The Agricultural Field Operations is responsible for evaluating, procuring, and ensuring agricultural products that meet company specifications.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
General Responsibilities
- Determine availability and quality of agricultural product in fields.
- Forecast and report to the company on upcoming harvestable product, as well as ensure that harvested product meets the company’s specifications.
- Procure agricultural products for the company to market outside of its current grower base.
- Provide daily updates to sales and production departments
Other Responsibilities
- Travel as required per the company.
- Operate a company vehicle per company policies.
- Weekend work.
- Some computer work.
- Extensive phone calls.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree in Crop Science, Agriculture Engineering, or related field
- Qualifications
- Ability to be a team player in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- Must be able to interact and effectively communicate with all personnel, peers, growers, and customers
- Multitasker
- Must be self-motivated
- Demonstrate ability to adopt/respond in an environment of constant change
- Strong written and verbal communication skills (bi-lingual a plus)
- Strong attention to detail
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee in this position to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to do the following either in or outdoors: stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Employee must also have the ability to reason, prioritize, conceptualize and analyze different courses of action and make decisions away from immediate supervisory control.
Work Environment:
Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may get exposed to weather conditions at work sites. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate in the office and high at the work site.
