Asst Manager FT
On-sitePocahontas, Arkansas, United States
Job Summary
Manage labor and production teams at Biehle and McBride locations while overseeing logistics, grading, and fescue buying operations. Coordinate feed milling, grain handling, and seed processing to improve product quality, and lead the Division Safety Program by facilitating communication with corporate staff and ensuring mandatory training access. Directly supervise all Biehle employees except maintenance, while promoting sales efforts across agronomy, grain merchandising, and retail support. Assist the Sales and Nutrition Managers in sales, delivery, and quality control, and actively participate in weekly grain marketing meetings to drive customer origination. Prepare strategic growth plans for the Agricultural Division and ensure visibility during harvest to manage workload flow.
Required Qualifications
- Experience managing labor and production people
- Experience managing logistics and grading piece of grain buying operations
- Experience managing sales, delivery and quality control efforts
- Knowledge of grain merchandising
- Experience coordinating customer contact programs with emphasis on Target Contract Offers and basic grain origination
- Ability to participate in weekly grain marketing meetings
- Experience talking to customers about grain origination
- Experience managing feed milling activities
- Experience managing grain handling activities
- Experience managing small package production
- Experience managing seed processing
- Experience improving pellet quality
- Experience improving overall product quality
- Experience improving grain quality
- Experience managing Division Safety Program
- Experience facilitating communication between Division and Corporate Safety and Loss Prevention Staff
- Experience conducting safety meetings
- Experience ensuring employees have access to Safety Videos and Safety Training Information
- Experience developing operational excellence in efficiency and quality control
- Experience directly supervising employees
- Experience promoting sales efforts in Agronomy, Grain Merchandising, Grass Seed, Animal Feeds, Veterinary Supplies and Retail Store Support
- Experience preparing overall strategic plans for growth of an Agricultural Division
- Experience managing harvest workload
- Experience ensuring quality and condition of grains, grass seeds, products and feed ingredients
- Ability to be visible during harvest times
- Ability to work additional hours to manage harvest flow
- Motivation to develop and retain staff members
- Delegation skills
- Verbal communication skills
- Writing skills
- Listening skills
- Administrative skills
- Problem solving skills at a strategic and functional level
- Presentation skills
- Ability to communicate on several levels
- Honesty
- Commitment
- Strong work ethic
- Results orientation
- Safety first attitude
- Self-motivation
- Team player mindset
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