Job Title: General Manager

Department: Admin

DEPARTMENT: Admin
COMPANY: RD Farms
LOCATION: Madang Papua New Guinea
Main Duties
  1. Plan finances and production to maintain farm progress against budget parameters.
  2. Oversee practical activities, such as driving tractors, operating machinery, feeding livestock or spraying fields.
  3. Ensure overall production targets are met
  4. Marketing of products
  5. Thorough planning on preventive maintenance and repair of farm buildings, machinery and equipment
  6. Plan activities for trainee staff, mentoring and monitoring them
  7. Maintain and monitor the quality of yield, whether livestock or crops
  8. Understand the implications of the weather and make contingency plans
  9. Ensure current government regulations concerning farm activities are complied with
  10. Ensure that farm activities comply with government regulations
  11. Monitor animal health and welfare, including liaising with vets
  12. Apply health and safety standards across the farm estate
  13. Protect the environment and maintaining biodiversity
  14. Keep financial records up to date.
Qualifications:

Previous hands-on farming experience and technical knowledge are as important as academic qualifications hold at least a degree or foundation degree in agriculture or a related subject such as:

  • Highly versed on Poultry production and Dressing Plant processes
  • Agricultural engineering
  • Farm business management
  • Veterinary Medicine
  • Willing to travel abroad

At least Five years recent experience as Senior Management Level General Manager in an integrated Poultry Farm. (Layers/Egg production, hatchery, breeders, chicken dressing plant, etc.) 

 Personal Qualities

  1. High energy level, comfortable performing multifaceted projects in conjunction with day-to-day activities.
  2. Superior interpersonal abilities. Ability to get along with people at all levels.
  3. Good reasoning abilities. Sound judgment.
  4. Good communication skills.
  5. Resourceful and well organized.
  6. Ability to establish credibility and be decisive.
  7. Organizational and time-management skills
  8. The ability to work under pressure
  9. Supervisory skills and management ability
  10. Numerical aptitude
  11. Willingness to be outside in all weathers and patience to undertake all sorts of practical, sometimes repetitive jobs
  12. A full driving license
  13. Self-motivation, with the ability to motivate others
  14. Larger-scale business awareness
  15. Marketing skills
  16. Negotiation skills
  17. Genuine commitment to farming
  18. Good technical knowledge
  19. A good understanding of modern farming methods
  20. A commitment to animal welfare
  21. An understanding of the ways in which farming impacts the environment.

REQUIRMENTS:

Interested applicants may submit application letter, resume, and transcript of records.

RECRUITMENT TEAM:

Corporate People Management Department

1st Road, Calumpang, General Santos City

For Inquiries, look for Ms. Remedios G. Sigarra

E-mail address: rgsigarra@rdcorp.com.ph

Tel.no. 63 (83) 554 3173 local 227

DEADLINE: ASAP