Duma Works is recruiting a Farm Manager for one of our clients.
The farm is a 15 – acre transitional
horticultural farm located in Machakos.
The company grows horticultural
products for the export market and are currently growing french beans and baby
corn, to meet high levels of demand for vegetables in the export market.
Job Purpose: The Farm Manager will oversee the operations and ensure that the farm is operating efficiently – meeting the expected quality, quantities on schedule and within the budgeted costs.
Routine tasks
- Communicate with the Operations on a daily
basis via Daily activity report in order to prepare and plan tasks
- Provide thorough reporting on
daily/weekly/monthly activities with clear articulation of
accomplishments and challenges; and recommended solutions
- Establish short term and long-term priorities.
- Manage all aspects of Farm Production in
conjunction with Agronomist & CEO
- Promote all policies and procedures
established and outlined by the business.
1.
Plan, implement, and complete daily
and long term farm production tasks with Agronomist
2.
Utilize all casual staff to
accomplish goals.
3.
Accomplish tasks through delegation
to staff members.
4.
Establish performance and
productivity standards for each task delegated to a staff member.
5.
Evaluate, review, and give feedback
for each task assigned to a staff member.
6.
Insure that staff members are meeting
performance and productivity standards. If not, provide input, correction,
training, and innovation to assist them in meeting goals.
7.
Establish monitoring systems for
delegated tasks to insure completeness of task. ( Use the forms provided)
8.
All financial transactions should be
accompanied with documentary evidence of receipts or petty cash vouchers
- Maintain good records utilizing computer
skills and proficiency
- Responsible for all crop production on the
farm including fruits.
Responsible for:
- Planning-selecting planting schedules,
varieties, and quantities.
- Planting-insuring that all plantings are
completed on time.
- Pest I.D., control, applications, and records.
- Harvesting, inventorying, proper rotation of
inventory,
- Quality control for all production.
- Purchasing supplies necessary for production
in liaison with operations manager.
Human relations
- As a direct representative of the business,
must always exhibit respect for all coworkers, supervisors, and customers.
- Company policies and procedures, as well as
directives from the GM, must never be negated nor criticized in front of
other staff members.
- Hire, Supervise, and terminate production
employees as necessary to fulfill priorities established by the business
and remain within the company annual budget.
- Develop and maintain weekly production staff
member schedule.
- Responsible to develop job descriptions and
training procedures with the HR & Operations Director
- Responsible to train, review, evaluate, and
provide constructive input to improve performance of employees.
- Implement pay scales in accordance with the
GM.
- Insure that staff members know who is in
charge when and whom they should report to.
- Insure that staff members who are place in
roles of responsibility know who they are supervising and what tasks they
are overseeing.
- Provide for systems that insure proper
watering and disease control.
- Must know status of projects
- Promote good employee morale and teamwork.
- Identify and resolve problems and potential
problems.
Communication
- Promote and maintain good customer relations.
Would be responsible for all aspects of the farm’s production operation
- Communicate all issues to GM; report on
actions taken for resolution.
- Assist with farm tours and special events as
needed.
- Additional farm responsibilities as needed.
Job Characteristics
- Full time position
- Generally a six day work week November through
May
- May need to work off hours for during harvest
tine and other special or emergency tasks.
- Long work days are sometimes necessary during
the busy months.
- May be called upon during off hours for
information or guidance and must be available.
Qualifications
- Diploma in Agricultural or horticultural field
( must have)
Skills and Competencies
- Proper time management
- Good planning skills
- Good Communication skills
- Record keeping and analytical skills
- Knowledgeable of farm operations from planting
to harvest
Qualities: Integrity, honesty, willingness to learn,
Self-motivated and goal oriented, sociable
How to Apply
Deadline for applications is on 20th November 2015
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your CV to apply@dumaworks.com. As the subject line of your email, write “1950” and please make sure to include your Name and Phone number in the message body. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
* When applying to any job through Duma Works, you can expect that after you apply, you will receive a confirmation email, and then an SMS alert asking you to take a basic screening test over SMS. The SMS with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test, and if you ever have any issues with the process, please reach out to 0702093793.
How to Apply
Deadline for applications is on 20th November 2015
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please send your CV to apply@dumaworks.com. As the subject line of your email, write “1950” and please make sure to include your Name and Phone number in the message body. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.
* When applying to any job through Duma Works, you can expect that after you apply, you will receive a confirmation email, and then an SMS alert asking you to take a basic screening test over SMS. The SMS with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test, and if you ever have any issues with the process, please reach out to 0702093793.
