Junior Farm Manager - Paarl

Our client outside Paarl is in need of a junior Farm manager who will need to be supervising general workers and any other employees and contractors

Supervising or performing routine tasks such as:

• Daily inspections of electric fences to ensure they are functioning and clear of debris
• Daily end of day inspections on park operating days to ensure all fires are extinguished and there are no leaking water pipes, taps, or toilets
• Regular inspections of animal farmyard, workroom, buildings, shop, and grounds to ensure cleanliness, neatness and order in all areas
• Fetching animal feed and bedding, shop stocks, and materials
• Regular inspections of park amenities, ablutions, equipment, buildings, and roads to check for maintenance requirements
• Repairs and maintenance tasks
• Transporting staff when necessary
• Park cleaning – grounds, tables, and braais
• Pool cleaning and chemical dosing
• Irrigation and care of lawns and trees
• Rubbish removal and dumping
• Septic tank emptying
• Regular testing and servicing of all vehicles and machinery, including pumps, generators, brush cutters, lawn mowers, chainsaw, electrical equipment, cameras, gate motor etc.
• Arranging or undertaking regular servicing and maintenance of park equipment, including vehicles, lawn mowers, pumps, play park etc.
• Monitoring security equipment and fencing
• Managing animal care, such as hoof trimming, sheep shearing, deworming, lice control
• Managing timely ordering and procurement of supplies – feed, pool chemicals, fuel, shop stocks, oat hay etc.
• Ensuring the park is compliant with all safety measures as prescribed by South African law

Administrative tasks:

• Cash reconciliations
• Banking
• Setting up Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and instructions for all electrics, water pipes, security fences, cameras, machinery, and equipment, using diagrams where appropriate
• Maintaining staff timesheets, days off, annual leave, issue of uniforms and workwear
• Receiving deliveries and stocking fridges and tuck shop
• Research for sourcing products at best prices
• Creating spreadsheets for costing of materials and time allocations for projects
• Research for best way to carry out projects
• Setting up and implementing management systems to streamline tasks in order to minimise time and fuel wastage

Guest services

• Recruiting, training, scheduling, and managing seasonal staff, including security, cleaners, pool marshals, ticket marshals, shop assistants, parking attendants, and lifeguards

• Managing operations to ensure staff are scheduled, correctly placed, and sufficiently trained and equipped to ensure the following:
• swift, smooth customer intake and maximum road safety
• tuck shop is prepared and ready
• ablutions are properly equipped and monitored for cleanliness, blocked or leaking toilets
• parking is well-managed
• trampolines & pool safety is monitored at all times
• end of day clean-up, cash-up, and preparations for the following day i.e. floats, charged radios, phones and card machines, tube bands counted and bundled
• Admitting customers - taking payments, ensuring that customers comply with conditions of entry and park rules
• Managing hire equipment

Please email your CV through to annemie@vinerecruitment.co.za with a photo, salary expectation, location and availability