Job Opportunities at AAA Growers

Responsibilities for the Senior Supervisor Job

• Responsible in recruiting new staff.
• Take an active role in training and assessment of staff.
• Take an active role in staff motivation, creating a conducive work environment and actively participating in
  conflict resolution.
• Collaborating with managers, team leaders and staff in work planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluating and follow up of set targets.
• Take an active role in staff appraisals in fair and transparent manner.

Crop Management.

• Ensure that appropriate crop husbandry practices are efficiently carried out and within set timeframe
• Ensure cut point rules are strictly followed and adhered to.
• Organizing planting and taking care of young crop.
• Ensure irrigation is proper and the systems are functional as per set program.
• Monitor growth habit of the crop in various weather situations and report any abnormalities.
• Quality Management and Production
• Ensure 5 harvesting commandments is followed and adhered to handling proper netting and minimal damages.
• Carry out weekly and predictions with less margin of error
• Proper netting and minimal damages.
• Carry out weekly and predictions with less margin of error

Hygiene

• Ensure all working tools are strictly followed especially secateurs following the SOP in place.
• Ensure the greenhouse is clean both inside and outside and all items are properly arranged and all unwanted items removed.

Pest and Diseases Reporting

• Do crop walk in liaison with scouts and report to management of any pest or disease for appropriate action
• In case of any pest or disease, report the action taken following the SOPs in place.

Health and Safety

• Ensure safe working environment by making sure health and safety regulations are followed and adhered to.
• Also report any worn out or torn PPEs for repairs or to management for replacement.
• Reporting on any damages to the green house, to maintenance team or to management for repairs. Ensure all
  working tools are in good working condition and are repaired in time.
• Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the immediate manager or senior management.

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Responsibilities for the Production Manager Job

Staff

• To recruit staff and allocate them to the various teams.
• To ensure that the field managers working in the section allocate daily work targets to staff and record performance of all team members
• To ensure that all labour in the section is effective and efficient and that all staff achieve the recommended daily tasks.
• To maintain staff discipline and welfare in accordance with the company policy.

Planning

• To plan all the farm/section operations for the month, week, and day in consultation with the farm manager.
• To ensure that all crop husbandries i.e. land preparation, planting, weeding, irrigation and spraying etc. are done to the highest possible standard.
• To confirm all picking predictions done by picking supervisors.
• To ensure that produce is picked on time, handled carefully and is of high quality in accordance with the set standards.
• To coordinate produce shading and transport to the pack house.
• To communicate with farms daily and make regular visit to confirm quality issues.

Audits / Standards

• To ensure the company field operations adhere to customer standards (as per audit guidelines). Handle and address any deviation on standards (customer responses).

Record Keeping

• To ensure that various team leaders, scouts and supervisors keep accurate records of all operations carried out in their section.
• Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time by the senior management.

Qualifications for the  Production Manager Job

• Bachelor of Science in Horticulture / BSc Agriculture Resource Management.
• Above 5 yrs. experience in a busy Agricultural Sector.
• Team player, dynamic and a great communicator.
• Salary: Competitive package.

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Role

• To coordinate all first aid activities on the farm and be Chief first aider in the farm.
• To sensitize all worker on the farm on importance of VCT and counselling.
• Carry out health screening of all workers joining the farm and those from sick leave or leave before proceeding to their work place.
• Administer nonprescriptive (over the counter) drugs as and when necessary.
• Identifying ailments that are selfinduced, i.e. drinking and it’s after effects, personal injuries and illnesses sustained outside the work place.
• Updating the general register as per the requirements of HOSSA, in regards to sickness, injuries and painting of buildings.
• To advise and be keen on identifying and advising managements on disease outbreaks that poses a threat to food contamination.
• To be the referral officer to cases that require advanced treatment to doctors and hospitals.
• In charge of monitoring and report to management progress of employee patients taken to hospitals either in or outpatients.

Health & safety

• To advise management on incidences of occupational diseases, and preventative/control methods and procedures.
• Responsible for all health and safety training on the farm.
• Coordinate all matters on health and safety in the farm
• Assist in the auditing of all health and safety issues.
• Trainings
  To liaise with the officials from the ministry of health on training programmes that might be of importance to farm workers i.e. HIV campaign awareness
• To coordinate all first aid training on the farm
• Health education trainings general hygiene practices like washing of hands before handling food, after visiting the toilet, general body hygiene etc.

Records

• Responsible for completion of data, reports, records related to sickness/ illness on the farm
• Keeping records on all injuries and accidents that occur on the farm by filling the
• General register for factories and other work place as prescribed by the ministry of labour under section 62 of the act.
• Keeping records on healthy screening of all workers joining the farm.

Qualifications for the Nurse Job

• Diploma/Degree in the relevant field
• Experience of not less than 2 yrs. in a Farming sector especially Veg/Flower farms
• Knowledge in Community Environment

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Purpose/ Objective: Oversee overall Technical and QA management functions for the Packing site.

Responsibilities for the Packhouse Technical Manager Job

• Oversee all the post harvest quality systems.
• Oversee development and implementation of relevant post harvest technical standards.
• Run the Day’s Orders and the Next Day’s Orders, and confirmations.
• Confirm and organize Production Boards, and processing efficiencies.
• Look at staff efficiency rates; organize them from most efficient to least efficient.
• Look at Raw Material utilization, stock reconciliations.
• Handle staff issues.
• Handle Packaging stocks, and orders and reorders for the same.
• Organize the Floor, Cells as per our discussions yesterday.
• Organize Sleeving on Line.
• Sign and confirm Shipments and confirm pack lists.
• Oversee development and implementation of the relevant technical SOPs.
• Develop, Implement and review the quality management systems for the packing systems for the pack sites.
• Liaise with the marketing teams in product specifications for customers.
• Coordinate compliance to specs while processing (Which include but not limited to cut stage,
  devitalisation process & cool chain management).
• Respond and correct issues on customer complaints.
• Develop documentation and participate in review of all technical data and implementation and review of
  the current internal procedures as need arises or as advised.
• Make and Implement a workable hygiene schedule for all sections of the pack house, develop rotas and
  compile a database for micro results.
• Investigate and advise on responses and customer complaints for out of specifications microbial or
  chemical levels.
• Documents control for the Pack house.
• Act as a point of contact for the technical department, ensuring that queries receive timely and accurate
  responses.
• Ensure all the cold rooms meet both hygiene and sanitation standards.
• Ensure a smooth workable traceability system of all flowers from farm to dispatch.
• Provide initiative in Developing, documenting and running of NPD/R&D department.
• Stock management and issue of quality status of processed and ungraded stocks.
• Ensure compliance to Environmental law/acts.
• Develop & ensure a workable Pest/Rodent management system.

Skills /Attributes Competencies

• Good cognitive skills
• Team player.
• Fast thinker.
• Sound IT knowledge.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• A strong personal initiative.
• Confidentiality.
  Good organization Skills.
• Able to work independently.
• Good decisionmaker.
• Attention to detail
• Broad thinker

Working contact

• Internal: With all Pack house Departments and Growing Department and Training Department.
• External: QA and Technical teams in the market
• Measure of performance:
• Effective communication with all departments in the company.
• Accurate and timely reports.
• Initiative.
• Achieve <0.3%market rejections.
• Achieve > 90% crop yields
• Maintain the required processes standards all through the process

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Responsibilities for the Health & Safety Job

• Support the development of OHS policies and programs.
• Advise and instruct on various safetyrelated topics.
• Conduct risk assessment and enforce preventive measures.
• Review existing policies and measures and update according to legislation
• Initiate and organise OHS training of employees.
• Inspect premises and the work of personnel to identify issues or nonconformity.
• Stop any unsafe acts or processes that seem dangerous or unhealthy.
• Record and investigate incidents to determine causes.
• Prepare reports on occurrences and provide statistical information to upper management.

Requirements for the Health & Safety Job

• Proven experience of above 3 yrs as safety officer in a farm company in a similar position.
• In depth knowledge of legislation (e.g. OSHA) and procedures.
• Experience in writing reports and policies for health and safety.
• Familiarity with conducting data analysis and reporting statistics.
• Proficient in MS Office; Working knowledge of safety management information systems is a plus.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Diligent with great attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present and explain health and safety topics
• Bachelor’s degree in safety management or relevant field is preferred
• Proven track record in Vegetable Audits, Vegetable Farm Audits, Flower Audits, Legal/Statutory Audits.