Farm Manager

Our client, dealing in dairy and beef farming is looking to hire a Farm Manager reporting to the Managing Director. The main responsibility of this role is to ensure that the farms are operating at full capacity at all times.

The Primary Duties of this role will include:

• Overall farm management and administration
• Planning and supervision of all farm operations.
• Budgeting and expenditure control.
• Making and forwarding all reports concerning the farm e.g. Monthly reports, weekly reports, accident reports etc.
• Training, demonstrating and guiding on various farm operations.
• Ensuring security accountability and good custody of company assets, information and resources.
• Carrying out experiments at the farm level.
• Dealing with staff welfare, solving problems and personnel issues e.g. employing casuals
• Maintaining good public relations about the farm

Required Qualities – The ideal candidate will:

• Be experienced in Forage and Dairy/Beef farming
• Be able to work with minimum supervision
• Be innovative, enthusiastic and energetic

Required Skills – The ideal candidate will:

• Possess leadership skills
• Have good communication and interpersonal skills
• Have good reporting skills
• Be highly organised, paying close attention to detail and have effective time management skills

Qualifications

• Minimum – Diploma in Agriculture or Animal Husbandry 5 years working experience, 2 in managerial position
• Be Computer literate.

The starting salary for this position is Ksh 70,000 gross. The ideal candidate should be aged between 35 and 40 years.

If you are interested in the position and have the skills we are looking for, we would like to hear from you.

Please forward an application letter indicating your suitability to this role, together with a copy of your updated resume to recruit@tgagroupea.com by end of day Friday 1st April 2011

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