Operations Technician - Seasonal
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Landus
Rockwell City, IA, US
Summary
Responsible for outside agronomy and grain operations, including receiving, drying, and loading grain. The role also involves managing fertilizer and chemical operations and providing customer service to maintain sales.
Job Description
Description
How will you have an impact in this role?
We are seeking a motivated individual to be part of the Landus team who will be responsible for our outside agronomy and grain operations. At Landus, you’ll find a fun team atmosphere and a stable career.
What would you do?
- Greet all customers promptly and courteously
- Maintain and increase agronomy and feed sales, grain origination and marketing with existing customers and grow business with new customers, as applicable.
- Assist in all aspects of the elevator operations, if applicable to location.
- Receiving and unloading grain operations.
- Grain drying operations.
- Measuring grain inventory on a weekly/monthly basis.
- Grain train loading operations including cleaning and sealing cars.
- Keeping facility clean, safe and housekeeping records current.
- Maintain grain condition by testing temperatures and blending.
- Assist in all aspects of the fertilizer and chemical operations, if applicable to location.
- Measure inventory and report it to the supervisor.
- Assist in unloading bulk and packaged product.
- Provide customer service by and loading chemical product orders.
- Maintain and repair equipment as needed.
- Pumping bulk chemicals into customer tanks.
- Tender to applicators.
- Fill NH3 nurse tanks during season.
- Understand basic agronomy chemistry of all products.
Requirements
The ideal candidate will have:
- Must have a valid driver’s license.
- Must be able to move/lift up to 50 pounds; occasionally up to 100 pounds.
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED)
- Understand the seasonality of an agricultural cooperative and the in-season time commitment.
Other skills that will help you succeed:
- Be able to obtain a Class A CDL with air brake, tanker, and HazMat endorsements.
- Participate in company DOT drug and alcohol program and maintain current DOT physical.
- Good computer skills.
Are you ready to join the Landus Team? If so, click Apply!
Equal Opportunity Employer/Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled
The Landus mission is simple: we want to steward a secure food and fuel future by uplifting and connecting farmers to a global market.
As a farmer-owned cooperative headquartered in Iowa, Landus elevates thousands of farmers in communities throughout rural America. By activating the power of data to connect key contributors across the ag supply chain, we’re helping farmers build sustainable and profitable businesses and activating a more secure future for farmers and consumers alike.
Our diversified farmer-owned cooperative offers precision agronomy services with approximately 40 agronomists on staff, a proprietary, AcreEdge® Performance Portfolio, expert grain marketing services; and corn and soybean processing including a facility in Ralston, Iowa, which manufactures SoyPlus®, a high bypass protein soybean meal for dairy herds across the globe.
Founded
2016
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Farming
Org type
Self-Owned
Headquarters
Des Moines, Iowa
The Landus mission is simple: we want to steward a secure food and fuel future by uplifting and connecting farmers to a global market.
As a farmer-owned cooperative headquartered in Iowa, Landus elevates thousands of farmers in communities throughout rural America. By activating the power of data to connect key contributors across the ag supply chain, we’re helping farmers build sustainable and profitable businesses and activating a more secure future for farmers and consumers alike.
Our diversified farmer-owned cooperative offers precision agronomy services with approximately 40 agronomists on staff, a proprietary, AcreEdge® Performance Portfolio, expert grain marketing services; and corn and soybean processing including a facility in Ralston, Iowa, which manufactures SoyPlus®, a high bypass protein soybean meal for dairy herds across the globe.
Founded
2016
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Farming
Org type
Self-Owned
Headquarters
Des Moines, Iowa
