Assistant Farm Manager

WHY JOIN SUPER-SOD?

Super-Sod is an organization that has a 70-year reputation for outstanding leadership, innovation, and expertise. Our employees use their creativity and talent to invent new solutions, meet new demands, and offer the most effective services and products in the industry. With your active involvement, creativity, and support, Super-Sod will continue to achieve its goals.

Super-Sod offers a welcoming environment to both our customers and employees. Our teams work highly collaboratively and are proud of the dynamic culture which cultivates company-wide growth and teamwork. Super-Sod employees stand out as being industry professionals who offer knowledge, experience, and a passion to serve.

In turn, the Company provides our family of employees’ competitive wage and benefit offerings to ensure their needs are exceeded and their own families are provided for. In addition to numerous awards for quality products, Super-Sod is honored to be consecutively named a Top Workplace by the Atlanta Journal Constitution year after year.

In addition to good working conditions and competitive pay, it is Super-Sod’s policy to provide a combination of supplemental benefits to all eligible employees. In keeping with this goal, each benefit program has been carefully devised. These benefits include flexible paid time-off, such as vacations and holidays, as well as comprehensive and innovative health and wellness plans that include products like medical, dental, vision, HSA, and supplemental life, accident, hospital, and critical illness.

We are constantly studying and evaluating our benefit programs and policies to better meet present and future requirements. These policies have been developed over the years and continue to be refined to keep up with changing times and needs.

Are you a hands-on leader with a passion for agriculture and a commitment to quality?

We’re looking for an Assistant Sod Farm Manager to help oversee daily operations and support the production of high-quality turf-grass. In this role, you’ll work closely with the farm manager to coordinate crews, maintain equipment, and ensure efficient, timely harvests. If you’re proactive, detail-oriented, and thrive in an outdoor, team-focused environment, we’d love to hear from you.

As a Super-Sod Assistant Farm Manager, you will be responsible for leading machine operators and farm crews in the day-to-day operations of harvesting and other farm-related activities. You’ll play a key role in maintaining productivity and efficiency across the farm, ensuring that people, equipment, and materials are working in sync. Your leadership will help drive continuous improvement, with a strong focus on both customer satisfaction and team performance.

Essential Functions

1. Manages policy deployment in the areas of lean harvesting techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls and performance measures.
2. Provides leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training and development.
3. Provides leadership for problem resolution to facilitate faster improvements and improved working relationships.
4. Manages material requirements to increase inventory turns and reduce levels on hand.
5. Ensures compliance with company standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and complete and on-time delivery.
6. Balances work cell capacity/loading across the farm.
7. Determines operations head count needs and ensures compliance with company policies.
8. Research equipment for future company needs for capital investments and improvement projects.
9. Manages compliance with state and federal regulations.
10. Oversees operational proficiency of farming equipment in use for harvesting, mowing, spraying and fertilizing for production and training.
11. Incorporates new technologies into all areas of our business.
12. Performs other related duties as assigned.

 Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Competencies

1. Problem Solving/Analysis.
2. Teamwork Orientation.
3. Project Management.
4. Communication Proficiency.
5. Performance Management.
6. Technical Capacity.

Supervisory Responsibility

This position manages all sod, soil and seed employees of the location and is responsible for leadership of the employees within its department.

Work Environment

This job operates in exposure to direct sunlight and weather 90% of the time. This employee will operate equipment daily including but not limited to tractors, harvesters, forklifts, spraying and spreading equipment.  While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud. 

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, lift, push, pull, stoop, or bend. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This position requires the ability to occasionally lift products and supplies weighing up to 50 pounds as needed and operate equipment.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position. Days and hours can change at the discretion of the Regional Manager; though typical hours of work are Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., evening and weekend hours will be necessary to accommodate operational needs. 

Travel

Travel is primarily local during the business day.

Required Education and Experience

1. Agriculture/Farm Operations experience
2. Pesticide Applicator License

Preferred Education and Experience

1. Secondary Education in Turf Management, Ag Business, or related experience.
2. Managerial/Team Leadership experience

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.