FARM SUPERVISOR 1
Career Family: FARM SUPERVISOR
Farm Supervisor 1 is a competitive state title, the kind you test for: the exam result, not a hiring manager's pick, decides where you land in line.
Of the 2 Farm Supervisor grades this one pays the most, sitting just above Farm Supervisor 2. What it takes is 5 years of relevant experience. Pay on the FY 2027 schedule runs $72,896 to $106,798, and state payroll lists a single employee in the title, at Corrections.
How to apply
This title is filled by competitive examination.
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Farm Supervisor 1 appears on the State payroll at one department, Department of Corrections.
State departments
| Employer | Employees |
|---|---|
| Department of Corrections | 1 |
State payroll and independent authority payroll are separate systems and are never merged. See data sources.
Pay ladder: Farm Supervisor series
- Farm Supervisor 2 — $66,592 – $97,354
- Farm Supervisor 1 — $72,896 – $106,798 (this title)
Its top salary lands around the 54th percentile of all NJ civil service titles that publish a range.
Rungs are ordered by FY 2027 pay. NJ level numbers are not always sequential, so ordering follows salary rather than the title number.
Who employs this title
State payroll records show 1 person working under this title. The median actual salary is $103,187. The agencies employing the most are:
- Corrections (1)
Counts from NJ YourMoney agency payroll. See statewide workforce analytics.
Official job specification
The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.
Definition
Under the direction of a supervisory official in the Department of Corrections, has charge of a designated AgriIndustries location(s) and/or satellite facility(s) and oversight of related agricultural activities; does other related work as required.
Examples of work
- Consults with supervisory officials, Administrators, the Business Manager, and/or the Food Service Supervisor to determine the agricultural needs of the department/institution(s) and makes recommendations.
- Plans and develops suitable work programs.
- Supervises the assignment, instruction and performance of work of employees, inmates and/or residents in fertilizing and cultivation of soil; producing, harvesting and storing crops; operating greenhouses, cold frames, and nurseries; caring for lawns, flower beds, shrubbery and trees, fruit trees, and orchards; maintaining grounds, driveways, and areas around facility buildings; caring for dairy herds, cattle, work stock, swine, beef and poultry; and in operating, adjusting, repairing, and maintaining automotive and other farm equipment machinery, and maintaining tools of varied types; and in safety and sanitation procedures.
- Supervises work operations and/or functional programs, and has responsibility for employee evaluations and for effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting, and/or disciplining of employees.
- Allocates acreage for special crops and other uses.
- Supervises the work involved in maintaining institutional installations and buildings, including the sanitation of barns, stables, milk houses, pens, poultry houses, root cellars, and other vegetable storage facilities.
- Prepares estimates of the personnel, equipment, materials, fertilizers, seed supplies and other required materials.
- Prepares requisitions for equipment, materials and supplies.
- Maintains records and files.
- Prepares essential reports
- Records, receives, reviews, and compiles information and data from subordinate staff reports concerning varied phases of the farm's agricultural activities and production reports.
- Will be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office, or related units.
Experience
Five years of experience in farm management, two years of which shall have included responsibility for the oversight of staff and agricultural activities as a supervisor or lead worker.
License
Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.
Knowledge, skills and abilities
- Knowledge of the science and art of agriculture.
- Knowledge of the problems associated with a moderately large farm unit using skilled and unskilled staff and inmates.
- Knowledge of the methods used to organize farm operations.
- Ability to plan, organize, and oversee farm activities, including the preparation of soils, planting, tilling, harvesting and storage of farm crops; breeding and care of livestock, poultry, and other farm animals; and the spraying and harvesting of fruits and berries.
- Ability to supervise the use, maintenance, repair, storage and utilization of farm machinery and equipment.
- Ability to locate and utilize the most effective methods, materials, and techniques in improving the soil, and controlling insects, other pests and diseases.
- Ability to determine the possibilities and limitations of an institutional farm and make the most effective use of available personnel, equipment, materials and supplies.
- Ability to assign and instruct individuals and/or groups of employees, residents and/or inmates and supervise the work performance.
- Ability to supervise those measures required to ensure the safety, custody, control, and progress of residents and inmates assigned to farm work.
- Ability to develop and implement individual plans of work for the varied divisions of farm activities, including dairies, the stock farms, the vegetable and flower gardens, forage crops, and other related activities.
- Ability ensure that crops are properly harvested and stored.
- Ability to prepare clear, accurate, and informative statistical progress, and other reports containing findings, conclusions and recommendations.
- Ability to maintain the essential records and files.
- Ability to read, writes, speak, understand and communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
- Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible.