Farm Innovations Technician
Kutztown, PA
Full Time
Entry Level
The Farm Innovations Technician position facilitates and assists with implementing farming activities to enable any and all research, education, communication, development, and production projects to function as designed. The Farm Technician will participate in project design through completion, carrying out all daily activities while maintaining activity logs. This position reports to the Farm Manager.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Travel: Some travel will be required for farm visits, conferences, grower meetings, workshops, product sales, and other events.
About Rodale Institute: Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach. For seventy years, the Institute has been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Take part in the execution of day-to-day tasks
- Lead and/or supervise volunteers when requested
- Maintain a clean and organized work area and office space
- Operate between research plots, production fields, and educational fields
- Maintain field operation logs for records and organic certification
- Tractor driving, using tractor-mounted implements, using irrigation, transplanting, seeding, cultivating, hand weeding, spraying, harvesting, collecting data, and any other field tasks requested
- Assist in planning and execution of pollinator habitats and riparian zones
- Maintain an aesthetically pleasing appearance across entire frontend of campus
- Prepare sites on main campus for weddings, meetings, tours, events, etc.
- Landscaping activities include transplanting, hand weeding, watering, seeding, dead-heading, harvesting, spraying, pruning, trellising, mowing, trimming fence lines, and any other landscaping tasks requested
- Assist in planning of beneficial insect habitats and beneficial for gardens
- Provide support for livestock activities such as feeding, watering, moving fences, moving animals, collecting data, and any other livestock tasks requested
- Maintain animal chore logs
- Some weekend animal chores will be required
- Assist specialist in execution of production plans for all controlled environment greenhouse structures
- Assist with preparing farm products for sale and delivery
- Assist facilities team with event setup and cleanup
- Participate in webinars, interviews, tours, and other educational activities as requested
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- At least 2 years of experience in manual labor, agriculture, or landscaping
- Ability to maintain and organize activity logs
- Positive, motivated, and professional attitude
- Flexible schedule as farm work can be unpredictable
- Works well in both a teamwork-oriented environment and alone
- Able to lift and carry +50lbs
- Able and willing to work in any weather
Travel: Some travel will be required for farm visits, conferences, grower meetings, workshops, product sales, and other events.
About Rodale Institute: Rodale Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to pioneering organic farming through research and outreach. For seventy years, the Institute has been researching the best practices of organic agriculture and sharing findings with farmers and scientists throughout the world, advocating for policies that support farmers, and educating consumers about how going organic is the healthiest option for people and the planet.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, sexual identity or handicap.
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