Southern Irrigation is actively looking for aFull-Time Irrigation Consultant for our Kamloops location. The successful candidate should excel in customer service, have good communication skills, and a positive attitude. We welcome qualified international applicants that can effectively communicate (written and oral) in English, however this is not a remote work position.

Job Title: Irrigation Consultant

Location: 7900 Dallas Drive, Kamloops, BC

Job purpose: This positions primary responsibility is to increase sales and profitability by building and maintaining strong relationships with customers primarily through phone and email.

Key Result Areas

• Customer Service strong relationships are being built and maintained
• Sales Total sales and margin goals are set and met
• Technical knowledge training (product knowledge and application) goals are set and met
• Teamwork communicating, mentoring, networking, and helping other team members, departments, or locations

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide counselling and advisory services to farmers on crop cultivation and fertilization, harvesting, animal and poultry care, disease prevention, farm management, farm financing, marketing and other agricultural subjects
• Prepare and conduct advisory information sessions and lectures for farmers and other groups
• Conduct research, analyze agricultural data and prepare research reports
• Liaise with researchers, educators and government or business managers on matters pertaining to farming and agriculture
• Maintain records of services provided and the effects of advice given
• May operate unmanned aerial vehicle/drone to map drainage, plant seeds, analyze crop health and identify areas of stress and evenly spray fertilizers or pesticides

Competencies

• Irrigation theory and product knowledge
• Working understanding of costs, pricing, margin, mark-up, and currencies
• An empathetic communicator, able to see things from the other persons point of view
• Excellent time-management, planning, and organization skills
• Understands the drivers of return on investment for each client

Core Values

• Work ethic; be punctual, intelligent and efficient
• Win as a team; care for your coworkers professionally and personally
• Wow our customers; be respectful, intuitive, personal and efficient

As a provider of intelligent water solutions,Southern Irrigation strives to be best in the industry, and in return we provide amazing opportunities for our people.

Southern Irrigation offers impressive employee benefits such as 100% employer-paid health benefits plan, RRSP matching, culture and community events, and opportunities for employee bonuses.

At Southern Irrigation we know our success is based on having all A players rowing in the same direction. OurWork(hard),Win(as a team), andWow(our customers) attitude makes the environment at Southern Irrigation both challenging and fun.