Crop Production Specialist Arable Agriculture

Job description / Role

Crop Production Specialist Arable Agriculture - Saudi Arabia

Millar Cameron is an international recruitment agency focussing on finding specialist professionals for placements in emerging markets. We are representing one of our highly respected clients in Saudi Arabia and are aiding them in their search for a Crop Production Specialist to join them in their Arable Agriculture operations.

This is an opportunity to join one of the worlds most sophisticated companies in their highly specialist and advanced operations. You would be working in a vital position, instrumental to the companys success. The Crop Production Specialist would require a knowledge of (precision) Agronomy and be passionate about wanting to apply that knowledge to everyday situations.


The new Crop Production Specialist would be responsible for:
- Collect, analyse and present data about the farms production of arable crops, and presenting these findings to improve future yields and protect the current yield,
- Creating an internal advisory service for all matters relating to crop production,
- Work closely with farm manager to devise an optimal crop spraying and fertigation schedule,
Using GIS and GPS information to optimize crop production and farm lay-outs

Requirements

- Education up to a degree-level in agronomy or a related field of study
- At least 5 years of work experience
- Experience working with arable agriculture
- The ability to work and communicate effectively in a multinational environment.

Many of our clients, including this one, can offer fantastic expatriate packages and career opportunities.

Alternatively, please forward this advertisement to anyone else you think that might be interested.

About the Company

Millar Cameron has over 15 years resource solutions experience, serving both the international and domestic recruitment market.

Our clients know they can rely on us to put forward only the most suitable candidates, we believe our requirement to placement ratio is second to none. We are renowned for our speed of response, in most instances being able to provide a ‘same day’ service from receipt of the brief to submission of relevant CV’s.

Our belief is that ‘prevention is better than intervention’ and strive hard to ensure we get the right person for the job. Our commitment doesn’t stop when a placement is agreed; we follow through with both parties to ensure everyone is satisfied. Such is our success rate that in an average year less than 3% of our candidates have to be replaced—a figure that is all the more significant when one considers the extremely challenging environments that many of our placements are in.