Farm Supervisor at Efficacy Construction Company

Job Description

• Direct and coordinate, through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities of workers engaged in agricultural crop production for corporations, cooperatives, or other owners.
• Assigns duties, such as tilling soil, planting, irrigating, storing crops, and maintaining machines, and assigns fields or rows to workers.

Duties

• Determines number and kind of workers needed to perform required work, and schedules activities.
• Trains workers in methods of field work and safety regulations, and briefs them on identifying characteristic of insects and diseases.
• Contracts with seasonal workers and farmers to provide employment, and arranges for transportation, equipment, and living quarters.
• Recruits, hires, and discharges workers.
• Inspects crops and fields to determine maturity, yield, infestation, or work requirements, such as cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting.
• Planning and implementing budgets and production targets
• Monitoring the quality of the produce and performance of the sections including health and welfare
• Keeping up to date and accurate records
• Ensuring the farm is compliant with various legal guidelines and working to minimise the environmental impact of the business, for instance via waste disposal
• Helping with product marketing and selling to a variety of customers
• Negotiating with suppliers and buyers
• Managing any farm diversification activities
• Determines number and kind of workers needed to perform required work, and schedules activities.
• Observes workers to detect inefficient and unsafe work procedures or identify problems, and initiates actions to correct improper procedure or solve problem.
• Issues farm implements and machinery, ladders, or containers to workers and collects them at end of workday.
• Investigates grievances and settles disputes to maintain harmony among workers.
• Requisitions and purchases farm supplies, such as insecticides, machine parts or lubricants, and tools.
• Directs or assists in adjustment, repair, and maintenance of farm machinery and equipment.

Experience and Skills Requirements

• Candidate must possess OND/HND or equivalent qualification in Agriculture or Natural Sciences with a minimum of 2 years hands-on experience in practical farming and technical knowledge.
• Candidate must be committed, willing and able to live and work on the farm.
• Experience in Crop production and Horticulture (in Greenhouses and open field), as well as good understanding of pest management, will be added advantage.
• Candidate must be able to work under pressure with little supervision
• Skilled in planning, budgeting and bookkeeping, report and presentation
• Understands farm economics.