Job Title: Glasshouse Grower
Reporting to: Glasshouse Manager
Start Date: 1 November 2024

Main Duties:

• Delivery of high-quality crops all year round
• Management of daily Irrigation & Fertigation strategies
• Management of the daily glasshouse growing environment including temperature, humidity, and CO2 control.
• Regular crop walking highlighting and recording any Pest & Disease issues, required crop management work, including husbandry jobs and harvest timing.
• Regular crop walks, monitoring all settings and growing environments to ensure optimum crop health and performance at all times.
• Assist in creating spray plans and schedules ensuring crops are being sprayed at the correct time and in the correct way.
• Along with the Glasshouse Manager make a detailed plan of all Husbandry jobs required on a rolling weekly basis. During Harvest carry out regular field checks highlighting any potential issues.
• Biological control monitoring, ordering process and tracking.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Excellent communication skills – essential
• Strong analytical skills, self – motivated – essential
• Flexibility on working hours, including weekend, bank holidays – essential
• UK/EU Driving Licence – essential
• Ideal candidate will have relevant growing experience in a commercial Glasshouse environment, preferably within soft fruit production.
• Must speak English, be computer literate and able to work individually and in a team.

Benefits:

From Day 1: Company mobile, Pension scheme 5% employer contribution, 33 days holiday (pro-rata & including Bank Holidays), option to buy/sell 1 week holiday, Employee Assistance Programme, Free Parking, Electric Car charge port, maternity & paternity leave & pay, Company Sick pay.

Post successful probation: Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, Annual discretionary Company bonus scheme, Cycle to Work scheme, Eye test and glasses contributions, Long Service Awards.