Agricultural Career Center
The Agricultural Career Center - presented by the Ohio AgriBusiness Association and Ohio's Country Journal/Ohio Ag Net - is Ohio's one-stop-shop for agriculture-related positions. Career seekers: explore open positions below.
Companies: Click here to submit your position or email your listing directly to Lauren Prettyman at lprettyman@oaba.net. Your position will be posted within 48 business hours and your listing will remain posted for up to 90 days.
Available Job Openings:
11/30/2023
District Program Administrator
Hancock Soil & Water Conservation District
Hancock Soil & Water Conservation District is currently seeking an experienced District Program Administrator to join their team.
The District Program Administrator is responsible for the overall management, coordination and administration of the Hancock SWCD; and, for meeting the objectives set forth by the Board of Supervisors as described in the annual Plan of Work and the Long Range/Strategic Plan.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Responsible for overall management and development of Hancock SWCD including program and related budgets, reporting requirements and business development.
- Maintain updated knowledge of programs and new initiatives.
- Provide accurate, timely information such as progress reports, budget information, etc. to the Hancock SWCD Board of Supervisors.
- Ensure District goals in Annual Plan of Work and Long Range/Strategic Plan are being achieved.
- Serves as day-to-day supervisor for the district office and all District staff members. Reporting directly to the Board of Supervisors. Provide supervision of staff including hiring, disciplining, evaluation and development; update the Board on issues and seek advise from the Board as directed
- Develop and provide leadership that advocates a team environment; establish and maintain effective communication avenues between the staff, the Board of Supervisors and partners.
- Identify and pursue potential revenue resources; develop annual budget; inform, and seek approval when required, from the Board of Supervisors of income, expenses and other operating issues.
- Develop and maintain relationships with public officials, funding sources and other community and state leaders.
- Other duties and responsibilities as directed by the Board of Supervisors.
- Maintains accounting records for the Special Fund, District Fund, Petty Cash, and other program/grant accounts as needed. Prepares a monthly financial report for presentation to the Board of Supervisors at the monthly board meetings.
- Maintains complete and accurate personnel records for all District employees. Makes certain that new employees are properly enrolled in all required programs and properly signed-up with the Hancock County Auditor's office.
- Maintains district files according to the District Record Retention Schedule.
- Responsible for keeping the District Supervisors informed on legislative changes/contacts, attorney general opinions, governmental directives, and other correspondence that may affect the operations of the district.
- Prepares district board meeting notices and agendas in consultation with the board chairman and mails them to the Board of Supervisors in advance of the board meetings. Attends all board meetings, takes notes, assembles/ prepares minutes and distributes all regular and special meeting minutes.
- Advise board of supervisors of election terms and expiration dates. Assist with election preparations and assumes responsibility of requesting ballots to be prepared by the ODNR Division of Soil and Water Conservation. Plans and coordinates the district Annual Meeting and Election.
- Assists with the preparation of district special activities such as; field days, tours, educational meetings, tree sales, fish sales, school tours, Soil and Water Stewardship Week observance, fair tent and display, etc.
- Maintains district property/inventory records and keeps records available for the auditor's inspection as required.
Additional Requirements
- Actively promote conservation initiatives and the mission of Hancock Soil and Water Conservation District.
- Knowledge and understanding of governing rules, working agreements, regulations and strategic plans specific to Hancock SWCD, Division of Soil Water Conservation – Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service and other conservation organizations.
- Attend internal and external meetings: some overnight travel is required.
- Pursue continuous education and professional development opportunities as identifies and directed.
- All duties and actions taken by the incumbent of this position while on official duty will be performed in a safe and healthful manner and will be of a nature to reflect favorably on the Hancock Soil & Water Conservation District.
11/22/2023
Commercial Account Manager
Bane-Welker Equipment
Bane-Welker is currently seeking an experienced Commercial Account Manager to join their team.
The Commercial Account Manager will contribute to the overall sales productivity and effectiveness of designated territory. A Commercial Account Manager is responsible for maintaining customer profiles and information, conducting routine follow-ups, and delivering timely responses to customer requests or needs. They must be capable of communicating with all departments to ensure customer satisfaction, retention, and growth is achieved while increasing their selling capability.
Primary Duties
- Set and achieve targeted and agreed-upon sales goals (volume and gross margins) to attain new and repeat clients in ways that are aligned with departmental objectives.
- Actively seek, identify and obtain new prospects and increased opportunity with existing prospects in ways that lead to increased sales.
- Effectively follow successful sales processes that ensures the account has an excellent buying experience, including the timely completion of all paperwork and after sales follow-up activities.
- Set and monitor progress toward agreed-upon sales goals and manage/prioritize work to achieve progress toward yearly, monthly, weekly and daily sales goals against key performance indicators.
- Actively seek, identify and obtain new prospects in ways that lead to increased sales.
- Build and maintain positive account relationships to strengthen loyalty, partnership, and company reputation.
- Successfully partner with and consult strategic accounts in a way that leads to sustainable repeat business, including in process, current, future, and past clients.
- Proactively support and work with other employees, departments and/or locations to give the account a seamless experience in ways that promote teamwork and increase overall customer support and partnership satisfaction.
- Continually improve personal selling capabilities in order to respond to customer needs in a more effective manner.
- Continually learn and apply new selling skills, strategies and techniques on a daily, monthly and yearly basis.
- Develop and maintain a high level of product, market and industry knowledge.
- Utilize Bane- Welker programs and promotions effectively to deepen customer relationships.
Skills/Qualifications
- Proven ability to maintain customer relationships and cultivate new customers for future growth.
- Demonstrate strong negotiation, relationship building and influencing skills and behaviors.
- Demonstrate the skills and behaviors required to handle moderate to large complex deals, and moderate to high volume.
- Demonstrate organizational ability and systematic timing.
- Ability to demonstrate the core values of Bane-Welker.
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Travel required, must have a valid driver’s license.
Reports to the Commercial Division General Manager.
Bane-Welker Equipment reserves the right to modify, interpret or apply this job description in any way the company desires. This job description in no way implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee occupying this position. Employees are required to perform any other functions or duties assigned to them by management. This job description is not an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The employment relationship remains “at-will”. Listed are just some of the additional requirements: sitting, standing, climbing, lifting, grasping, reaching, stooping, and crouching, speaking, listening and motor coordination skills.
11/21/2023
Grain Handler Full Time & Seasonal at 3 Locations
Deerfield Ag Services
Deerfield Ag Services is seeking highly motivated individuals for Grain Handlers – full-time and seasonal at three locations.
Deerfield Ag Services is a family-owned full-service agricultural services provider. Do you like to work outdoors? We are in need of Grain Handlers to assist the Team with proper handling, loading, unloading, and cleanup.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Be a flexible, dependable Team member and allow your Team to help you learn the important duties of working with grain
- Directing Trucks to appropriate bin for dumping & loading
- Load outbound & dump inbound trucks
- Perform regular clean-up of pits, bins, facility grounds, sweeping and weed control
Skills & Qualifications
- Desire to be part of a hardworking Team
- Farming background is a plus
Day shift, some evenings, Saturdays and Sunday required in July and September-December. Work beyond scheduled hours required during peak season.
Interested parties can send resumes to HR@Deerfieldagservices.com.
11/01/2023
Precision Technology Intern
Bane-Welker Equipment
Bane-Welker is currently seeking a Precision Technology Intern to join their team.
The Precision Technology Department is an essential piece to the success of the business and customer experience at Bane-Welker. The precision technology intern is responsible for assisting with product selling, installation, troubleshooting, and data management. Throughout this internship, the intern will gain knowledge in equipment technology, customer relations and selling.
Dates: May to August
Location: IN or OH
Education Specifications:
- Sophomore or Junior Status
- Major in Agriculture Business, Business Management, Business Analytics, Agriculture Systems Management, Engineering, or similar major
Principal Responsibilities:
- Conduct product research to better understand each precision technology product line and offering
- Participate in product recommendations, installations and troubleshooting to ensure customer operations are productive and efficient
- Manage assigned summer projects to develop department and business goals
- Provide project updates to managers regarding updates and timelines
- Utilize product and customer knowledge to develop data management information for internal and external use
- Develop project implementation plan and follow- through
- Draft internal and external promotional materials to enhance the understanding of the AFS department
- Review and recommend growth opportunities throughout the territory
- Facilitate shadows with employees to experience all departments
Requirements of Position:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to learn and develop in new areas
- Ability to be a self-starter
- Present to large group of professionals with poise
- Ability to solve problems accurately and efficiently in a fast- paced environment
- Strong interpersonal and customer relation skills
- Ability to travel for work related assignments
- Basic knowledge of agriculture equipment
11/01/2023
Sales & Marketing Intern
Bane-Welker Equipment
Bane-Welker is currently seeking a Sales & Marketing Intern to join their team.
The sales & marketing Intern will see firsthand the role of the parts, service, sales, and precision technology departments and how each plays a role in the profitability of the business. Throughout the summer, the intern’s main project is to create a marketing plan to grow the sales of a specific parts product while maintaining a marketing budget. The intern will rotate between parts, sales, and service and will work on other projects to lead in improving overall business goals.
Dates: May to August
Location: IN or OH
Education Specifications:
- Freshman, Sophomore or Junior Status
- Major in Agriculture Business, Communications, Agriculture Systems Management, or similar Agriculture/Business major
Principal Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with all departments at territory store to select a parts product to promote and sell
- Build marketing plan to promote and grow the sales of selected product, while utilizing an allotted budget
- Track marketing budget spent to promote selected products
- Analyze the effect of marketing dollars on profit margin generated
- Manage assigned projects while working to improve business objectives
- Develop and lead new projects in various departments to reach business objectives
- Facilitate shadows with employees to experience each department
- Communicate project updates and timelines to managers
- Utilize various business systems to gather data and analysis for projects
- Review and recommend growth opportunities throughout the assigned territory
Requirements of Position:
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to learn and develop in new areas
- Ability to be a self-starter
- Present to large group of professionals with poise
- Ability to solve problems accurately and efficiently in a fast- paced environment
- Strong interpersonal and customer relations skills
- Ability to travel for work related assignments
- Basic knowledge of agriculture equipment
- Ability to analyze and interpret sales reports
11/01/2023
Technician
Bane-Welker Equipment
Bane-Welker is currently seeking an experienced Technician to join their team.
The Service Department is an integral piece to the success of the business and customer experience at Bane-Welker. A Technician is responsible for performing repair and maintenance work on equipment, in a timely manner, as assigned by the Service Manager. Technicians must have outstanding mechanical knowledge including hydraulic, electrical, and diagnostic skills.
Primary Duties
- Consistently achieve agreed-upon productivity and billable efficiency goals.
- Successfully complete assigned jobs in an efficient manner while effectively communicating with customers resulting in customer satisfaction when appropriate.
- Complete and process all paperwork for each assignment in a timely, consistent, and accurate manner.
- Participate in required training and also take personal initiative to stay up to date on relevant service knowledge, bulletins and other changes regarding new and existing products.
- Appropriately assist other technicians when required.
- Provide input relating to product information, quality, warranty, and other unit performance information.
- Maintains vigilance for methods of effecting cost reductions or revenue increases and reports observations to the service manager.
- Transports and delivers or picks-up equipment, machines or parts as needed, always loading, and securing carefully to ensure no damage by transport.
- Performs equipment checks both before and after transport to avoid transport damage claims and gives customer instructions for basic operation.
- Performs set up or pre-delivery inspections on new or used equipment as prescribed by manufacturer’s manual.
- Performs all field service assignments promptly and efficiently with a minimum of non-billable comebacks.
- Effectively comply with all safety, tools, and other job-related requirements.
- Follow all safety, environmental and regulatory compliance protocols, policies and requirements.
- Maintain a clean and organized work environment.
- Maintain tools and equipment, and notify the Service Manager if tools need replacement, or new tools are needed.
- Provide and/or maintain the tools required to efficiently complete assigned work.
- Operate, maintain, and account for company equipment and vehicles.
- Maintain appropriate licenses and certifications.
Skills/Qualifications
- Must have a customer focused and “be of service” attitude.
- Demonstrate organizational ability and systematic timing.
- Proven knowledge of methods, materials, and tools used in the repair of agricultural equipment.
- Possess adequate knowledge of work processes and requirements for both physical labor, shop equipment, and safety procedures.
- Must be familiar with the dealer’s line of equipment.
- Ability to demonstrate the core values of Bane-Welker.
- Ability to maintain customer relationships and cultivate new customers for future growth.
- Possess mechanical ability and familiarization with testing equipment and diagnostic procedures.
- Be experienced in operating vehicles and equipment used for diagnostic purposes.
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
10/04/2023
Receiving Operator
Nature Pure, LLC
Nature Pure LLC is seeking highly motivated individuals for Receiving Operator in Raymond, Ohio.
The Receiving Operator is responsible for receiving inbound ingredients in accordance with standard operating procedures established at the feed mill. The operator will be responsible for operating the computer automation systems required to receive ingredients. The operator will operate the receiving equipment according to established standard operating procedures. In addition to feed manufacturing, the operator will perform housekeeping activities, maintenance and repair of equipment, and quality checks on the ingredients. The operator is responsible for compliance with all company policies, local, state, and federal policies, laws, and regulations.
Job Duties & Responsibilities
Specific job duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Operate manufacturing equipment.
- Operate the automation system.
- Receive ingredients in accordance with quality assurance policies, standard operating procedures, and Current Good Manufacturing Practices.
- Sample ingredients and perform quality assurance tests.
- Collect grain samples in accordance with the sampling plan.
- Weighing grain trucks/ probing and unloading.
- Perform preventive maintenance on equipment.
- Perform routine housekeeping.
- Operate forklift.
- Comply with all company policies.
- Comply with all local, state, and federal laws, and regulations.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills & Experience
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and ability required.
- A minimum requirement of a high school degree or equivalent.
- Knowledge of feed manufacturing equipment operation and maintenance.
- Ability to lift 60 pounds, climb ladders, and operate a pallet jack with 2,000 pounds of material.
Hours worked per week are 50-60 hours, Monday through Saturday.
09/26/2023
Regional Sales Representative
Safegrain
Safegrain is seeking to hire a highly skilled individual as a Regional Sales Representative in Dayton, Ohio, to sell Safegrain’s full line of products to new and existing customers in the grain storage and handling industry and provide light technical and diagnostics support to customers.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
- Serves customers by selling products and meeting customer needs.
- Services existing accounts, obtains orders, and establishes new accounts by planning and
organizing daily work schedule to call on existing or potential sales outlets and other trade
factors. - Focuses sales efforts by studying existing and potential volume of customers.
- Keeps management informed by submitting activity and results reports, such as daily call reports, weekly work plans, and monthly and annual territory analyses.
- Monitors competition by gathering current marketplace information on pricing, products, and new products
- Recommends changes in products, service, and policy by evaluating results and competitive developments.
- Resolves customer complaints by investigating problems, developing solutions, preparing reports, and making recommendations to management.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending trade shows, educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Skills & Experience
Preferred
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience
- Knowledge of grain handling operations
Required
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to travel within territory overnight
- Basic level of AutoCAD
- Strong presentation skills
- 3+ years of sales experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary and commission
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401k with company match
- Car allowance
- Expense reimbursement
