Join a forward-thinking soft fruit business where your horticultural career will flourish through hands-on experience and structured development.
Assistant Grower - Soft Fruit
Herefordshire
£DOE + Training + Development Opportunities
Ready to play your part in feeding the nation?
Want to develop your career and learn from experienced growers and develop your technical skills in a commercial environment?
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward-thinking soft fruit business where development is genuinely part of the culture.
Whether you've recently studied horticulture or already have some commercial growing experience, you'll be joining a team that will support your progression and help you develop your career.
What's on offer?
- Full-time, permanent position
- Structured training and mentoring from experienced growers
- Opportunity for internal and external training
- Exposure to modern growing systems and technology, including Priva
- Clear progression opportunities within a successful business
- The chance to work with a highly experienced growing team
- Competitive salary and benefits package
What's the job?
You'll support the Growing Managers across all aspects of crop production, learning how a large-scale commercial growing operation works while developing your own technical knowledge and responsibility.
Day to day, you'll be:
- Monitoring irrigation, EC, pH, drain and drip water performance
- Using and managing PRIVA
- Crop walking and monitoring plant health
- Implementing pest and disease management programmes
- Assisting with biological controls and crop protection
- Supporting in and overseeing planting programmes
- Monitoring crop quality and environmental conditions
- Maintaining growing records and supporting traceability requirements
Working closely with colleagues across growing, production and planning teams and as you develop, you'll take on greater responsibility for decision-making, crop performance and planning activities.
What do I need?
- A horticulture, agriculture or related qualification
- Ideally, you'll have commercial growing experience
- A genuine interest in crop production and commercial horticulture
- PA1 and PA6 are desirable, but not essential
- Strong attention to detail and willingness to learn
- Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a team
- A practical, hands-on approach
What's next?
Please apply through Indeed for this exciting opportunity.
