Crop Foreman - 909

Job Description

Job Description

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

1. Maintains and complies with total quality controls according to USDA standards relating to inspection, grading, sorting, handling, and shipments that ensure NAPI’s concerns on food safety.
2. Inspects crops, fields, and plant stock to determine conditions and need for cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting.
3. Assigns duties such as planting, cultivation, irrigation and harvesting of crops or plants, product packaging, and grading, and equipment maintenance.
4. Observes workers to detect inefficient and unsafe work procedures or to identify problems, initiating corrective action as necessary.
5. Reviews employees’ work to evaluate quality and quantity.
6. Prepares and maintains time and payroll reports, as well as details of personnel actions such as performance evaluations, hires, promotions, and disciplinary actions.
7. Plans and supervises infrastructure and collections maintenance functions such as planting, fertilizing, pest and weed control, and landscaping.
8. Prepares reports regarding farm conditions, crop yields, machinery breakdowns, or labor problems.
9. Assists with requisition and purchase supplies such as insecticides, machine parts or lubricants, and tools.
10. Estimates labor requirements for jobs, and plans work schedule accordingly.
11. Directs or assists with the adjustment and repair of farm equipment and machinery.
12. Ensures employees get to designated fields through organized transportation.
13. Ensures employee work environment meets sanitation standards (restrooms, handwashing, and drinking water) and ensures proper labeling is posted.
14. Assists with record keeping for planting, harvesting, storage, sanitation, and repairs and maintenance records