Top Agriculture Jobs of the Week
For the week of 3-4-2024
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Livestock Feed Nutritional Support Specialist for Hunter Nutrition
A little about the business: Welcome to Hunter Nutrition! We manufacture top quality texturized, pelleted, and mineral/premix feeds at our 58,000-sq. ft. plant. Unlike other feed manufacturers, Hunter Nutrition places the emphasis on quality rather than quantity. Our feeds are set formulas, made with the best ingredients and quality control. Better feed pays our customers back with improved health and livestock performance. We have a diverse group of both large and small customers, all of which came to us for high quality, better fortified feeds.
What you would be doing:
- Working with nutritionist on feed formulas, feeding program support, and processing sales for our customers.
- Providing dealer support, customer service, answering phones, processing orders and advertising.
- Assisting with ingredients and supply ordering, scheduling, and inventory.
- Attending some occasional trade shows and sales calls as necessary.
- Performing light accounting and general office duties as necessary.
What we're looking for:
- A B.S. Degree in Animal Science and 2 years of previous agri-business/agriculture, or office experience is required.
- Good computer skills with experience in QuickBooks Accounting software, MS Excel, MS Word, and MS Publisher preferred.
- Someone with dedication who is concerned about our business and the quality of service we provide.
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President - General Manager for Servico
A little about the business: For over 40 years, Servico, Inc. has been a nationally recognized, customer focused, farmer-owned cotton ginning and warehousing company serving farmers across Northern Alabama and surrounding states. In addition to cotton ginning and warehousing, Servico is well-diversified, offering a farm input buying service, cottonseed processing facility, industrial warehousing division with rail transloading, and serves as a crop insurance broker to farming customers.
What you would be doing:
- Maintain a company culture based on honesty, integrity, safety, professionalism, customer service and fairness that attracts and retains customers and motivated employees.
- Oversee the work of all divisions of the company, the largest of which are cotton ginning and warehousing, industrial warehousing, cottonseed processing and marketing and crop input sales.
- Coordinate all accounting, budgeting and financial reporting for the company, working with internal and external advisors and with the Board on the strategic decisions for the company.
What we're looking for:
- A bachelor’s degree or higher in business, agricultural economics, engineering or a related field is strongly preferred.
- The leadership, interpersonal and presentation skills required to manage internal and external relationships for the company.
- A level of financial and accounting literacy sufficient for efficient monitoring and management of current business operations.
We offer a competitive base salary dependent on experience along with company paid insurance, bonus potential, 401k with match, PTO and holidays, and more.
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Independent Sales Representative for Stine Seed
A little about the business: Stine Seed Company, a privately held, growing national seed company, currently has an opening for an Independent Sales Representative in North Carolina. This represents an excellent opportunity to grow both professionally and financially with one of the industry’s most respected corn and soybean seed companies.
In this role you are responsible for all commercial activities in the East of the Mississippi River territory and Eastern Canada. Aside from your sales manager role, you also perform product development activities in the Northeast. You will oversee sales growth and further strengthen our position in the market by creating go-to-market strategies and building meaningful business relationships with our customers. This is not just an office job, it is a commercial role in agriculture, meaning occasionally getting your hands dirty while meeting customers in the field. You will work closely with, and report to, the General Manager.
What you would be doing:
- Serve as primary ambassador of the Stine brand within the assigned territory.
- Develop and maintain a thorough agronomic and technical knowledge of Stine seed products and services applicable to the assigned territory.
- Manage existing dealer accounts & recruit new dealerships in order to increase sales.
- Communicate and implement Stine’s sales programs and policies within the assigned territory in order to meet sales goals for the district.
- Work in conjunction with the Stine Regional Sales Agronomist to provide a high level of sales support within the assigned territory.
What we're looking for:
- Candidates should have three or more years of ag experience, including previous experience in agronomy, crop production or seed sales.
- Candidates should possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Candidates should have demonstrated knowledge of proven sales techniques, as well as excellent negotiating skills and the ability to overcome obstacles.
- Candidates should have demonstrated success in dealer development and retention.
What we offer:
- Well-established territory with dedicated dealers
- A 40-plus year reputation for quality seed products
- Truly unlimited earning potential
- Flexibility to work your territory your way
- Agronomic and sales support
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Automation Engineer for Verbio
A little about the business: The Verbio Nevada Biorefinery is the first industrial scale renewable natural gas (RNG) facility in North America using agricultural residues as its feedstock. The plant is 100% owned by Verbio North America Holdings Corporation.
RNG production from corn stover began in December 2021 with the completion of Phase I, at a capacity of 7 million ethanol gallons equivalent (EGE) per year. Upon completion of Phase II summer 2024, the site will begin operating as a biorefinery, producing 60 million gallons of corn-based ethanol and an additional 19 million (EGE) of RNG from stillage. The integration of RNG and ethanol production, unique to Verbio, incorporates advanced operational technology currently in use at the company’s facilities in Germany. The process also yields humus, soil amendment, and organic fertilizers.
Verbio is seeking a highly motivated, self-driven Automation Engineer, for its biomethane and ethanol production facility located at 59219 Lincoln Highway, Nevada, IA 50201.
What you would be doing:
- Work closely with Process Engineering and Production Team to deploy process control automation.
- Maintain DCS and PLC platforms.
- Implement process automation on DCS platforms eight by coordinating in small site-based teams working with leveraged resources and/or external vendors.
- Provide engineering support in operations area to troubleshoot, resolve technical problems, and identify root cause analysis of automated equipment.
- Utilize PLC software to enhance and troubleshoot machine function and capabilities.
What we're looking for:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering and 2+ years of relevant technical experience OR 3+ years of relevant industry experience in DCS/process control configuration.
- Experience with automation, process control, or other related manufacturing equipment.
- Leadership of team to develop, manage, and execute projects.
We offer:
- Comprehensive benefits package beginning day one, including health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Company paid short & long-term disability coverage as well as AD&D.
- Generous vacation, holiday, and sick time with additional leave plan
- 10 paid holidays
- 5 days of paid vacation time
- 5 sick/personal days
- Automatic 5% employer contribution into a 401(k) account after 90 days.
- Quick career advancement and bonus opportunities
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Lead Farm Mechanic for Todd Greiner Farms
A little about the business: Welcome to Todd Greiner Farms! We are a diversified fruit, vegetable and evergreen growing, packing, and shipping operation located in Hart, Michigan. We started out farming 120 acres in 1994 and have grown to over 2,000 acres.
We’re hiring a full-time Lead Farm Mechanic. In this role you will be a working manager, assisting with in-shop and in-field maintenance and repair while managing our equipment, labor, and prioritizing projects. We’re looking for someone who is enthusiastic, responsible, honest, and hard-working that is willing to learn and help assist with various duties on large fruit and vegetable farm.
What you would be doing:
- Manage the equipment, labor, and prioritization of projects/tasks for optimal efficiency.
- Assist with in-field equipment repairs to reduce downtime in the field.
- Manage and oversee the repair and maintenance of equipment, but also working hands-on on equipment repairs. This would be a working-manager role.
- Responsible for ordering all parts and completing the final quality check on repairs.
- Price shop for the best deals on parts and supplies for the shops and equipment.
- May manage 1 employee in the shop, prioritize projects and assign tasks.
What we're looking for:
- Experience in agriculture, farming, or heavy equipment performing maintenance and repair on farm and other heavy equipment.
- Someone who is flexible, hardworking, reliable, works well with and communicates well with others.
- Ability to work longer hours during peak seasons.
We offer competitive pay based on experience along with health insurance, paid time off, company service vehicle and retirement contributions.
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