Navajo Agricultural Products Industry

ON-FARM DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

General Duties & Responsibilities

  • Develop deliverables related to project initiation including feasibility studies, risk assessment, project proposals, resource management, project scheduling, and quality control procedures.
  • Monitor project progress, deliverables, quality control, and customer service. Report status to management and identify and resolve risks that impact project completion. Manage time and budget, initiate action to identify and resolve problems, and ensure goals are met. Coordinates planning, development, testing, documentation, and installation of project to ensure timely deliverables, project success and quality.
  • Adjusts resources as necessary to ensure project success and completion. Provide work direction and feedback to all team members. Provide guidance to team members on administrative and technical problems. Providing customer service by developing team behaviors and empowering team members to plan and execute work. Assist in staffing activities related to project.
  • Develop processes as necessary to ensure critical projects are completed; provide expertise in identifying appropriate methodologies for large-scale development efforts.
  • Coordinate and direct entitlement, design construction, and transfer of projects.
  • Consult or negotiate with clients to prepare project specifications.
  • Prepares and explain proposals, reports, and findings to clients and management.
  • Direct, review, and approve design, budgets and schedules.
  • Prepares and explains proposals, reports, and findings to clients and management.
  • Perform administrative functions such as developing reports, approving expenditures, enforcing policy, and staff development.
  • Prepare budgets, bids, and contracts, and direct the negotiation of contracts.
  • Perform administrative functions on routine and major preventative maintenance of heavy equipment fleet.
  • Confer with management (Executive/Department/Crop) to discuss project specifications, updates, procedures and other relevant information on a consistent and timely basis.
  • Review and recommend sub-contracts and cost estimates, scopes of work, and budgets.
  • Coordinate and assist in the planning, design, and installation of irrigation systems.
  • Maintain consistent communication with the Irrigation and Operations & Maintenance Manager concerning Irrigation components.
  • Develop and Implement Radio Telemetry unit in setting, monitoring, and programming systems to communicate with Base Station.
  • Prepare work orders for supplies or materials to complete construction projects.
  • Maintain and catalog preventative and replacement maintenance on all Technical Services heavy equipment. Procurement of new or used or rebuilt heavy equipment.

Supervisory Duties and Responsibilities

  • Manages and supervises the work unit in keeping with applicable laws and regulations; and NAPI’s policies, guidelines, and Navajo affirmative action policies.
  • Leads, directs and supervises reporting personnel including work procedures, workloads and work schedules by directing the workflow in such a manner as to promote productive efficiency of employees.
  • Identifies the developmental needs of employees in department and coaches, mentors, trains, or otherwise helps others to improve their knowledge or skills.
  • Manages performance of assigned direct reports and others in the work unit; conducts employee performance reviews for assigned staff, properly documents corrective action, performance improvement plans, and disciplinary actions, and salary adjustments in accordance with NAPI policy.
  • Ensures a safe working environment, and oversees compliance with applicable OSHA and other laws, regulations, and work rules concerning environmental safety and health by employees; assists with accident/injury investigations as directed by the Safety or HR department.
  • Establishes an effective flow of communication and information to ensure that problems can be responsibly solved and that support is provided to the staff as needed.
  • Observes, receives, and otherwise obtains information from all relevant sources as well as handling complaints, settling disputes and resolving conflicts or otherwise negotiating with others, and prepares reports of findings, in accordance with NAPI Policies & Procedures.

Other

  • Works collaboratively, cooperatively, and in coordination with fellow team members and with others in the organization, treats them with respect, courtesy and consideration, and shows understanding and the appropriate support of other team members to help get the job done.
  • Provides information, guidance and resources to diverse groups of customers, clients and others outside of the organization; treats them in a friendly manner with professionalism, helpfulness, respect, courtesy and consideration at all times regardless of circumstances.
  • Maintains regular, dependable attendance and punctuality, and physical presence at the assigned worksite; must interact directly with people or objects at the worksite on a regular basis. Communications technology may, for certain tasks and under certain circumstances, enable an employee to effectively perform some of the work-related duties from home on a temporary basis.
  • Performs other duties as assigned and which are deemed necessary or desirable by NAPI.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    Farming

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