FCS Data Specialist

at  Farm Compliance Services

Are you curious about problems that you can help solve with your ability to identify patterns and possibilities through numbers? Do you tell stories with data and statistics? Do you experiment with – and are you concerned about – AI in your work? And are you interested in using these skills to make agriculture more efficient and sustainable?
If you answered “yes” to these questions, then it’s worth your time to read on. You may be the person who helps us take a critical step forward as a company, and more importantly, in service of our clients, partners, and our environment.
Farm Compliance Services (FCS)
FCS provides advanced agronomic consulting support to farms. For over fifteen years, our firm has focused on helping our clients succeed in reaching their own production goals, while meeting environmental protection requirements and improving overall farm efficiency. We work with our clients to track on-farm practices, at the farmstead and field level, and help them utilize their farm data in a variety of ways. Sometimes this is for permit and compliance reporting, but many times farm data can help drive farm investment for the future.
We spend time on farms, with farmers, gathering farm data, analyzing it, and providing feedback and insights. Using the FCS approach to long-term data management, we are better prepared to help our clients obtain permits and participate in public and private incentive grant opportunities.
FCS also serves as expert agronomic consultants for a wide range of clients – from award winning cheese makers to some of America’s largest dairy producers – we help in their success. We consult with processors and milk purchasers on how today’s U.S dairy (our clients) are positively working toward reducing Greenhouse gas emissions and supply chain efficiencies. FCS agronomists assist clients as part of a collaborative team approach that is dedicated to helping the farm raise healthy herds and producing excellent milk, while maintaining environmental stewardship goals.
This means that our insights must demonstrate more than obvious summaries and pretty charts. We must ask questions, pursue conditional variables, and consider both the micro- and macro-elements at play in each given scenario. FCS generates IP through a combination of the “FCS Process” (the specific ways that we deliver our services) and “FCS Insights” (custom data, reports, and breakthroughs).
Geographically, we primarily work with farms in three states: Michigan, New York, and Vermont. That said, we have national and international partnerships and work with farms in other U.S. states. FCS continues to grow along with our client’s and we strive to provide unique, high-level, farm-specific consulting to help our clients meet the challenges of today’s marketplace.
If you are still reading this job description, then here is a bit of information about this opportunity
Purpose: The purpose of this role is to help FCS better evaluate the realities and possibilities of farm management operations/decisions and the sequestered insights hidden beneath the surface of baseline farm management data.

This role includes the obvious responsibilities you would expect – data collection and analysis, management, interpreting, quality control, reporting and presentation. The nuance of how you deploy your skills is what matters most to us. You can expect to do the following every day/week:
Immediately and indefinitely apply your background to develop fluency with the range of platforms the FCS team uses to deliver agronomic expertise.
Learn what data FCS gathers, why it gathers it, and how it is gathered
Support FCS Agronomic team with data input & data reports
Review, evaluate, and advise on data synthesis, management, and existing reports that FCS generates
Identify and interpret data, trends, and statistics; help our clients be more profitable and efficient while lessening their environmental impact
Help drive the FCS data analytic strategy including opportunities and limitations of A.I.
Actively participate on the consulting team
Deliverables/KPIs: Specific KPIs will be determined collaboratively as part of the final stage in the HR process.
Location: Remote
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9 – 5 EST or CST
Travel: Minimal travel required