Job Profile:      Agronomy Manager


Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of agricultural, forestry, aquacultural, and related workers.

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Select Tasks
Record the numbers and types of fish or shellfish reared, harvested, released, sold, and shipped. Monitor workers to ensure that safety regulations are followed, warning or disciplining those who violate safety regulations. Observe animals for signs of illness, injury, or unusual behavior, notifying veterinarians or managers as warranted.
Observe fish and beds or ponds to detect diseases, monitor fish growth, determine quality of fish, or determine completeness of harvesting. Train workers in tree felling or bucking, operation of tractors or loading machines, yarding or loading techniques, or safety regulations. Treat animal illnesses or injuries, following experience or instructions of veterinarians.
Train workers in spawning, rearing, cultivating, and harvesting methods, and in the use of equipment. Train workers in techniques such as planting, harvesting, weeding, or insect identification and in the use of safety measures. Confer with managers to evaluate weather or soil conditions, to develop plans or procedures, or to discuss issues such as changes in fertilizers, herbicides, or cultivating techniques.
Communicate with forestry personnel regarding forest harvesting or forest management plans, procedures, or schedules. Inspect crops, fields, or plant stock to determine conditions and need for cultivating, spraying, weeding, or harvesting. Coordinate dismantling, moving, and setting up equipment at new work sites.
Coordinate the selection and movement of logs from storage areas, according to transportation schedules or production requirements. Schedule work crews, equipment, or transportation for several different work locations. Drive or operate farm machinery, such as trucks, tractors, or self-propelled harvesters, to transport workers or supplies or to cultivate or harvest fields.
Perform both supervisory and management functions, such as accounting, marketing, and personnel work. Transport or arrange for transport of animals, equipment, food, animal feed, and other supplies to and from work sites. Inspect buildings, fences, fields or ranges, supplies, and equipment to determine work to be performed.
Read inventory records, customer orders, or shipping schedules to determine required activities. Inspect facilities to determine maintenance needs. Confer with managers to determine production requirements, conditions of equipment and supplies, and work schedules.
Prepare and maintain time or payroll reports, as well as details of personnel actions, such as performance evaluations, hires, promotions, or disciplinary actions. Requisition or purchase supplies, such as insecticides, machine parts or lubricants, or tools. Monitor or oversee construction projects, such as horticultural buildings or irrigation systems.
Issue equipment, such as farm implements, machinery, ladders, or containers to workers, and collect equipment when work is complete. Calculate or monitor budgets for maintenance or development of collections, grounds, or infrastructure. Direct or assist with the adjustment or repair of equipment or machinery.
Monitor operations to identify and solve problems, improve work methods, and ensure compliance with safety, company, and government regulations. Plan work schedules according to personnel and equipment availability.





Select Abilities
The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly.
The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.
The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. The ability to know your location in relation to the environment or to know where other objects are in relation to you. The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged.
The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.
The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects. The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects. The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.
The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. The ability to time your movements or the movement of a piece of equipment in anticipation of changes in the speed and/or direction of a moving object or scene.
The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. The ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. The ability to quickly move the arms and legs.
The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue.
The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without 'giving out' or fatiguing. The ability to exert yourself physically over long periods of time without getting winded or out of breath. The ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with your body, arms, and/or legs.
The ability to quickly and repeatedly bend, stretch, twist, or reach out with your body, arms, and/or legs. The ability to coordinate the movement of your arms, legs, and torso together when the whole body is in motion. The ability to keep or regain your body balance or stay upright when in an unstable position.
The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). The ability to see details at a distance. The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.
The ability to see under low light conditions. The ability to see objects or movement of objects to one's side when the eyes are looking ahead. The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.
The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting. The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness. The ability to focus on a single source of sound in the presence of other distracting sounds.
The ability to tell the direction from which a sound originated. The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.




Tools Used
Adjustable widemouth pliers Aeration pumps Air compressors
Animal injection syringes Animal trailers Animal vaccination syringes
Artificial insemination syringes Automated feed batch mixers Automatic fish feeders
Automatic watering devices Axes Backhoes
Balling guns Blast chillers Blood drawing syringes
Cable winches Castration equipment Chain flail delimbers
Chain saws Chemical injection systems Claw hammers
Cleaning mops Clipping equipment Cordless drills
Crop harvesters Debarking tools Debeakers
Dehorners Delimbing gates Desktop computers
Digging spades Dissolved oxygen indicators Drop spreaders
Dump trucks Dust and particulate respirators Ear tagging equipment
Egg candlers Egg grading machines Egg washing machines
Electronic animal scales Feed conveyors Feed wagons
Feller bunchers Field watering systems Filtering equipment
Fish capture nets Fish gates Fish holding tanks
Fish screens Fish seines Fish tagging equipment
Fish traps Fish weighing scales Flail mowers
Flow meters Fog systems Forage harvesters
Forklifts Four wheel drive 4WD vehicles Front end loaders
Fumigators Fyke nets Gas-powered generators
Geodetic ground global positioning system GPS receivers Gill nets Glass beakers
Grain dryers Grain trucks Grapple processors
Grapple yarders Greenhouse climate control systems Hand saws
Handheld digital thermometers Handheld spray guns Hard hats
Hatching trays Hay rakes Hoes
Hoisting racks Hoof trimmers Hoop nets
Horse bridles Horse saddles Irrigation pipettes
Knuckleboom loaders Laboratory test tubes Light pickup trucks
Log skidders Logging arches Logging tractors
Long handle shovels Manure spreaders Measuring tapes
Milk separators Milking equipment Mobile logging cranes
Mud sleds Multipurpose tractors Nail trimmers
Nebulizers Ozone water purification systems Personal computers
pH indicators Phillips head screwdrivers Pitchforks
Plows Portable data collectors Post hole diggers
Poultry incubators Power drills Power saws
Pruning shears Pullthrough delimbers Rakes
Riding mowers Rototillers Round balers
Rowboats Sawbucks Scuba diving equipment
Seed drills Shearing equipment Shovels
Small power boats Snowplows Socket wrench sets
Soil tillers Sonar equipment Spades
Square balers Squeegees Straight screwdrivers
Stroke delimbers Suction syringes Tail dockers
Tank cleaning brushes Timber tongs Total dissolved solids TDS meters
Tracked bulldozers Tracked excavators Tree pruning equipment
Turbidimeters Two way radios Ultraviolet water purification systems
Veterinary intravenous IV sets Video camera systems Video scanning fish counters
Water pumps Water testers Water transfer systems
Weed sprayers

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