Combine Harvester Operator Arable Agriculture

Job description / Role

Combine Harvester Operator Arable Agriculture - Uganda

Millar Cameron is an international recruitment agency specializing in finding excellent professionals for placements in Sub-Saharan agriculture and forestry positions. We are currently representing a leading European agribusiness and farming company and are aiding them in their search for a Combine Harvester Operator to join them on a large arable agriculture operation in Uganda.

You would be working for a fantastic company on a truly operational role. This is an opportunity for a young professional to experience an African adventure and live and work in Uganda, whilst being part of and contributing to the operations of a very large agribusiness company.

The Combine Harvester Operator would be working on:
- Operating Claas Lexion harvesters for 1500 hectares of maize, sunflower and soya,
- Supervising and training the on-site personnel on use of these machines
- Organizing the logistics behind the harvest, such as chaser bins, grain dams and grain bunkers
- After Harvesting, you will be working on the planting of various crops as well

Requirements

- Experience with combine harvesters in the past, working on arable agriculture operations
- After Harvesting, Experience with John Deere with cultivation and planting equipment
- Some technical knowledge of the maintenance and basic repairs,
- Ability to work in a team
- And an enthusiastic and energetic approach for making an exciting adventure a reality.

Our clients are international, and enjoy plenty of funding; they would provide you with an expatriate package and a competitive salary.

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.