large planting and harvest crews, truck drivers and vine pullers, equipment operators, irrigators, and interns.
- Direct activities on a farm unit to produce, harvest, and store crops, to achieve the greatest profitability per acre while improving the resource base.
- Research and recommend major equipment, chemical, and input purchases. Make minor operational input purchases for the unit based on good judgment.
- Ensure timeliness of all cultural practices on the unit, including land preparations, seedbed preparation, planting, cultivating, chemical and fertilizer application, irrigation, and harvesting.
- Accountable for legal and safe application and documentation of chemicals, fertilizers, and pesticides.
- Assist Farm Management in developing capital and operating plans and budgets for the unit and ensures adherence to those plans.
- Support other division-supporting and farm-related tasks and projects.
- Champion a best-in-class safety program by promoting consistent safety training attendance, compliance with all OSHA and company / industry policies, as well as encouraging the use of PPE and adherence to all other EHS programs.
Qualifications :
- Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy or related field or noted equivalent work experience.
- 2+ years farm production experience, in addition to relevant supervisory experience managing a high-performing team.
- Proficient computer skills : ability to learn new systems / technology including Microsoft tools and proprietary programs.
- Chemical applicator’s license required.
- Must have a valid, in-state driver’s license.
- Strong demonstrated interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills, written and verbal. Bilingual Spanish skills a plus
- Must be able to perform the physical requirements of the job which includes lifting and carrying repetitively up to 50lbs.
- This job will occasionally be exposed to high, precarious places, and / or risk of electrical shock; frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts and toxic or caustic chemicals;
and regularly exposed to fumes or airborne particles and outside weather conditions. The noise level is often loud. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) per applicable laws and regulations will be supplied.
- Must be able to accommodate the regular farm schedule of 55-75 hours per week, in addition to working nights and weekends, per business needs.
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