Farm Manager Estate
Resume:
johan rabie
Contact
Address
Paarl
Phone
**********@*******.***
Additional Skills
• Computer literate
(Word/Outlook/Excell)
• Excellent time management
skills
• Strong inter-personal skills
• Creative problem-solving skills
• Hands-on
organizer and Flexible
Professional Summary
More about me as a person – passionate about “giving back”. To people and the earth.
Enjoys being outside, a keen gardener – Clivia breeding and enjoys mountain biking, hiking and camping.
With me there are no grey areas. What you see is what you get. Friendly, passionate about organic farming and the uplifting of people. A natural leader that is hardworking and loyal. Can take instructions well and execute them 100%. Important for me is to have the same vision as his employer
I am not looking for a job, I am looking for a long-term opportunity. I matriculated at Paarl Gym and studied Agricultural Science – Wellington. My granddad had a farm – that is where my love of farming and gardening comes from.
I am married, his wife is a lecturer at Somerset College – Subject Design. During and after studies I started the long road as Farm Assistant. My goal as a person was to learn as much as I can from successful farmers in order to gain a skillset and knowledge that I can apply in future. Worked at Oaklands Estate where my passion for organic farming was tickled. At Backsberg I enjoyed my position as Assistant Manager. After 3 years I was approached by Iris Ministries to work at an orphanage in Mozambique as General Maintenance Manager. I had to prepare the land and start planting from scratch. Invited to USA where I met delegates re future of farming science and future developments. Back in RSA I coached locals regarding the stuff I learned in the States. I then moved back into my passion of farming and worked as a Farm Manager at Lebombo Cape where Lettuce and Bell Peppers for Woolworths are grown. An opportunity opened at Vesuvio Estate – 6 months contract – which I took to learn more about olive farming. I enjoyed this position.
I learned and grow as much as I could in different positions and was approached by our Denny Mushrooms as an Assistant Technical Manager in 2017. I gained excellent experience and is comfortable in the compost making process.
Why me?
A keen interest in organic farming and gardening
At Denny Mushrooms gained excellent experience in compost making. Understands agriculture and farming methods
Experience in maintenance of properties
Greenhouse experience
Honest and Reliable – strong value system
Enjoys empowering people
Strong sense of empathy
Passionate about bio diversity in farming
Giving back attitude – to people and the earth
Irrigation / mechanical programmes
Presentable and easy to talk to
Hands on
Work Experience
July 2017 - Feb 2021
Denny Mushrooms - Durbanville
ASS TECH MANAGER
- Record keeping: Desease, chemicals used, fertelisers, adjustments in growing, room
tempratures, fan speed and pressure readings. The right amount of bails are getting
dunked for each bactch of compost. Admin for standard operating procedures of all
the activities on the farm. Stock taking.
- Hygiene: Washed all rooms with chlorine, made sure the passages are clean, all lugs
are taken out and washed, make sure all the staff were dressed correctly
(PPE),
footbaths washed and refilled on a daily basis. Training of staff. Managing a team to
check disease accordingly.
- Growing room controls: Check suffiecient airflow in rooms, check compost tempratures, make sure rooms are clean and tidy, count desease, cover all desease
on the mushrooms with salt and check the fly count.
- Composting: Comprehensive general knowledge of the compost making process.
Checking the compost yard schedule. Taking readings of temperatures, checking
tunnel temperatures, moisture index, ammonia levels, fill heights, machinery
conditions, water quality and management of staff. October 2016 - March 2017
Vesuvio Estate - Paarl
ESTATE MANAGER
- Manage the olive farm in all aspects to produce maximum olive growth and oil
production. Manage all operation on farm and in the bottling plant.
- Regular communications and co-operation with the company owner. Manage human
resources – farm workers, bottling staff and casuals. Close co-operation and coordination with Financial Manager.
- Grove Management, cultivation, chemical pest control, fertilizer programme, pruning,
irrigation, development of new groves. Fencing, general hygiene, pest control (spray
dates, chemicals used, calibration) Orchard maintenance – cultivation details, irrigation
schedules etc.
- Maintenance of farm vehicles, tractors and equipment. Keeping all vehicles, tractors and
equipment in working condition at all times. Oversee repair and maintenance. General
farm maintenance and development. Buildings – maintenance and up-keep.
- Harvesting statistics, intake and weighing of olives during harvesting, on- time delivering
of olives at the factory, quantity and quality control of olives delivered to the factory.
Management of picking procedures and equipment. Facilitate harvesting contractors.
Co-ordinate and select seasonal harvesting contractors and casuals.
- Management of staff: Time schedules, drivers traveling records, staff attendance, leave,
warnings and disciplinary hearings. Proper record keeping March 2015 - September 2016
LEBOMBO CAPE - PAARL
FARM MANAGER
- Product Quality: Planting, fertilizing, harvesting, spray program, water and disease
analysis.
- Production Efficiency: Waste, time management. Record keeping of Global Gap, spray,
program, fertilizing program, harvest dates, production volumes etc. Daily reporting.
Planning of WW quality with WW Key Accounts. Check quality of the water by reading
the EC and pH.
- Repairs & Maintenance: Preventative maintenance. Cleaning of filters, tanks & UV
lights. Buildings & greenhouses. Spray equipment. Calibration equipment and
instruments.
- Communication & Training: Maintained relationships with consultants.
- Stock Control: Chemicals, equipment & tools.
- People Management (8 to 11 staff): Adhered HR policy and procedures. Maintained HR
productivity / allocation of tasks. Health & Safety (spray operators / protective clothing)
- Administration and Development: Interpretation of climate and irrigation data. Daily
checklist. Process flows (from planting to harvest / instruction manual) Procedures i.e.
breakdowns, weekends etc.
- Managing the pack store during some weekends.
January 2013 - Febuary 2015
LIFE COACH - SELF EMPLOYED - STELLENBOSCH
LIFE COACH
I lead a small group on a weekly basis as a life coach, regarding horticulture industry,
sustainable development and finances. During this time I did continual research on a
number of topics such as genetics, space, finance and sustainable development. Also
planned and organized annual conferences and did the marketing for these conferences as
well. During this time I also had the opportunity to help serve the community during an
outreach to India.
I also talked and trained the group of people about Kingdom principles and applying it to your life.
I also held 4 conferences during that time which I bought speakers from overseas with an attendance of about 350 people attending. September 2009 - November 2012
IRIS MINISTRIES - MOZAMBIUE
GENERAL MAINTENANCE MANAGER / FARM MANAGER
I decided to take some time to follow another passion of mine and joined Iris ministries with
Heidi Baker, we cared for 1200 children at the IRIS orphanage. I also attended the Missions
School, lead various outreach teams (50 people at a time) within Mozambique.
Building a reservoir and overseeing the water system.
- Maintaining and fixing building repairs.
- Planting of an orchard consisting of 2ha Citrus and 2ha Mango trees
- 10ha Maize, 1ha peanuts and 1ha peppers were also planted.
- Preparing the land and training the locals to prune the trees April 2007 - September 2009
BACKSBERG WINE ESTATE - SIMONDIUM
ASSISTANT MANAGER
Monitoring of pest and diseases on 80ha wine grapes, 8ha blueberries, 15ha citrus
trees, 6ha pomegranates and 3ha figs and responding with appropriate sprays.
- Recording and implementation of: irrigation, spraying and mechanical programmes.
- Productivity monitoring: labor and mechanical tasks.
- Data collection: Pruning, crop control, pre harvest and harvest.
- Water monitoring in relation to sugar percentages for grapes.
- Management of people and production teams.
- Management of appropriate weekly fertilizers for all of the fruit varieties.
- Maintain an up to date record of sprays and fertilizers for Global Gap.
- Maintenance of property.
- Production of compost and feed for plants to minimize spray usage. January 2006 - April 2007
OAKLANDS ESTATE
ASSISTANT MANAGER
- Overseeing the basic production and hydroponics of an organic vegetable farm.
- Building of plastic vegetable tunnels. Planting of seeds. Supervising plant germination in heat rooms and quarantine tunnels for sun exposure.
- Building of new soil beds and replanting of new seedlings. Building and maintaining
dripper piping, to water the seedlings.
- Ensuring optimum growth through adding nutrients to the water system.
- Management of spray control for pests and disease. Facilitating the harvest
process.
- Management of the natural water resources in case of drought.
- The organic farming of the estate closed down due to strong winds destroying all
the tunnels.
- I’ve also helped a bit during foal season with managing the camps to make sure
that everything is in order and I’ve also helped with the 1 yearlings to move to
different camps as well as feeding the horses in the morning as well as in the
afternoon.
Education
2003 - 2005
CAPE PENINSULA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
DIPLOMA IN AGRICULTURE
SUBJECTS:
Soil Science, Production Management, Crop Protection, Agricultural Information, Business
Economics, Viticulture, Basic Mechanical Engineering 1998 - 2002
PAARL GIMNASIUM - PAARL
SUBJECTS:
Afrikaans, English, Science, Geography, Maths, Woodwork Languages
AFRIKAANS — C1
ENGLISH — B2
References
DENNY MUSHROOMS - Jerome Leibrandt – 083-***-****
VESUVIO ESTATE - Hanli Rees - 082-***-****
LEBOMBO - Cleo Jakobs - 082-***-****
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