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Assistant Technical Growing Manager
Job Posted: a day ago
Salary: £ 30,000 - 40,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Chichester, West Sussex
Expire in: a month
Job Description
Our industry-leading client are currently recruiting for an Assistant Technical Manager to join their team based in the Chichester area, West Sussex. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a team environment with a well-established and successful wholesale Horticultural business.
Our client is a market leading customer focussed organisation who supply high quality plants to the wholesale market. They have a stable team of 45 employees rising to 80 in season based across 4 nurseries in West Sussex. They are highly regarded in the Industry for their sales and marketing of plants & shrubs.
In this critical role you will work alongside and under the direction of the Lead Technical Manager to deliver all aspects of technical growing to plan and deliver a quality product to our customers expectations including:-
* Crop agronomy walks to identify operational tasks and integrated pest management.
* Plant nutrition and growing media selection.
* Research & Development
* New product development
* Supporting with the planning and purchasing of crops.
* Maintaining excellent relationships with all of our young plants and growing media suppliers.
* The development and continual review of quality systems.
* Assurance scheme audit preparation.
To be suitable for the role of Assistant Technical Manager you should have:
* Excellent communication skills
* A passion for horticulture / plants
* Excellent attention to detail & numeracy skills
* The ability to change pace where required to fulfil the tasks in hand
* Self-motivated, ambitious, curious, with a can-do attitude
* IT Proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook
* Keen interest in commercial horticulture
* Industry experience ideally in an operational / technical position or experience studying for a horticultural qualification
* Degree in Agriculture/Horticulture, Biology, Plant Science or related subject desirable, but not essential
This position offers a great opportunity for somebody starting or willing to pursue a career in the Horticulture or Fresh produce industry in a management and / or technical role. This is a developmental role and full training in all aspects of the job will be provided. This will lead to a requirement to complete BASIS and FACTS training once sufficient practical experience has been gained.
They offer a competitive salary and a friendly team environment. Please be aware that weekend work is an integral part of this role, managed on a rotational basisBefore You Apply
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