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Farm Operations Lead
2026-06-10T10:27:21+00:00
Summit Recruitment and Search Africa
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FULL_TIME
Mityana, Uganda
Mityana
00256
Uganda
Consulting
Management, Business Operations, Agribusiness, Agricultural Services & Products, Farming & Outdoors
UGX
MONTH
2026-07-31T17:00:00+00:00
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The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the plan gets executed in the field to the standard required by a revenue-generating commercial export farm. Will work closely with the CEO to contribute ground-level insight into weekly and seasonal planning, then owns the execution of that plan completely.

Key  Responsibilities

  • Implement weekly field plans, deploying supervisors and labour with correct inputs.
  • Ensure daily farm activities are completed, scheduled, and recorded in the system.
  • Hold supervisors accountable for attendance, task completion, and quality.
  • Resolve field-level operational issues (equipment, labour, inputs) promptly.
  • Submit daily and weekly operational reports.
  • Support CEO with planning inputs (crop readiness, labour, constraints, equipment).
  • Prioritize revenue-linked activities and align field schedules to harvest timelines.
  • Monitor budgets, control costs, manage procurement, and flag overruns early.
  • Coordinate with agronomist, ensure compliance with crop programs, and escalate key decisions.
  • Oversee packhouse operations, compliance (GlobalGAP/MAAIF), post-harvest handling, and export quality/logistics.

Key Qualifications

  • Relevant Bachelor’s Degree.
  • Demonstrated experience managing field supervisors and casual labour teams.
  • Hands-on familiarity with GlobalGAP, MAAIF, or equivalent export certification requirements.
  • Packhouse operations experience — grading, post-harvest handling, traceability documentation.
  • Proven ability to read and work within a farm budget — cost-per-acre, input costs, labour reconciliation.
  • Strong working knowledge of avocado or macadamia agronomy — sufficient to supervise and hold an agronomist accountable.
  • Commercially aware — understands that field decisions carry direct revenue consequences.
  • Competent with digital reporting tools; comfortable operating within a structured farm management System.
  • Implement weekly field plans, deploying supervisors and labour with correct inputs.
  • Ensure daily farm activities are completed, scheduled, and recorded in the system.
  • Hold supervisors accountable for attendance, task completion, and quality.
  • Resolve field-level operational issues (equipment, labour, inputs) promptly.
  • Submit daily and weekly operational reports.
  • Support CEO with planning inputs (crop readiness, labour, constraints, equipment).
  • Prioritize revenue-linked activities and align field schedules to harvest timelines.
  • Monitor budgets, control costs, manage procurement, and flag overruns early.
  • Coordinate with agronomist, ensure compliance with crop programs, and escalate key decisions.
  • Oversee packhouse operations, compliance (GlobalGAP/MAAIF), post-harvest handling, and export quality/logistics.
  • Demonstrated experience managing field supervisors and casual labour teams.
  • Hands-on familiarity with GlobalGAP, MAAIF, or equivalent export certification requirements.
  • Packhouse operations experience — grading, post-harvest handling, traceability documentation.
  • Proven ability to read and work within a farm budget — cost-per-acre, input costs, labour reconciliation.
  • Strong working knowledge of avocado or macadamia agronomy — sufficient to supervise and hold an agronomist accountable.
  • Commercially aware — understands that field decisions carry direct revenue consequences.
  • Competent with digital reporting tools; comfortable operating within a structured farm management System.
  • Relevant Bachelor’s Degree.
bachelor degree
24
JOB-6a293c0940a54

Vacancy title:
Farm Operations Lead

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Consulting, Category: Management, Business Operations, Agribusiness, Agricultural Services & Products, Farming & Outdoors]

Jobs at:
Summit Recruitment and Search Africa

Deadline of this Job:
Friday, July 31 2026

Duty Station:
Mityana, Uganda | Mityana

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, June 10 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the plan gets executed in the field to the standard required by a revenue-generating commercial export farm. Will work closely with the CEO to contribute ground-level insight into weekly and seasonal planning, then owns the execution of that plan completely.

Key  Responsibilities

  • Implement weekly field plans, deploying supervisors and labour with correct inputs.
  • Ensure daily farm activities are completed, scheduled, and recorded in the system.
  • Hold supervisors accountable for attendance, task completion, and quality.
  • Resolve field-level operational issues (equipment, labour, inputs) promptly.
  • Submit daily and weekly operational reports.
  • Support CEO with planning inputs (crop readiness, labour, constraints, equipment).
  • Prioritize revenue-linked activities and align field schedules to harvest timelines.
  • Monitor budgets, control costs, manage procurement, and flag overruns early.
  • Coordinate with agronomist, ensure compliance with crop programs, and escalate key decisions.
  • Oversee packhouse operations, compliance (GlobalGAP/MAAIF), post-harvest handling, and export quality/logistics.

Key Qualifications

  • Relevant Bachelor’s Degree.
  • Demonstrated experience managing field supervisors and casual labour teams.
  • Hands-on familiarity with GlobalGAP, MAAIF, or equivalent export certification requirements.
  • Packhouse operations experience — grading, post-harvest handling, traceability documentation.
  • Proven ability to read and work within a farm budget — cost-per-acre, input costs, labour reconciliation.
  • Strong working knowledge of avocado or macadamia agronomy — sufficient to supervise and hold an agronomist accountable.
  • Commercially aware — understands that field decisions carry direct revenue consequences.
  • Competent with digital reporting tools; comfortable operating within a structured farm management System.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Uganda
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Friday, July 31 2026
Duty Station: Mityana, Uganda | Mityana
Posted: 10-06-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 10-06-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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