Potato Grading Supervisor

Longtrail Farms is currently looking for a full time Potato Grading Supervisor to join our team located in Parilla, Southern Mallee. This hands-on position is responsible for undertaking and supervising accurate and safe horticultural potato grading. Ensuring the team is high-performing and safety focused is essential whilst delivering to operational requirements of the farm.

Great things about Longtrail

• We invest in our people and their development. If there's a course you want to do, let us know!

• We look after our gear and your work environment. We want you to be a key part in planning the infrastructure and technology for the future.

• We socialise together. Birthday morning teas, Friday night knock offs, field day trips.

About the role:

• Reporting to the Potato Operations Manager, you will undertake and provide supervision of staff handling horticultural products ensuring the adherence of safety policies including wearing appropriate personal protective equipment.

• You will be responsible for ensuring the quality of the load, leading the team on discarding inferior or defective potatoes or foreign matter during active potato harvest operations.

• You will need to ensure timely management of the load, all required paperwork for transport, and communicating on behalf of the team to management.

• This role involves a lot of physical work requiring considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling of materials.

• There will be times when this role will undertake general farm duties including but not limited to livestock and broadacre cropping operations to ensure all farm operations have appropriate back-up and coverage across the team.

About you:

• You will have experience with hands-on supervision and training of a small team

• You will be an excellent communicator both to your team, peers and management

• You will be able and willing to meet the physical demands of the position

• You will have a positive attitude, strong initiative and work ethic

• You will be flexible to work weekends and extended hours through busy periods

Parilla is within 20 minutes from both Lameroo and Pinnaroo towns which have strong communities with a variety of sports clubs and schooling available. Longtrail has housing available.

Applications will be processed during the advertising period, please apply as soon as possible.

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