Location Manager - Now Offering Commitment Bonus!

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Schedule and facilitate location group and individual meetings.
• Provide vision and leadership for the location team.
• Direct the education and development of the location team through classes and coaching.
• Fill openings by evaluating, interviewing, and extending offers to potential candidates.
• Coach and train new employees.
• Collect sensitive and difficult accounts receivable instances, as necessary.
• Direct safety practices and awareness of established safety needs as defined by safety staff.
• Review inventory reconciliations with area managers when presented with inconsistencies.
• Collaborate with dispatchers and area managers to execute an organized logistics plan daily.
• Remain knowledgeable and involved in sales marketing programs of all departments.
• Avoids absences, lateness, or early departures by communicating with supervisor immediately when needed.
• Assists with daily location operations as needed.

BUDGETING & FINANCES

• Work towards meeting established location budgets prepared annually by department.
• Work with area and district managers on potential site expansion and growth opportunities.

QUALIFICATIONS AND REQUIREMENTS

• Significant agribusiness-related experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in grain and/or agronomy operations.
• Must be licensed and insurable to drive. Class A CDL (Commercial Driver's License) with HazMat endorsement and pesticide handler's license required.
• Must possess an array of interpersonal communication skills for interacting with varying personalities, roles, circumstances and emotional status of teammates, customers, and contractors.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Understand the seasonality of the farm supply business and the in-season time commitment.
• Thorough understanding of grain handling equipment and processes, including unit train loading.
• Complete knowledge of custom application and similar agronomy equipment.
• Possesses proficiencies of common computer programs and processes.
• Must understand common mathematics associated with account balancing and purchasing.
• Possesses problem solving capability and understands the operational processes.
• Must be able to guide employees while maintaining their individualism in tasks and direction.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Sit, stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Sometimes stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Rarely works in wet or humid, extreme cold/heat (all non-weather), toxic or caustic chemicals, or vibration environments.
• Occasionally works near moving mechanical parts, work in high, precarious places, in fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, work in explosive atmosphere.
• Frequently works in outdoor weather conditions.