Operations Specialist - Seasonal

Five Star Cooperative; Iowa; Hybrid; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Five Star Cooperative seeks an Operations Specialist to support grain and agronomy facilities. You will receive grain, maintain conditions, measure inventory, and operate equipment including forklifts and loaders. You will assist with fertilizer and chemical loading and ensure accurate records and inventory control.

The role emphasizes customer service, teamwork, and upholding cooperative policies while supporting multiple locations as needed.

Qualifications

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Computer skills required - proficient in Word and Excel.
• Good customer service skills and approach necessary.

Responsibilities

• Maintain grain quality and manage weighing, grading, and bin designation.
• Assist in operating grain and agronomy facilities; load/unload trucks and fertilizer/chemicals.
• Operate forklifts/loaders and maintain seed/bulk treatment equipment.
• Manage inventory and write tickets to ensure accurate stock control.
• Assist with mix scheduling and communicate with other departments as needed.
• Complete driving and delivery records and uphold cooperative policies.

Skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Interpersonal skills

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Description

Job Objective

Under the direction of the location supervisor and/or operations manager, the operations specialist is responsible for tasks in operating our grain and/or agronomy facilities. Duties include, but are not limited to, assisting in all aspects of the elevator operations. This position will be responsible for receiving grain, maintaining grain conditions, and measuring grain inventory. Incumbents will also be responsible for operating agronomy facilities, loading and unloading bulk and packaged fertilizer and chemical products, and measuring agronomy inventory. Incumbent will operate equipment such as forklifts and loaders, and maintain seed and bulk treatment equipment.

The incumbent will be expected to assist other locations and departments as assigned by management. Will communicate availability regularly and assist with projects as needed.

Incumbent maintains efficiency in a manner that will optimize the cooperative's market share and savings, improve the cooperative's efficiency, help achieve the cooperative's mission and goals, and result in outstanding customer service.

This position will maintain a positive attitude that promotes teamwork within the location, as well as within the cooperative and upholds a favorable image of Five Star Cooperative at all times.

Essential Tasks

• Maintain grain quality
• Works with grain weighing, grading, probing, and communicating bin designation
• Performs general housekeeping to maintain dust levels
• Performs maintenance and repairs to equipment
• Measure and tracks inventory of grain and agronomy products
• Performs basic grain handling; loading and unloading trucks
• Ability to dump grain
• Assists with loading and unloading fertilizer and chemicals
• Understand basic agronomy chemistry of all products
• Works in fertilizer plant mixing, loading trucks, reading work orders and maps, etc.
• Operates and maintains agronomy load-out facilities
• Operates equipment such as loader and forklift
• Assists with the assigned mix schedule, prepares mix to specifications in a timely manner, accounts for each mix or other service by writing job, sales, or transfer tickets to ensure accurate inventory control
• Maintains seed and bulk treatment equipment
• Completes and maintains driving and delivery records
• Assists with operations, helps with distribution of seed, fertilizer, and CPP products to growers
• Receives dry and liquid fertilizer
• Works directly with customers, developing excellent customer relations
• Enforce and abide by all cooperative policies
• Enforce and uphold the cooperative's credit policy
• Good communication with all employees and customers
• Check with other departments to see if help is needed before going home
• Perform other duties as assigned by management - employee's duties may change according to the changing needs of the company

Requirements

Qualifications

Education:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Fluent reading, writing, and speaking the English language

Experience:

• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills necessary
• Computer skills required - Proficient in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Good customer service skills and approach necessary

Preferred Experience:

• Agriculture background

License, Certificate or Registration:

• Valid Driver License
• Certificate to Grade Grain
• Forklift Certification - or ability to obtain all of the above

Basic Skills: Speaking, Writing, Reading Comprehension, Listening, Monitoring, Judgment and Decision Making, Time Management