Farm Supervisor

About the role

You are the middle of the farm structure and the reason it works. Five farm projects sit under you, each with its own Farm Portfolio Executive, and you are accountable for all five.

You do not manage farms directly. You manage the people who do. Your executives plan their own days, direct their own labour and keep their own records. Your job is to check that their plans are sound before the day starts, that the work is happening, that their records are honest, and that they are developing into people who need less of your time rather than more.

Beyond your five projects you also call on the shared teams when your projects need them. When one of your farms needs planting or replanting you go to the Plantation Executives. When something needs developing you go to Farm Development. When a harvest window is coming you work with the Harvest Executives on the schedule.

A good part of the role is judgement about plants. Your executives identify problems. You decide what is routine and can be handled, and what needs the specialist. Getting that line wrong in either direction costs you, either in wasted consultation or in a problem that spread while it was being watched.

You also carry the training load. Junior executives are learning on your projects, and whether they become capable is on you as much as on the senior they sit with.

You report to the Farm Manager and you are the escalation point for everything below you. Anything that genuinely needs the Farm Manager comes through you.

You will be judged on mortality across all five of your projects, on whether work is planned ahead rather than reacted to, and on whether your executives need less supervision over time.

What you would do

• Own the outcome on five farm projects run by five portfolio executives
• Review each executive’s plan for the next day and challenge it where it is thin
• Walk the projects regularly rather than managing from reports alone
• Decide what is routine and what needs specialist consultation, and raise it
• Coordinate with the Plantation, Development and Harvest teams for work on your projects
• Hold your executives to their records and reporting, daily
• Train and develop junior executives alongside their seniors
• Approve labour, material and equipment requirements from your projects and pass them up
• Be the escalation point so the Farm Manager is not pulled into daily farm matters
• Report project status and mortality upward through the company app

What we are looking for

• A degree in agriculture or horticulture, ideally with a masters or equivalent depth
• Five years or more in farm operations, with at least two managing people rather than fields
• Real working knowledge of plant health, irrigation and nutrition. Enough to judge what is serious
• A people manager first. This role is about getting results through others, not personal expertise
• Able to hold a team to records and standards without being present all the time
• Willing to be based on the farms and travel between projects daily
• Fluent in the local language for team and labour management
• Comfortable using a smartphone and a laptop for reporting

What you can count on

How we hire

1. Step 1Apply in two minutesYour name, your mobile number and your resume. If you have no role in mind, leave your details in the talent pool instead and we will call when something fits.
2. Step 2A call from HRWe call to understand what you have done and what you want to do next, and to answer whatever you want to ask us.
3. Step 3The interviewWith HR and the manager for the role. If you are selected, a founder interview follows before the offer.
4. Step 4The offerIf it is a fit, HR makes you an offer setting out the role, the pay and the start date, and goes through it with you before you decide.

About Hebbevu

Hebbevu farms 1200+ acres without chemicals and looks after 2000+ desi cattle, and has delivered 19+ managed farmland projects for 1600+ co-farmers. Three brands sit on that: Hebbevu Managed Farmland at the farms in Penukonda, Hebbevu Fresh in the factory and the stores around Bengaluru, and Hebbevu Genetics with the cattle.