Job Description:
We grow, harvest, cool, process and ship millions of cartons of fresh vegetables to retailers, wholesalers and food service customers all over the world. What sets us apart is our seed to sales approach. We control the entire process, ensuring consistent high quality produce year round.
We are currently searching for a Production Supervisor in Santa Maria, CA.
Compensation/Salary:
DOE
Requirements:
- Employee must have the ability to walk, talk, hear, see, speak, concentrate, reach in all directions, stoop, bend, lift up to 60 lbs
- Use a computer, telephone and other equipment needed for the position
Responsibilities & Duties:
- Responsible for overall management of assigned commodities/area
- Proficient knowledge and experience with Crop Trac to schedule assigned crops/areas
- Planting and Pre-Irrigation schedules
- Ground prep, Chopping, Listing, Irrigation, Pre-irrigation, Cultivations, Fertilizer applications, Weeding, Thinning
- Quick tests –Ensure tests are completed and proper levels of fertilizer/chemicals are applied
- Planning and budgeting
- Planting schedule and execution
- Production management
- Ensuring routine communications with Pest Control Advisors
- Ensuring coordination between ranches of all ranch assets; Equipment, Tape, Labor, Etc.
- Coordinating and Collaborating with Harvest Department to determine harvest date(s) and Irrigation schedules
- Ensuring Inventory Management of Fertilizer and Pesticide Usage
- Ensure timely communications with Cost Analyst
- Other duties as assigned
- Work with Production Manager on all crop analytics and district plan development
- Establish, track and meet budgets
- Planting location timing and varieties
- Labor Management and Tracking
- Develop and review efficiency Reports
- Analysis of input costs
- Yield evaluation
- Evaluation of growing practices
- Assessment of growing practices
- Ensuring new hires have completed new hire paperwork and compliance training has been completed prior to start of work (no exception)
- Understand and utilize Pet Tiger Capabilities to enhance efficiencies and ensure payroll accuracy
- Ensuring compliance in Food Safety, Worker Safety, Employee Relations, and all Governmental Regulatory Compliance
- Ensuring timely attendance and participation of all required company meetings
- Ensuring communications and tasks are understood by all personnel and executed timely and accurately
- Ensuring adherence to all company policies and procedures
- Ensuring recruitment, training, and performance assessments of designated personnel
Skills:
- Teamwork: Demonstrates teamwork, Ability to work well with others
- Communication: Bilingual ability. Communicates well with others both verbal and written. Interacts well with all departments. Collaborates routinely
- Dependability and Responsibility: Dependable and accepts responsibility for his/her role to meet deadlines
- Attendance, Policies & Procedures: Maintains good attendance and upholds all company policies and procedures with the highest integrity
- Problem Solving & Motivation: Identifies and solves problems with prompt decisions and monitors results to meet objectives
- Productivity & Time Management: Achieves productivity goals, manages time wisely and maintains low error rate
- Organization & Leadership Skills: Plans and organizes projects in a timely manner.
- Establishes priorities with employees and/or appropriate parties. Communicates well with manage
- Strong computer skills required
