Jon McCabe
Sioux Falls,SD
Summary
Professional Experience
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Operations Manager - Soil Sampling
Deveron
Sioux Falls, SD
04.2024 - Current
- Hire, motivate, train, and lead full time and seasonal employees
- Assist in meeting operational budget goals
- Actively participate in all Pield activities
- Develop procedures and SOP's to enhance quality of soil samples collected in Pield
- Ensure employees are operating equipment (trucks, ATV's) in a safe manner
Site Lead
AgReliant Genetics
Sioux Falls, SD
03.2020 - 09.2022
- Hire, motivate, train, and lead full time and seasonal employees to meet job responsibilities
- Manage operational and capital budgets
- Develop, track and implement strategies to improve all operational efPiciencies
- Responsible for all preventative maintenance of equipment, buildings, and grounds to ensure the facility is operating in a safe and efPicient manner
Yield Trial Manager/Safety Coordinator
AgReliant Genetics
Kenyon, MN
09.2011 - 03.2020
- Oversaw all projects including safety, yield trials, nursery and isolations to ensure timely completion of seed prep, shipping of yield trials, planting, note taking, pollinations, detasseling, and harvest
- Ensured all safety protocols and quality assurance guidelines were met
- Hired, trained, motivated and lead part time staff during Pield operations
- Performed administrative and site management duties to ensure the facility and operations ran smoothly
- Organized the sale and closing of the Kenyon, MN research station
- Lead teams to ensure the facility was properly cleaned out and ready for sale
- Coordinated all trucking for equipment transfer and worked with local businesses to ensure the project ran smoothly
Yield Trial Research Associate/Safety Coordinator
AgReliant Genetics
Kenyon, MN
09.2011 - 03.2013
- Responsible for keeping location in compliance with company and OSHA safety standards
- Provided safety training to all employees on a monthly basis
- Manage, train and lead full time staff and part-time labor
- Trial building, mapped Pields, seed cleaning, seed treating, seed counting, seed shipments, measured and Plagged Pields, planting, harvesting, pollinating, equipment maintenance, building and grounds maintenance, crew leader
Custom Applicator and Safety Coordinator
Crop Production Services
Irvington, IA
03.2006 - 09.2011
- Acted as the site safety coordinator
- Lead monthly safety trainings and ensured the facility was always in compliance with company, state and federal regulations
- Performed custom application of fertilizer to farm Pields using variable rate application techniques and software
- Scouted crops for weed, insect and disease presence
- Assisted staff with warehouse duties including loading/unloading chemical and seed deliveries, bulk soybean seed treating and inventories
- Assisted staff and customers with chemical loads during spraying season
Research Assistant
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
05.1998 - 12.2005
- Company Overview: Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station
- Assisted with all aspects of a barley research project including Pield prep, planting, note taking, and harvest
- Assisted with equipment, building and grounds maintenance at the University farm
- Managed a 400acre remote testing facility for 2 seasons
- Duties included training and managing part time staff, equipment, building and grounds maintenance, Pield prep, planting, spraying, note taking and harvest
- Agriculture and Forestry Experiment Station
Education
B.S. - Natural Resources Management, Plant and Soil Science
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
02.2019
Skills
- Risk Management
- Safety Management
- Project Management
- Strong Communication Skills
- Multitasking
- Software: Excel
- Software: Word
- Software: Power Point
Timeline
Operations Manager - Soil Sampling
Deveron
04.2024 - Current
Site Lead
AgReliant Genetics
03.2020 - 09.2022
Yield Trial Manager/Safety Coordinator
AgReliant Genetics
09.2011 - 03.2020
Yield Trial Research Associate/Safety Coordinator
AgReliant Genetics
09.2011 - 03.2013
Custom Applicator and Safety Coordinator
Crop Production Services
03.2006 - 09.2011
Research Assistant
University of Alaska-Fairbanks
05.1998 - 12.2005
B.S. - Natural Resources Management, Plant and Soil Science
University of Alaska-Fairbanks