Wonderful Citrus is America’s largest integrated grower, shipper and packer of fresh citrus, including clementine/mandarin, navel and Valencia oranges; lemons; limes; grapefruits; and other citrus varieties. Wonderful Citrus owns, cultivates and harvests more than 58,000 acres of fresh citrus and ships around the world each year to ensure a year-round supply. Our citrus can be found in all channels of distribution, with our consumer brands most visible in the produce department of grocery stores across America under the flagship consumer brands of Wonderful Halos mandarins and Wonderful Sweet Scarletts Texas Red grapefruit.

Overview:

Manages all aspects of harvest including but limited to:

• • Fruit evaluation
  • Harvest crew placement and supervision
  • Quality control
  • Ensure safe work procedures

Supports field technical evaluation including but not limited to:

• • Crop estimates
  • Fruit size measurement
  • Crop Quality Evaluation

Here’s what you’ll do:

• Supervises and delegates harvest production functions
• Ensures production goals and quality control of citrus are met
• Oversees recruitment procedures of harvest crews
• Enforces company safety rules and policies
• Maintains POSITIVE grower relations
• Ensures that fruit estimations and projections are correct and useful
• Measuring fruit size data to understand growth trajectory of crop
• Correctly completing required paper work, and using required I-Phone field applications.
• Ensure that Fruit Labor Contractors are in their assigned fields
• Responsibilities also include insuring strict quality control standards related to fruit harvesting, training employees; planning, assigning and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining FLC’s under your supervision. 

Here’s what you’ll bring to the table:  

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Management Responsibilities: Directly manages Field Labor Contractors in Harvesting. Carries out responsibilities in accordance with the organization’s policies and applicable laws.
• Basic computer fluency e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations as they may relate to such things as; Maturity Testing, Citrus Rustmite, Armored Scale, Citrus Diseases Etc.
• Ability communicate by email as needed.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of ranch managers and growers
• Ability to solve problems and deal with a variety of situations where only limited supervision exists
• Ability to spend the vast majority of your time traveling to, and in the fields supervising Farm Labor Contractors as well as continually observing any changes taking place related to field conditions and fruit quality.

Wonderful's dedication to you:

• Competitive benefits package including Medical, Vision, Dental, 401k
• Continued training and generous Education Reimbursement Program
• Paid sick, vacation and holiday time
• Wonderful Giving (www.wonderfulgiving.com) -- allowing you to donate company money to a cause of your choice

Why Choose Wonderful?

Wonderful Citrus is part of The Wonderful Company, a privately held $6 billion global company dedicated to harvesting health and happiness around the world. Its iconic brands include FIJI Water, POM Wonderful, Wonderful Pistachios, Wonderful Halos, Wonderful Seedless Lemons, Teleflora, and JUSTIN and Lewis Cellars wines. The Wonderful Company’s connection to consumers has health at its heart and giving back in its DNA. 

To learn more about The Wonderful Company, its products, and its core values, please visit wonderful.com, or follow The Wonderful Company on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram. To learn more about the company’s corporate social responsibility impact, visit csr.wonderful.com. 

Wonderful Citrus and The Wonderful Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and with opportunities for advancement. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected categories.

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