First-Line Supervisors and Manager/Supervisors - Agricultural Crop Workers

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of agricultural crop workers. Manager/Supervisors are generally found in smaller establishments where they perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work, and may also engage in the same agricultural work as the workers they supervise.

Job Task

• Prepares time, payroll, and production reports, such as farm conditions, amount of yield, machinery breakdowns, and labor problems.
• Directs or assists in adjustment, repair, and maintenance of farm machinery and equipment.
• Trains workers in methods of field work and safety regulations, and briefs them on identifying characteristic of insects and diseases.
• Contracts with seasonal workers and farmers to provide employment, and arranges for transportation, equipment, and living quarters.
• Recruits, hires, and discharges workers.
• Inspects crops and fields to determine maturity, yield, infestation, or work requirements, such as cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting.
• Assigns duties, such as tilling soil, planting, irrigating, storing crops, and maintaining machines, and assigns fields or rows to workers.
• Determines number and kind of workers needed to perform required work, and schedules activities.
• Observes workers to detect inefficient and unsafe work procedures or identify problems, and initiates actions to correct improper procedure or solve problem.
• Issues farm implements and machinery, ladders, or containers to workers and collects them at end of workday.
• Investigates grievances and settles disputes to maintain harmony among workers.
• Opens gate to permit entry of water into ditches or pipes, and signals worker to start flow of water to irrigate fields.
• Drives and operates farm machinery, such as trucks, tractors, or self-propelled harvesters, to transport workers or cultivate and harvest fields.
• Requisitions and purchases farm supplies, such as insecticides, machine parts or lubricants, and tools.
• Confers with manager to evaluate weather and soil conditions and to develop and revise plans and procedures.

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