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This job was posted by https://idahoworks.gov : For more information, please see: https://idahoworks.gov/jobs/2297312 Title: Manager, Ag Operations

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 10,000+ 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

Direct the acquisition, storage, delivery and receiving of all raw product to maintain required plant operations consistent with quality requirements at the most favorable cost to the company.

Job Description

• Maintains safe work practices at all times and participates in safety programs.

{=html} <!-- --> - The incumbent reports to the Operations Manager together with the Quality Assurance, Office Personnel, Services, Production, Industrial Engineer and Engineering Managers. Close coordination is required with Management to assure raw product continuity and supply.

{=html} <!-- --> - This position is responsible to formulate plans and strategies for open market purchases and pre-season contracts; and then; together with the Operations Manager, to negotiate pre-season potato contracts, storage lease agreements, potato loading and hauling agreements and any other contractual requirements pertaining to raw product. The drafting, finalizing and ultimate execution of the legal instruments used in these agreements are at the direction of the Manager of Ag Operations.

{=html} <!-- --> - This position is responsible for raw product budget preparation, raw product price forecasts, raw product inventory management, pre-season contract and State potato production forecasts, as utilization and disappearance forecasts.

{=html} <!-- --> - To properly fulfill the requirements of this position, the incumbent must have knowledge in the area of plant science, budget preparation and forecasting, contact negotiations, and purchasing, storage control methods and productions and processing methods.

{=html} <!-- --> - Then incumbent\'s function is to develop, analyze compile and evaluate information that will be used by the incumbent and the Operations Manager in decision making in Pre-season contract negotiations and open market purchases. This position is responsible for all raw product procurement; formulating open market purchasing strategies and implementing those strategies; contract planning; contracting; budget planning; procurement of adequate storage facilities; inventory management and information systems; and scheduling to and from the storage. In addition, this position plays a vital part in assuring that research and best practices are being adopted by the grower and maintaining good long-term relationships with those growers.

{=html} <!-- --> - The Field Manager controls all field functions and assures that Field Management practices are in compliance with F deral and State Laws by staying abreast of new developments. In addition, this position has primary responsibility for studying and evaluating technological advances which may lead to better methods for growing harvesting and storing potatoes.

{=html} <!-- --> - Directs and coordinates the acquisition of raw product for the plant through contracting and open market purchases to assure that adequate quantities of raw product are obtained for production requirements at a competitive price.

{=html} <!-- --> - Analysis and prepares information used in formulating plans for pre-season contract negotiations, storage leases and on contract hauling, and actively participates in the negotiations with the Operations Manager to assure an adequate supply of raw product properly stored and delivered to the pant at competitive price.

{=html} <!-- --> - Formulates an open market purchase strategy by forecasting crop size, quality, utilization and disappearance to assure an adequate supply of raw product at the most favorable cost.

{=html} <!-- --> - Prepares raw product budgets and inventory management systems through proper placement of grower contracts and storage lease agreements to assure adequate quantities and quality of raw product.

{=html} <!-- --> - Maintains fair and consistent grower relations to assure the company\'s ability to meet future raw product requirements.

Researches, integrates and coordinates into field and production operations newly developed potato varieties and new techniques for growing, handling and sto