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About Careers in Agricultural Manufacturing

There are a variety of exciting careers to pursue in agriculture manufacturing – allowing people who love agriculture and its way of life to combine their career passions with a passion for agriculture. Often, these job opportunities are in rural locations. Agricultural manufacturing jobs involve the creation of new products either from raw materials or by assembling different components through physical, chemical or mechanical means. Some agricultural manufacturing is highly automated, but there are still many positions available in different fields. Those who begin a career in agricultural manufacturing can also experience growth. Some individuals begin on a production floor, move to quality assurance or control and earn promotions to management or logistics. Engineers and project managers also excel in this field. The type of jobs available depend on the size of the company and the goods being produced, a varied skill set or list of responsibilities depends on the individual position.

If you are looking for a better understanding of the types of innovative and dynamic companies that are part of the agriculture manufacturing industry to determine an exciting career path for your future, check out the company profiles below.

Profiles: Careers in Ag

 

Ashley Dutchak

Ashley Dutchak
Welder – Cancade CBI Ltd.
Women in trades – Ag manufacturing embraces diversity in the workplace

Chris Morson

Chris Morson
Regional Sales Manager – Raven Industries
From Psychology to Agriculture

Gene Fraser

Gene Fraser
Sales and Marketing Specialist
Supporting people and having FUN every day

Tara Krajewski

Tara Krajewski
Brand Manager – Salford Group
Small town, big opportunities

Jordan Graber

Jordan Graber
Sales Representative – Bauman Manufacturing
Pandemic pivot leads to a new career in ag manufacturing

   

 

Current Opportunities in Ag Manufacturing

Relationship Manager

Location: Lethbridge, AB


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/25/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Passion for agriculture required:
Manage relationships with local producers and be responsible for a developing loan portfolio. You’ll work with more experienced lenders to tailor financing packages to meet your customers’ needs, including both lending and non-lending products, and help them build success. 

What you’ll do:

  • Work with customers to build financing packages that meet their business needs
  • Build relationships with FCC customers and internal partners
  • Look for opportunities to build your loan portfolio
  • Travel to visit customers on their farm or in the office
  • Analyze customer financial information
  • Create, process and approve new credit facilities 

What we’re looking for:

  • Confident communicator with strong analytical skills
  • Ability to connect and build business relationships
  • Sales and negotiation skills combined with sound judgment
  • Self-starter who embraces change
  • Organizational pro who can manage multiple priorities 

What you’ll need:

  • Degree in agriculture, business or commerce and at least one year of related ag finance or sales experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience); a professional agrologist designation is an asset
  • Drive to help others achieve their goals
  • A love for agriculture

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Industry Relations Manager (Bilingual)

Location: Montreal, QC


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/12/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English, French 

Relationship-building expertise rewarded:
Develop strategic partnerships that will enhance FCC’s ability to serve Canada’s producers, agribusiness operators and agri-food entrepreneurs.

This position is designated bilingual (English and French), and the successful candidate must be able to communicate in both of Canada’s official languages. 

What you’ll do:

  • Build and manage key relationships with influencers in the agriculture industry
  • Contribute sector-specific and industry information
  • Speak on behalf of FCC at industry gatherings across the country and respond to media inquiries
  • Coach and mentor colleagues on building relationships within the industry 

What we're looking for:

  • Strong communicator comfortable interacting with audiences at all levels of partner organizations
  • Experienced networker adept at connecting people within the agriculture industry for the mutual benefit of moving the industry forward
  • Strategic thinker who can translate observations into insights and forward-looking recommendations 

What you'll need:

  • A bachelor’s degree in agricultural finance, business, or commerce
  • At least five years of experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).

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Industry Relations Manager

Location: Regina, SK


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/12/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Relationship-building expertise rewarded:
Develop strategic partnerships that will enhance FCC’s ability to serve Canada’s producers, agribusiness operators and agri-food entrepreneurs. 

What you’ll do:

  • Build and manage key relationships with influencers in the agriculture industry
  • Contribute sector-specific and industry information
  • Speak on behalf of FCC at industry gatherings across the country and respond to media inquiries
  • Coach and mentor colleagues on building relationships within the industry 

What we're looking for:

  • Strong communicator comfortable interacting with audiences at all levels of partner organizations
  • Experienced networker adept at connecting people within the agriculture industry for the mutual benefit of moving the industry forward
  • Strategic thinker who can translate observations into insights and forward-looking recommendations 

What you'll need:

  • A bachelor’s degree in agricultural finance, business, or commerce
  • At least five years of experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience).

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Relationship Manager

Location: Woodstock, ON


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/13/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Passion for agriculture required:
Manage relationships with local producers and be responsible for a developing loan portfolio. You’ll tailor financing packages to meet your customers’ needs, including both lending and non-lending products, and help them build success. 

What you’ll do:

  • Work with customers to build financing packages that meet their business needs
  • Build relationships with FCC customers and internal partners
  • Look for opportunities to build your loan portfolio
  • Travel to visit customers on their farm or in the office
  • Analyze customer financial information
  • Create, process and approve new credit facilities 

What we’re looking for:

  • Confident communicator with strong analytical skills
  • Ability to connect and build business relationships
  • Sales and negotiation skills combined with sound judgment
  • Self-starter who embraces change
  • Organizational pro who can manage multiple priorities 

What you’ll need:

  • A degree in agriculture, business or commerce and at least three years of related ag finance or sales experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience); a professional agrologist designation is an asset
  • A drive to help others achieve their goals
  • A love for agriculture

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District Director

Location: Yorkton, SK


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/11/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Lead a proven sales team:
Reporting to the Vice-President, Operations, you’ll direct local lending, develop sales and marketing strategies, and manage the district’s substantial loan portfolio. You’ll lead and coach a successful sales team, authorize large credit proposals and nurture industry relationships. 

What you’ll do:

  • Mentor the district team on our relationship management process, customer experience standards and culture
  • Manage the district including its operation and business results
  • Build relationships with external partners such as industry associations, other corporate representatives, accountants and realtors
  • Ensure district activities and goals are in line with corporate objectives and policy 

What we’re looking for:

  • A confident communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • A leader who builds relationships, embraces change and focuses on efficiency
  • Extensive knowledge of agriculture and credit adjudication
  • A multi-tasker who can manage other revenue areas including insurance and software sales 

What you’ll need:

  • A degree in agriculture, business or commerce and at least seven years of related leadership and lending experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience); a professional agrologist designation is an asset
  • A drive to help others achieve their goals
  • Excellent coaching skills

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Business Intelligence Analyst (Finance)

Location: Regina, SK


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/07/2023 
Worker Type: Term (Fixed Term) 
Language(s) Required: English 
Term Duration (in months):

Expertise in integrated planning and financial and capital management practices required
With a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation, provide business analysis and foresight on integrated, financial model-driven processes and solutions. 

What you’ll do:

  • Understand specific business domain(s) and drive insights from data, ensuring needs are met
  • Create analytics solutions from a large variety of structures and sources
  • Work with stakeholders and teams to ensure analysis is understandable and actionable across subject areas
  • Analyze and reveal insights to decision makers, and help with sense-making and recommendations 

What we’re looking for:

  • An analytical thinker who can design and develop strategies to assist business users in quickly finding the information they need to make better business decisions
  • Creative problem-solver with strong research and analytical skills
  • Relationship-builder comfortable making recommendations for improvements in data process and quality

What you’ll need:

  • A bachelor’s degree in agriculture, finance, business, economics, mathematics, statistics, or computer science and at least four years of experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
  • An understanding of statistics and mathematics or data configuration combined with strong business domain knowledge
  • Advanced working knowledge of data manipulation and management tools, as well as mastery of one or more visualization tools

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Customer Service Assistant (Casual)

Location: Kentville, NS


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/09/2023 
Worker Type: Casual 
Language(s) Required: English 

Customer service skills a must
Greet everyone with a warm smile and friendly reception. Use your organizational, word processing and computer skills to prepare documentation, maintain filing systems and manage correspondence. We’re looking for someone to help us occasionally when coverage is needed in the office. These work shifts will be infrequent on an as-needed basis. 

What you’ll do:

  • Respond to inquiries in person and over the phone
  • Maintain customer records by updating and recording account information
  • Process incoming and outgoing mail, order office supplies and schedule appointments
  • Accept customer payments, handle receipts and complete daily bank deposits 

What we’re looking for:

  • Customer-focused with strong teamwork and people skills
  • A friendly attitude that connects with customers
  • Organized and detailed multi-tasker
  • Able to deal with change, make decisions and solve problems 

What you’ll need:

  • A certificate in office administration or at least one year of related experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
  • Basic administration skills
  • A love for agriculture

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Relationship Manager

Location: Lethbridge, AB


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/07/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Passion for agriculture required:
Manage relationships with local producers and be responsible for a developing loan portfolio. You’ll tailor financing packages to meet your customers’ needs, including both lending and non-lending products, and help them build success. 

What you’ll do:

  • Work with customers to build financing packages that meet their business needs
  • Build relationships with FCC customers and internal partners
  • Look for opportunities to build your loan portfolio
  • Travel to visit customers on their farm or in the office
  • Analyze customer financial information
  • Create, process and approve new credit facilities 

What we’re looking for:

  • Confident communicator with strong analytical skills
  • Ability to connect and build business relationships
  • Sales and negotiation skills combined with sound judgment
  • Self-starter who embraces change
  • Organizational pro who can manage multiple priorities 

What you’ll need:

  • A degree in agriculture, business or commerce and at least three years of related ag finance or sales experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience); a professional agrologist designation is an asset
  • A drive to help others achieve their goals
  • A love for agriculture

APPLY NOW

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Location: Regina, SK


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/18/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Cyber security expertise required
Join our team of experienced cyber security professionals responsible for the security tools, technologies and processes that underpin FCC’s Cyber Security program. You’ll help shape the vision for the program, apply global threat intelligence to security controls, monitor and respond to security incidents, and participate in proactive activities such as threat hunting, penetration testing and red teaming.

You’re familiar with related frameworks and practices including NIST CSF, CIS or ISO 27k, SIEM, incident response, cloud security governance, and vulnerability and incident management. Using your strong interpersonal and communication skills, you’ll collaborate with colleagues to recommend and implement security improvements. 

What you’ll do:

  • Mitigate immediate and potential threats
  • Investigate and analyze relevant response activities
  • Co-ordinate incident response functions
  • Provide expert-level technical support to product teams
  • Assess and manage vulnerability issues
  • Develop detailed plans for support of cyber operations in collaboration with stakeholders
  • Recommend cyber security options to leadership
  • Develop, measure and monitor key performance indicators
  • Create plans for investigation of alleged crimes, violations or suspicious activities
  • Prepare cyber defence recommendations, reports and white papers on incident findings 

What we’re looking for:

  • Proven coach and mentor
  • Experienced mediator comfortable facilitating difficult discussions about complex issues
  • Collaborative team player able to influence senior leaders to share information
  • Innovative problem-solver who thrives in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong communicator with proven interpersonal skills who can convey technical information in plain language
  • Critical thinker with natural intellectual curiosity 

What you’ll need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, math or engineering and at least eight years of related experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
  • Expertise with security event correlation tools
  • Experience collecting intrusion artifacts and using discovered data to mitigate events

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Senior HR Business & Systems Analyst

Location: Regina, SK


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/16/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent
Language(s) Required: English 

Human Resources systems experience needed.
Using your extensive knowledge of Workday, you’ll administer, configure and support various functional areas within the system. You’ll also lead the planning, technical, and functional maintenance and support for all FCC Human Resources technology platforms. 

What you’ll do:

  • Lead Workday business process configuration, modifications and implementation
  • Gather requirements and design reports and dashboards
  • Investigate, test and resolve functionality to provide support and solutions
  • Assess business needs and drive clarity in HR data requirements to meet deliverables
  • Recommend how technology can be leveraged to streamline HR business processes 

What we’re looking for:

  • Confident communicator with strong analytical skills
  • Technical aptitude
  • Ability to translate business requirements
  • Organizational pro who can manage multiple priorities 

What you’ll need:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Information Systems or related field
  • 6 to 8 years experience with database applications and HRIS system implementation, configuration, business requirements documentation and reporting/analysis
  • Experience with Workday Human Capital Management System an asset

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Senior Relationship Manager

Location: Rosetown, SK


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/11/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Agriculture lending expertise rewarded:
Focus on key relationships with large, complex primary producers and plan sales strategies and tactics that appeal to both customers and prospects. You’ll tailor financing packages to meet your customers’ needs, including both lending and non-lending products, and help them build success. 

What you’ll do:

  • Work with our largest customers to build financing packages that meet their complex business needs
  • Partner with FCC Relationship Management Associates and use our relationship management process to identify and focus on key prospects
  • Analyze complex loan applications and business proposals
  • Build relationships with customers, prospects and external partners such as accountants and realtors
  • Network and attend community meetings and trade shows to promote FCC
  • Go on the road to meet with potential customers and learn about their businesses

What we’re looking for:

  • Confident communicator with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Leader who builds relationships and embraces change
  • A detailed approach to marketing, sales and appraisals
  • Extensive ag industry knowledge
  • Mentor who can help Relationship Managers structure deals

What you’ll need:

  • Degree in agriculture, business or commerce and at least four years of related ag finance or sales experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience); a professional agrologist designation is an asset
  • A drive for sales success and to help others achieve their goals
  • A love for agriculture

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Senior Relationship Manager, Commercial Financing

Location: Ajax, ON


Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY): 06/12/2023 
Worker Type: Permanent 
Language(s) Required: English 

Commercial lending expertise rewarded
Manage and develop a commercial portfolio of agribusiness and agri-food customers in your region. You’ll tailor complex financing packages to meet your customers’ needs and help them build financial success. 

What you’ll do:

  • Build relationships with entrepreneurs, industry leaders and business executives as you manage a complex portfolio of agribusiness and agri-food customers
  • Develop and execute strategies for marketing financing packages to businesses that enhance the Canadian agri-food value chain
  • Assess the appropriate level of due diligence required for complex loan applications
  • Negotiate agreements and evaluate market potential in your geographic area
  • Develop a network of referral sources to increase FCC business opportunities with a focus on staying highly visible in the marketplace 

What we’re looking for:

  • A sharp eye for identifying opportunities with key prospects
  • Professional consultative sales and business development practices
  • In-depth knowledge of local agribusiness and agri-food industries
  • Strong communication skills when dealing with leaders and executives of complex businesses
  • An aptitude for financial analysis and lending proposals
  • Expertise in credit risk analysis and negotiating financing packages with entrepreneurs and executives, including venture and equity capital providers
  • Financial and commercial lending knowledge, including lending and sales practices 

What you’ll need:

  • An undergraduate degree and eight or more years of related commercial lending experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)

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