Sr Ag Operations Specialist
Lamb Weston

Title: Sr Ag Operations Specialist

Location: Twin Falls, ID

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 9,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

Job Description Summary
This position is responsible for acting as a liaison between the company and growers. Responsibilities for this position include performing data analytics, administering commodity contracts, sampling, and evaluating crops, working with the growers on their field and storage management and building strong relations while representing the company within the grower community. This position will also assist the Ag Service group to interact across multi-functional groups ensuring that company business objectives are top of mind.

Job Description

• Grower Service, Education and Crop Inspection
  
• Grower Contracting
  
• Seed Quality Evaluation
  
• Harvest management and coordination
  
• Storage management, monitoring and evaluation
  
• Responsible for maintaining food safety and quality
  
• Plant Specific Duties as Assigned
  
• Provides regular updates of crop and storage conditions to peer group
  
• Ensure raw product information is gathered, without error, analyzed and presented in a manner that can efficiently be used to make timely raw product decisions. Supervise sampling of field and storage raw product used for dispositioning decisions. Supervise sampling of field and storage raw product used to determine grower payment.
  
• Maintains safe work practices and participates in company safety programs.
  
• Train and supervise subordinates in safety and accident prevention practices
  
• Must be able to work as a team by supporting peer group and open to accepting direction to keep team on path to departmental goals.
  
• Responsible for training, evaluation, and direction of employees under the Sr. Ag Operation Specialist' supervision in the use of company owned equipment.
  
• Must assure that the storage locations, field equipment and the operations of the equipment are compliant with Lamb-Weston and all regulatory agencies standards.
  
• Keeps up with current technological developments which could result in improved safety performance, and cost savings to Lamb-Weston
  
• Maintains automotive equipment, ensuring scheduling of needed repair or service work
  

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Agriculture or related field preferred
  
• Three-year related experience preferred
  
• Knowledge of agronomic characteristics for potato crops
  
• Must be self-motivated and open to overcoming complex situations with minimal direction
  
• Must have the ability to work between multiple facilities to support production across multiple plant locations
  
• Must have the ability for daily travel which will be substantial through storage and growing areas
  
• Basic mechanical understanding of Ag equipment operations
  
• Must be able to build an effective relationship with the grower community
  
• Must be able to complete LW Process Quality Program
  
• Must possess a valid driver's license and meet Company driving standards
  
• Must possess solid PC skills, to include Windows, Word, Outlook, and Excel
  
• Able to work additional hours, including weekends as needed
  
• Forklift experience desired
  

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive. Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision
  
• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts
  
• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program
  
• Paid Time Off
  
• Financial Wellness - Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance
  
• Family-Friendly Employee events
  
• Employee Assistance Program services - mental health and other concierge type services
  

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Job Requisition ID: Req-234792

Time Type: Full time

Anticipated Close Date: 07/05/2024

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role based on the variables previously mentioned is: $74,190.00 - $111,300.00

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law

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