Job Title: Pre-Commercial Field Supervisor
Reports To: Pre-Commercial Manager
Location: Roseburg, OR
Position Status: Exempt
Date Posted: 02/28/2014
Date Removed: 03/13/2014

Summary:

Manage pre-commercial field activities yielding high quality and pure seed while utilizing resources effectively and efficiently.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

• Locate and secure field isolations for planting seed/stecks-
  • Satisfying isolation distance requirements per SOP’s.
  • Establish and maintain a working relationship with pre-commercial growers ensuring grower and BTS expectations are mutually understood (Includes finding new growers to contract with to meet isolation requirements).
  • Accurately record and report all GPS coordinates as well as acres per isolation.
• Document-
  • Create detailed field maps of all isolations following SOP’s.
  • Take detailed, electronic field notes through-out the season (examples below).
    • Harvest and planting dates.
    • Fertilizer, fungicide, herbicide application date and rates.
    • Regular plant status/evaluations (size, health, bolting dates, flowering rates, uniformity, etc).
    • Shipping and receiving inventory tracking.
    • Complete all paperwork and processes as directed through regulated agencies and BTS SOP’s
    • Manage any issues requiring extra attention within each field.
    • Ensure all activities are completed in a timely manner outlined in BTS’s SOP.
• Plant pre-commercial nurseries, harvest/transplant stecks, harvest seed-
  • This includes making field lay-outs.
  • Seed and steck inventory management .
  • Manage contract labor teams to ensure the correct items are planted and harvested appropriately.
• Develop and improve cultural field practices-
  • Field preparation/maintenance prior to and during field use (lime, fertilizer, fungicide, herbicide, etc) and irrigation management.
  • Advise growers and manage BTS employees/contract labor to implement agronomic practices to yield a high quality and pure seed.
  • Execute accurate timing on chemical application, irrigation, clipping, cutting, and harvest
  • Identify problems early and implement solutions in a timely manner minimizing/eliminating quality and purity risk.
  • Manage trials and continue to review cultural practice for continuous improvement.
• In addition to managing BTS/Contract manpower, you will be required to perform labor field duties including but not limited to spraying, fertilizing, fence building, disking, combining, and rouging.
• Travel-
  • Assistance in the Willamette Valley and other program support outside of Roseburg will be required.
  • Miles driven per year could exceed 30,000.
  • Out-of-state seasonal travel is required.
  • Out of country travel could be required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree (prefer a concentration in agriculture).
• 3-5 years of field experience (prefer crop management experience).
• Able to obtain a Private Pesticide Applicator’s License.
• Require a reliable, motivated self-starter with leadership and organizational skills.
• Ability to multitask is imperative.
• Capable of using MS Excel and familiarity with Windows based applications.
• Ability drive a forklift and pull a loaded trailer.
• Ability to pass background check and must have valid driver’s license.

Please apply at the following link: https://home2.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=11036212