Jobs at Greenhill Farms (Saro Africa Group)

Job Description

• The position of the Farm Supervisor role is a supervisory position in the Company
• The Farm Supervisor is charged with the overall responsibility of ensuring that all farm activities run smoothly and profitably with sound administrative and technical practices.

Primary Responsibilities
Technical:Job Description

• The position of the Farm Manager is a leadership and management position in the Company.
• The Farm Manager is charged with the overall responsibility of ensuring that all farm activities run smoothly and profitably with sound administrative and technical practices.

Primary Responsibilities
Technical:

• Undertakes the supervision of all farm production planning, operations from land clearing, through soil preparation, crop management and harvesting up to delivery to factory gate.
• Shall be responsible for the preparation and execution of farm budgets and investments in line with set goals and targets.
• Shall be responsible for the efficient deployment and routine maintenance of farm machineries, selection and application of appropriate agro inputs in a cost-effective manner.
• Maintains high level relationship with key farm and factory technical personnel to produce the required feedstock as at when due.
• Recruits and Supervises the activities of the block and field supervisors as well as casual workers to ensure high level performance in line with Greenhill strategy.
• Maintain an high level and professional relationship with collaborators that will aid in delivering planned Green Hills strategy

Commercial:

• Liaises with input suppliers and service providers to ensure prompt delivery of goods and services with minimum wastages.
• Monitors the delivery of products to ensure that goods are received in good conditions by the farm.
• Ensure that cassava root delivery to the factory is as planned with minimum delay and wastage.
• Ensures that production costs and controls are in line with expectations and must strive to be cost efficient at all times.
• Ensure efficient cost management that will deliver improvement in cost reduction and make Green Hills remains the most cost-efficient producer of Cassava root

Risk and Control:

• Ensure that identified risks in the farm operations are mitigated according to the plan.
• Ensures that issues of security, community relations, flooding and fire are adequately planned for and mitigations put in place before they occur.
• Provide the leadership that will ensure that subordinates provide solutions to farms technical problems responsibly and ensure adequate safety precautions by associates, contract worker and customer.

Process Improvement:

• Will continuously ensure processes are followed and improved upon by adherence and proposing ways of improvement.

Reporting:

• Provides reports of functions on weekly and periodic basis as may be needed by the Top Management.

Others:

• Any other job that may be assigned by the Greenhill MD

Competencies Required:

• Experience in managing the human and material resources to profitably produce and sell arable crop produce especially cassava roots based on projected costs and returns.
• Experience in optimizing production inputs including mechanization activities to deliver cassava roots at least costs.
• Clear understanding and practical experience in the profit and loss analysis of cassava production
• Ability to select and recruit suitably qualified other farm technical staff (Supervisors, Tractor operators, Farm Assistants and casual labourers.
• Understanding of the commercial and marketing activities as well as production and price cycles of farm produce especially Cassava roots.
• Should have experience in rural community relationship management
• Should have Knowledge and practical field experience in managing profitable large scale mechanized farm preferably cassava production farms by adopting best management practice (agronomic, human and material resources).
• Should have knowledge and experience in achieving targeted cassava yield (volume and starch content) through planned activities from land preparation to harvesting including varietal selection across cassava growing seasons.
• Knowledge and Experience in the utilization of full farm mechanization options to optimize yield and lower production cost.
• Should be innovative and ready to adopt new improved technology for production, monitoring and decision making including digital apps.
• Experience in the organization and management of outgrowers/ingrowers schemes to achieve production targets will be an advantage.
• Ability to create relationships around his activities such as networking with other farm managers, processors, NGOs , communities and research institutes for knowledge exchange, social harmony and sourcing of required farm labour as may be needed.

Qualifications/ Experience

• Minimum of a Second Class Upper B.Agric (Hons) in Agronomy, Agric Economics or Extension from a reputable tertiary institution.
• Post graduate certificate in agriculture and business studies will be an advantage.
• Should have minimum of 10 years' experience as a large-scale farm Manager and preferably in a commercial cassava farm.
• Age: 32 - 42

ded to new technology in agriculture especially digital apps.

• Experience in the organization and management of outgrowers/ingrowers schemes to supplement or achieve own production targets.
• Ability to work independently and create good working relationships around his activities such as networking with other farms, processors, NGOs and research institutes for knowledge exchange and sourcing of required farm human resources as may be needed.