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Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation, Inc.
Job Description
Job Title
District Supervisor I or II
Service Location
Field Offices
FLSA Class
Exempt
Job Status
Regular
Reports To
Zone Manager
Job Type
Supervisory or Management
Job Summary
Works with the Zone Manager to manage all aspects of the eradication process within the district, coordinating and communicating with other supervisors. Provides leadership within the district, coordinating and communicating with other supervisors. Provides leadership within the zone/district management team and ideas and input to zone/district management about program requirements and organization. Position requires a high level of commitment, sound judgement, management, communication and problem-solving skills.
Responsible for all Foundation activities, protocol, guidelines and policies to eradicate the boll weevil in district work units. Coordinates and supervises all activities of personnel engaged in performing their job duties in assigned district offices. Checks crop stages and locates cotton fields within assigned district work units and maintains public relations with cotton growers having fields within assigned district work units. Uses computer software programs extensively, such as MapInfo, Weevil, Satloc, Del Norte, Wag, AgNav and MS Office, to compile and analyze program data.
Essential Duties
Eradication Program in District Work Units
- Assists other employees in program operations.
- Assists in the management of eradication activities throughout the zone/district and provides management input to zone/district staff, as requested.
- Prepares reports for the zone management on activities and accomplishments in district work units.
Managing Employees
- Coordinates and supervises employees assigned to district offices in performance of their specific duties/responsibilities necessary to fulfill eradication programs needs.
- Interviews, hires and trains employees for district office positions.
- Responsible for the completeness and accuracy of district personnel payroll records, such as timesheets, new hire paperwork and exit paperwork, and for the timeliness of submitting them to the Abilene Headquarters office.
- Maintains district documentation, such as application and personnel records, in accordance with Human Resources policies and procedures.
- Trains district office employees in on-the-job skills, protocol and procedures, as well as in Foundation safety rules, regulations and procedures.
- Monitors and verifies employees' time and attendance records.
- Appraises employee perfamance and takes disciplinary action as needed.
- Addresses emplyee complaints and resolves problems.
- Performs high level of quality control inspections and reviews tasks performed by supervised employees.
- Maintains a positive, well-organized and productive workplace.
- Assists in management of employees from multiple district offices, as requested.
Maps of District Work Units
- Works with FSA and cotton growers to locate current year's planted cotton fields.
- Works with staff to transfer grower information from Farm Service Agency (FSA) forms and maps to Foundation database and mapping software and to prepare computer-generated maps of cotton fields for trap inspection and spray activities.
Trapping Data from District Work Units
- Provides oversight in compiling and reviewing boll weevil trapping data to establish the location of boll weevil trap captures, determine the presence and degree of infestations, identify cotton-crop stages and problem fields and situations.
- Provides oversight in maintaining accurate records of trapping and spray activities for the fields in district work units.
- Performs a high level of quality control on trapping data, trap placement, inspection and protocol in district work-unit fields.
Spray Applications in District Work Units
- Communicates with Field Unit Managers/Supervisors to determine fields to be aerial or ground sprayed, based on trapping reports.
- Supervises the notification to producers and other parities of fields to be sprayed.
- Supervises the coordination and arrangement of spray applications for fields in assigned work units and communicates this information, as needed, to pilots, Ground Equipment Operators and Field Technicians.
- During aerial applications, maintains awareness of weather conditions in spray area through visual observation and radio communication and suspends application when conditions are unfavorable for proper spray application.
Safety
- Trains district employees in the Foundation's safety rules and regulations, emphasizing safe driving practices, safe working habits and required personal protection equipment and clothing.
- Responsible for ensuring that Foundation safety rules and regulations are followed by each district employee.
- Identifies and rectifies unsafe and hazardous working conditions and situations in the district.
- May accompany any injured district employee to healthcare provider.
- Responsible for complete, accurate and timely injury and accident reports.
- Maintains the district offices facilities in compliance with OSHA regulations. Responds to facility inspection corrective actions, if any, to remedy non-compliance situations.
- Ensures district employees have supplies necessary to complete their specific jobs, including applicable safey equipment and clothing.
- Arranges lab testing of district employees for compliance with Foundation's drug, alcohol and cholinesterase testing policies involving pre-employment and post-accident testing requirements, as directed by supervisor.
- Conducts regular meetings on safety topics applicable to district employees and their specific job duties.
- Completes vehicle maintenance and accident damage records as required for district vehicles and equipment.
Public Relations
- Contacts and communicates with the public, such as cotton growers, landowners, tenants, managers, county agents and FSA personnel, to inform them of eradication program activities, regulations and progress; to secure permission to conduct eradication program activities; to enforce quarantine regulations; and to encourage increased participation in, and cooperation with, the eradication program.
- Records any and all complaints and submits these to zone management. Immediately investigates all complaints to seek solution to reported problems.
Vehicles, Equipment and Supplies
- Responsible for the security/safeguarding of and accounting for the district office's petty cas, equipment and vehicle inventory.
- Coordinates with zone management for the purchase of district office repairs and supplies.
- Authorizes purchases and maintains the appropriate purchase documentation according to Foundation purchasing policies.
- Monitors vehicles, equipment and supplies in the district and works with staff to ensure supplies are available and vehicles and equipment are maintained.
Driving
- Follows safe-driving practices.
- Drives a Foundation vehicle from the office to the assigned worksite and back again in a safe manner to complete essential duties of the job.
- Reads, understands and follows maps of cotton fields and surrounding areas.
- Maintains complete vehicle mileage and gas records on assigned vehicle.
- Assigns vehicles and equipments to subordinate employees..
- Performs daily maintenance checks on assigned vehicle to ensure mechanical reliability and reports damage and mechanical problems to supervisor immediately.
Essential Job Requirements
District Supervisor I - Education/Experience Requirements
- Prefer college degree with major course work in agricultural studies and five years cotton field experience, two years of which include independent project responsibility in cotton management or consultation.
- One year of full-time, paid employment in cotton-field operations may be substituted for each year of college.
- Prefer one year's experience and proven proficiencey as a Field Unit Supervisor or Field Unit Manager.
District Supervisor II - Education/Experience Requirements
- Prefer college degree with major course work in agricultural studies and five years cotton field experience, two years of which include independent project responsibility in cotton management or consultation.
- One year of full-time, paid employment in cotton-field operations may be substituted for each year of college.
- Prefer one or more year's experience and proven proficiency as a District Supervisor I or in a similar management position.
Abilities Requirements
- Demonstrated leadership and organizational and personnel management skills.
- Drive a Foundation vehicle.
- Identify boll weevils and the characteristics of major insect pests.
- Read, write and speak English language at a college level.
- Write in a legible manner and compose routine reports and correspondence.
- Read, interpret and explain documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals.
- Interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
- Grasp basic principles of pest detection, mapping and map reading to quickly and accurately record data.
- Enter numbers into a handheld scanner.
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide two-digit numbers.
- Apply knowledge of complex computer concepts in using a computer workstation and software to effectively compile weevil data, create maps, track aerial applications, track employee time and attendance and write reports and correspondence.
- Use basic office equipemnt, such as fax machines, copiers, printers and scanners.
- Communicate clearly using a two-wy radio.
- Communicate clearly with supervisor and co-workers.
- Hear aircraft and radio communication.
- Read and follow cotton-field and road maps.
- Perform math operations using the U.S. system of measurement, volume and distance.
- Define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions about pest population.
- Speak effectively before groups of people.
- Think and move rapidly to deal with emergency situations.
Driving Requirements
- Have and maintain a valid driver’s license.
- Be insurable under the Foundation’s auto insurance guidelines.
Special Requirements
- Willing and able to work hours longer than norman office hours, which may include evenings, weekends and holidays.
- Regular attendance is an essential requirement for this position.
- Willing and able to provide blood samples as needed for ongoing cholinesterase monitoring program.
- Maintain valid State Non-commercial Political Pesticide Applicator's license.
Physical Requirements
Must be physically and mentally able to travel to and work in isolated, remote cotton fields. Work involves:
- Performing all essental duties and job responsibilities of this position in a safe and effective manner.
- Driving daily over extremely rough roads, ruts, washouts and slippery, muddy fields.
- Daily walking, hiking, climbing, standing, balancing, kneeling, stooping, bending, stretching and reaching in extremely rugged, cotton-field terrain, including walking across ditches and furrow, up and down steep banks, over muddy ground and through loose, shiffting sand.
- Working outside in all types of weather, including rain, extreme hot and cold temperatures and fierce, dusty winds.
- Frequent entering and exiting a Foundation vehicle throughout each day.
- Sitting and driving in a normal, seated position for extended periods of time in a vehicle.
- Sitting in a normal, seated position at a computer workstation for extended periods of time
- Hammering/driving wooden stakes into the ground.
- Using hands to manipulate equipment and plants or at a computer workstation.
- Medium work involving lifting 50lbs. maximum with frequent lifting and/or carrying of objects weighing up to 25lbs.
- Distance vision, depth perception and field of vision within normal parameters.
- Hearing ability within normal parameters.
Work Environment
The work environment includes both office and outdoor settings. Hazards in the work environment may involve the following:
- Work in an office environment where the noise level is normally low.
- Travel by vehicle to and from field offices, cotton fields and airports.
- Isolated work in remote cotton fields and county roads where noise level is normally low.
- Work at airports where the noise level is usually moderate to very noisy during aircraft takeoff and landing.
- Work with wooden stakes that may split and splinter when hammered.
- Exposure to stinging and biting insects.
- Exposure to poisonous plants, non-poisonous and poisonous snakes and other types of wildlife found in and around cotton fields and farmland, including mice, rats and other types of rodents.
- Possible exposure to chemicals, pesticides or herbicides associated with cotton fields and agriculture.
- Possible exposure to conditions consistent with airports, aircrafts and aerial applicators, including aircraft propellers and aircraft fuel.
How to apply
An application is required for all positions.
Current TBWEF employees must submit an updated application along with a résumé or a letter of consideration stating the reasons for seeking the new position and the applicant’s qualifications.
All others must complete an application for employment bearing the position title and announcement number. A résumé or letter of consideration should accompany the application. Previously submitted applications are not reviewed when new positions open. If you have submitted an application with the Foundation within a year, you may call the Human Resources Department and request to be considered for another position without completing a new application. Applications may be obtained at any TBWEF office or from the Foundation Web site at www.txbollweevil.org/Employment/MainJobs.htm and should be returned to Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation Inc., Attn: Human Resource Department, Box 5089, Abilene, TX 79608-5089 or by fax to (325) 672-5034. Inquiries about positions may be sent by e-mail to jobs@txbollweevil.org.
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