MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist with all aspects of planning for the efficient running of the farm.
- Oversee planting, growing, harvesting and packaging of crops to ensure that supply commitments are fulfilled with quality produce.
- Maintain a clean and safe workspace, and abide by workplace health and safety policies and procedures and work as a team to ensure all staff do the same.
- Manage the team of staff to ensure that planting, picking and packing are completed to the highest standards and in the most efficient manner possible.
- Participate in Management Team meetings and Policy and Procedure development and implementation.
- Oversee irrigation management as required.
- Act as Fire Warden as part of the Emergency Management team as per training.
- Liaise with transport companies and customers as required to ensure that orders can be filled as required.
- Other tasks as directed
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
Qualifications:
- Current Victorian Drivers Licence
- Current Forklift Licence
- Fire Warden Training certificate
Experience:
- Verifiable work history in Horticulture industry.
- Demonstrated ability to plan plantings to ensure adequate harvestable crops to meet supply agreements.
- Demonstrated ability to assess incoming seedlings and inputs for quality and report and concerns to the supplier.
- Demonstrated ability to assess standing crops in order to schedule harvesting.
- Demonstrated ability to assess quality of harvested crops to ensure that all produce supplied to customers meets the customers specifications.
Skills:
- Ability to understand, follow and communicate policies and instructions.
- Physical strength and stamina.
- Resilience to work in all conditions and lead others in the team to do so also.
- Strong oral communication skills.
- Ability to read and write English
- Ability to communicate orally in Khmer to ensure the safety of staff who have English as a second language.
Pay: From $63,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
