Crop Foreman - 909

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• 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.
• Inspects crops, fields, and plant stock to determine conditions and need for cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting.
• Assigns duties such as planting, cultivation, irrigation and harvesting of crops or plants, product packaging, and grading, and equipment maintenance.
• Observes workers to detect inefficient and unsafe work procedures or to identify problems, initiating corrective action as necessary.
• Reviews employees’ work to evaluate quality and quantity.
• Prepares and maintains time and payroll reports, as well as details of personnel actions such as performance evaluations, hires, promotions, and disciplinary actions.
• Plans and supervises infrastructure and collections maintenance functions such as planting, fertilizing, pest and weed control, and landscaping.
• Prepares reports regarding farm conditions, crop yields, machinery breakdowns, or labor problems.
• Affords assistance in requisitioning and purchasing supplies such as insecticides, machine parts or lubricants, and tools.
• Estimates labor requirements for jobs, and plans work schedule accordingly.
• Directs or assists with the adjustment and repair of farm equipment and machinery.
• Ensures employees get to designated fields through organized transportation.
• Ensures employee work environment meets sanitation standards (restrooms, handwashing, and drinking water) and ensures proper labeling is posted.
• Affords assistance in record keeping for planting, harvesting, storage, sanitation, and repairs and maintenance records.