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About Orbia:
Orbia Advance Corporation is a Purpose-led company with big aspirations. We are out to advance life around the world while maximising value to our shareholders, customers and employees. The Company is passionate about the topics that define how people will live and thrive tomorrow: the future of cities, buildings, agriculture, and materials. Orbia Advance Corporation has five business groups which offer innovative solutions across multiple industries including building and infrastructure, data communications, chemicals and more. In 2018, Orbia Advance Corporation bought a majority stake in Israeli-based Netafim, the world’s leader in drip irrigation, and is helping the world ‘grow more with less’ as it helps to solve food and water scarcity. Orbia Advance Corporation has operations in 41 countries with more than 22,000 employees.
We started as a producer of commodities and have evolved to become a provider of innovative solutions that address the global issues of rapid urbanization, water and food scarcity, and a growing and aging population. We’re already a global leader in Polymers, Fluor, Building & Infrastructure, Datacom, and Precision Irrigation. We have embarked on a CEO-led transformation, as part of our journey to become a truly purpose-led, future fit company. To learn more, visit: orbia.com
Key Responsibilities:
Promote the agronomic concept, principles, and practices of drip irrigation to all parties involved in the irrigation business (Extension Officers, Co-ops, fertilizer and Private Agronomists).
- Foster strong working relationships with relevant government bodies, research institutions, fertilizer companies, and relevant private corporations.
- Manage and monitor trials, including the processes involved with developing a trial and also managing approved trials for their duration.
- Provide sound agronomic advice for the use of drip irrigation, assisting clients in the planning, operation, and maintenance of drip systems.
- Establish and facilitate links with those groups with an interest in agronomic information such as researchers, extension officers etc.
- Visit potential projects to provide advice on the principles of drip i.e: spacing, delivery, scheduling, fertigation.
- Accompany sales staff on client visits to provide advice on drip irritation and its advantages.
- Regularly visit fertilizer companies and producers to discuss trends in the marketplace and determine ways in which Netafim and these companies can work together.
- Provide operation guidelines and after sales operation support to clients ie: scheduling.
- Represent Netafim Australia as required to present at seminars, symposiums, forums, and conferences.
- Provide written summaries of all activities undertaken for the purposes of developing a database of knowledge and communication between all relevant parties.
- Identify priority extensive crop segments and regions, assessing technical, economic, and water-use benefits to support market penetration and growth.
- Lead the development and execution of agronomic strategies to expand drip irrigation adoption in extensive crops across relevant states.
- Support pilot projects, demonstrations, and field trials in extensive crops to validate performance, build grower confidence, and enable commercial scale-up.
Research:
- Consult with relevant researchers and research institutes with regard to planning materials, field trends and research results.
- Initiate and support trials and research, in line with the company objectives in those crops with a strategic focus.
- Maintain contact with the agronomic fraternity to ensure information relevant to the irrigation business is obtained
- Communicate with Netafim Corporate Agronomy team to maintain an up-to-date database of relevant research material.
Requirements: Capabilities
- Strong capability to provide technical agronomic support and advice to growers, dealers, sales teams and other stakeholders on drip irrigation systems and practices.
- Demonstrated ability to promote the agronomic principles and benefits of drip irrigation, supporting adoption and best‑practice use across diverse crops and regions.
- Proven capability to work collaboratively with Sales, Engineering, Technical Support and Dealer networks to deliver integrated customer solutions.
- Ability to support both existing markets and the development of new markets, identifying opportunities to expand drip irrigation adoption.
- Strong capability to plan, manage and evaluate field trials and demonstrations, including trial design, implementation, monitoring and reporting.
- Ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships with growers, research institutions, government bodies, industry partners and private agronomists.
- Strong communication skills to present agronomic concepts clearly through field days, workshops, presentations and on‑farm engagement.
- Capability to translate agronomic insights into practical recommendations that improve crop performance, water efficiency and system outcomes.
- Strong data and observation skills to monitor crop response, system performance and trial outcomes.
- Demonstrated commitment to sustainability, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing across the business.
- Alignment with Netafim values and a professional, service‑oriented approach to customer and stakeholder engagement.
Experience
- Demonstrated experience in an agronomy, crop advisory or technical agriculture role (essential).
- Hands‑on experience applying irrigation agronomy, crop water management and soil–plant–water principles (essential).
- Experience working directly with growers and farming systems, supporting agronomic decision‑making (essential).
- Experience managing or supporting agronomic trials, demonstrations or research projects (desirable).
- Experience working in collaboration with sales, technical or engineering teams (desirable).
- Experience engaging with government, research or industry bodies (desirable).
- Tertiary qualification in Agronomy, Agricultural Science, Horticulture or a related discipline (essential).
We welcome purpose-driven dreamers, doers, and builders, recognizing that it takes difference to make a difference. If you’re ready to bring your skills, talents, and perspective to moving your career, the company, people, and the planet forward, we’d like to hear from you.
We believe that every voice matters; every community deserves respect; and every challenge is an opportunity and united by empathy, we are stronger for our different perspectives. We are dedicated to building a more diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace that supports the needs of all our employees regardless of their role, location, identity, and background.
