Irrigation Technician

Type of position: Full-time, year round

Primary Purpose and Function: Demonstrate professional behavior with a team-based mentality to ensure that all products produced and harvested by Walters Gardens are produced to the highest quality standard in an efficient, safe, and economical way.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Daily Irrigation
•  Assist Irrigation supervisor with planning and developing daily and weekly irrigation schedules to ensure all plants are receiving the proper moisture
• Carry out daily irrigation responsibilities including running lines, setting guns, and running linear and pivot irrigation systems
• Participate in irrigation team evening and weekend rotational responsibilities
• Train and supervise staff to implement and carry out irrigation plan
• Assist Irrigation Supervisor by tracking and recording rainfall events
• Assist Irrigation Supervisor by tracking and recording irrigation events
• Work with irrigation maintenance crew to safely and efficiently fix all irrigations system issues
• Assist in the process of irrigation equipment maintenance and inventory
• Communication
• Keep an open line of communication with Irrigation Supervisor about all daily and weekly needs and priorities
• Keep an open line of communication with Field Operation Manager about daily irrigation schedule and personnel needs
• Keep an open line of communication with Production Coordinator to make sure crops and being irrigated when planting is complete
• Keep an open line of communication with Plant Health staff in regards to herbicide sprays and irrigation
• Communicate needs for new irrigation supplies (pipe, guns, sprinklers, etc) to Operation manager and Irrigation specialist.
• Shipping Responsibilities
• Assembling orders
• Stacking boxes
• Pulling UPS ground orders
• Ability to use scanner
• Assist with racking and staging of product
• Load and unload trucks
• Operator
• Ability to operate specialized equipment
• Operation of other equipment throughout the year including but not limited to:
• Batwing mowing
• Cultivating
• Roto Tilling 
• Field Prep
• Others as assigned
• Digging Crew
• Participate in the fall and spring storage digging
• Trailer personnel
• Truck driving
• Trailer loading
• Sand covering
• Picking up strays
• Putting plant product in cribs and leveling – ensuring proper labels go on cribs
• Team Responsibilities
• Communicate any problems or concerns to appropriate manager immediately
• Carry a positive attitude and help supervise and train other staff in certain job responsibilities
• Follow and uphold company policies
• Utilize your experience within the context of Walters Gardens
• Become proficient with knowledge of plants, process, and equipment.
• Complete other duties as assigned by manager

Knowledge and Skills

• 3-5 years related work and/or relevant college education
• Bilingual in English and Spanish a plus
• Computer skills in Microsoft office a plus
• Elevated organizational and math skills a plus
• Ability to lift heavy objects
• Some weekends and long days required based on seasonality of work 
• Ability to obtain WG Hilo operator license
• Ability to operate equipment