WHO WE ARE

AgBest, LLC is a farmer-owned cooperative with Agronomy and Energy branches located throughout East Central Indiana since 1930. AgBest offers a broad range of agricultural inputs and custom services to support the varied farming operations in our market. We provide major product lines including petroleum and LP gas, feed, fertilizer, and crop protection. In addition, we offer related services, including custom application, grain marketing, and consultation. 

AgBest serves patrons in Delaware, Blackford, Jay, Wells, Eastern Grant, and Western Randolph Counties, and we distinguish ourselves from our competitors by providing efficient service, excellent products, and superior customer service. Additionally, our AgBest Express division includes self-service gas stations and convenience stores offering top-tier CountryMark gasoline refined from American crude oil.

AgBest strives to develop meaningful relationships with our customers and employees.  AgBest employees are essential in maintaining our values and continuing our growth.  At AgBest, we look for individuals who are committed to excellence, integrity, and safety.

The Custom Applicator will support the agronomy program by accurately mixing, hauling, spreading, and applying liquid and dry fertilizer and crop protection products, using knowledge, maps, recommendations, and label directions. Accurate and timely custom application for customers is essential, along with proper equipment maintenance. Class B CDL is required.

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Accurately mix and apply agricultural chemicals based on recommendations and label directions.
• Must be able to understand label specifications and operational procedures/standards for custom application.
• Record and maintain application data and logbooks, as well as inspection records, on time as required.
• Operate agricultural equipment in addition to Commercial Application equipment.  Repair, rebuild, and maintain equipment as needed.
• Maintain a clean and safe work environment by complying with company and environmental regulations.
• Load, unload, and deliver bulk and packaged products.
• Assist in additional duties, including inventory control, driving tender trucks, and warehouse operation assignments.
• Participate in training and pass certification processes as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must complete each essential duty to a level deemed satisfactory by the Branch Manager. Successful candidates will be self-motivated team players with a positive attitude, outstanding work ethic, and dedication to delivering results during seasons of highest demand. The candidate will be required to work Monday through Friday and on some weekends as deemed necessary.

• Valid driver’s license required.
• Class B CDL with Hazmat endorsement and one-year minimum experience preferred.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, proportions, percentages, area, and volume.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to utilize and operate variable rate technology and GPS guidance systems.

Physical Demands and Work Environment Anchor

The physical demands described here are representative of those required of an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

Physical Demands

• Ability to write and speak effectively to individuals and groups.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to walk, stand, stoop, crouch, crawl, kneel, bend, reach overhead with hands and arms, finger keys (like keyboarding, controls on a scanner, fax, etc.), climb, balance, or sit for extended periods of time.
• Ability to lift, carry, and push up to 50lbs and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 lbs.
• Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear, and taste or smell.
• May be required to work at varying heights.
• Ability to hear within normal range.
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

• Ability and willingness to work extended hours and weekends as business conditions warrant (primarily Spring and Fall).
• Ability to work both indoors and outdoors.
• Employee occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold and extreme heat.
• Working conditions could include dust, fumes, moderate noise, and uneven surfaces.
• Ability to travel independently to multiple locations daily.
• Must be able to work in a drug-free environment.

Note

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

To perform this job successfully, the employee(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or a significant risk to their own or others' health or safety.  The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an at-will relationship.