Farm Manager

Company: CV-Library
Job type: Full-time

Farm Manager

We are recruiting on behalf of a well-established and prestigious company who provide a range of fresh vegetables to retail, foodservice, wholesales, and food manufacturing. Due to their continued growth and development, they are seeking to employ a Farm Manager for their Holbeach, Lincolnshire site.

Are you passionate about sustainable agriculture, growing high quality crops, and managing a diverse and skilled team of people.

This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and dedicated Farm Manager to join a forward-thinking company, and lead all of their vegetable production.

Permanent role – full time.

Excellent salary offered depending on experience, skills, and knowledge.

Purpose of the role:

As the Farm Manager for vegetables, you will be responsible for the planning, cultivation, planting, and husbandry of all vegetables crops as well as the harvesting of spinach crops.

If you hold FACTS and BASIS, have previous experience managing a team, love being hands on with crops and are scientific in your approach, this could be the role for you.

The role is hands on, and there’s no doubt you will be working hard. Previous experience working in farming is essential with vegetable crop growing desirable.

The team are young, and enthusiastic, there is a fantastic opportunity manage the skills they already have and develop them into a highly skilled, and high performing team.

The client is a 5th generation food and farming business. They are vertically integrated growing most of the produce they sell on their own farms. They operate from two sites in South Lincolnshire, have farming operations in Spain and Italy, employing up to 750 people.

They are always looking for ways to invest and grow the business and farming is the foundation behind this.

Vegetable production in the UK is around 700ha and is run closely with arable production of 2500ha

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