Co-op’s commitment to community starts with our people – talented, energetic, motivated individuals who truly love what they do and seek to serve our local farmers by making them more successful. Think you have what it takes? You’re in the right place!
Local Co-ops provide a wide variety of career opportunities at over 165 retail locations in many specialized areas, including farm equipment, hardware, agronomy, feed, animal health, rural lifestyle and hunting & outdoors.
Opportunities may also be available at Tennessee Farmers Cooperative offering services to our member Co-ops, in accounting, marketing/communications, employee benefits administration, information systems, and retail development (just to name a few).
Each year, we also hire a group of summer interns to gain hands-on experience working with a member cooperative. This internship is eligible for school credit with most colleges/universities. For recent college graduates, the Cooperative Trainee program helps to prepare candidates for jobs at member Co-ops across our system. This training program lasts for one-year and will give the candidate a wide variety of training and education to help them advance their careers with Co-op.
Since each member Co-op is their own independently, operated business, benefits and employment packages may vary. Most member Co-op’s employee benefits include:
Current Job Openings
Here is a current listing of career opportunities within our Co-op system. 
Click on each job title to be taken to a full job description and our application page.
Smoky Mountain Farmers Co-op is a farm supply, lawn, garden, automotive, and outdoor power equipment store that strives to provide excellent customer service and provide products that meet the needs of our ever-changing area. They are looking for a customer service centered individual who will work closely with their customers in their power equipment department. This individual will work with customers providing sales recommendations, repairs, and solving problems. The right individual will be a self-motivated, interactive individual with excellent communication skills.
Smoky Mountain Farmers Co-op is a farm supply, lawn, garden, automotive, and outdoor power equipment store that strives to provide excellent customer service and provide products that meet the needs of our ever-changing area. They are looking for a well-educated, driven veterinarian to join their staff. This individual will visit farms to provide animal health recommendations, write prescriptions for medications and other products, and work closely with other staff to provide exceptional customer service to the farmer members and patrons of Smoky Mountain Farmers Cooperative.
Warehouse Team Members are responsible for carrying out the logistics of receiving, processing, storing and sending inventory according to purchase orders and shipping schedules. A good Warehouse Team Member has an excellent work ethic and is always looking for tasks to keep them busy. Robertson Cheatham Farmers Co-op is in search of a self-starter that looks for ways to contribute to their team and exceed production goals. Duties include, but are not limited to, loading orders onto trucks and shipping containers, organizing incoming stock and putting appropriate labels on outgoing parcels.
Smoky Mountain Farmers Cooperative is a farm supply, lawn, garden, automotive and outdoor power equipment store. They strive to provide excellent customer service and provide products that meet the needs of their ever-changing area. They are looking for a Branch Manager with an enthusiastic, self-motivated attitude who has a passion to make their local farmers more successful, profitable and efficient. This person will oversee employee and operations at their Newport, TN location.
Montgomery Farmers Cooperative is a full-service agronomy company, serving famers and retailers alike. They are looking for a Class A CDL Driver and General Laborer to work at their crops center in Clarksville, TN. When not delivering or administering product, this individual will assist in the sales, warehousing and movement of agronomy products. Our truck drivers can expect to be home each night!
Montgomery Farmers Cooperative is looking to hire a Sales Associate to work the sales counter and showroom in Clarksville, TN. They are a full-service agriculture supply and service provider offering everything you need for the farm, lawn and garden. They are looking for a service-oriented individual who is flexible, enjoys serving customers in the farming community, and is an overall team player to help identify and fill customer needs by quality great recommendations and solutions.
For General TFC Job Inquiries contact:
Human Resources
Tennessee Farmers Cooperative
P.O. Box 3003
LaVergne, TN 37086
(615) 793-8400
For Local Co-op Opportunities:
Contact your local Co-op by visiting our Locations page
For Training & Education Programs (including Internships and Scholarships) contact:
Scott Bohanon
TFC Education & Training Specialist
sbohanon@ourcoop.com
TFC EDUCATION & TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
The success of Tennessee Farmers Cooperative and our Co-op system’s future will continue to revolve around the ability to recruit, train and educate the highest-quality employees. The TFC Training & Education department recruits the best and brightest to provide a pool of capable, well-trained individuals who can assume key management and technological positions throughout our system. We focus on personal development through our Cooperative Trainee and Summer Internship programs.
COOPERATIVE TRAINEE PROGRAM
The goal of this yearlong, salaried program is for our Trainees to gain knowledge and experience under the direction of experienced personnel at a local, member Co-op. It includes exposure to and performance of duties and responsibilities in various aspects at the member Co-op and Tennessee Farmers’ Cooperative departmental levels. We also offer other training through 250 hours of continuing classroom education, 100 hours of team building and 45 hours of online training.
SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Each year, TFC hires 15-20 Summer Interns in collaboration with local member Co-ops. These paid internships allow students to gain knowledge and experience while working in a business environment for a 12-week periods. It include exposure to and performance of duties and responsibilities in various aspects at the member Co-op, Tennessee Farmers Cooperative department levels, and continuing classroom education.
CO-OP SCHOLARSHIPS
TFC offers 32 Co-op scholarships – each worth $2,000 – to qualified students who come from families of Co-op members. Applicants must attend the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, UT Martin, Tennessee Tech, Middle Tennessee State University, or Austin Peay. Each university, through its scholarship selection committee, actually chooses the scholarship recipients. College sophomores, juniors and seniors should contact their respective university’s School of Agriculture for application procedures.
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