Harvest Supervisor
Job Type : Permanent, Full Time
Salary :
We have an exciting opportunity for a permanent Harvest Supervisor to join Agrial Fresh Farms in Colchester. You'll be a key member of our dedicated farming team supplying the freshest salad leaves to market! You will have experience of agriculture and harvesting, ideally in outdoor wholehead crops, and you understand the full process required from start to finish. You'll have experience in supervising members of staff across various backgrounds and can lead and motivate a team to success.
Pay: Competitive plus annual bonus and benefits
Working hours: Scales based on season. Mon-Fri during November-March and Mon-Sat during April-October
Main Responsibilities
* Day to day supervision of the harvesting teams. Report any staffing, quality or quantity issues to the Harvest Manager.
* To ensure that the harvest teams are working within company guide lines and all hygiene and dress code rules in the field are being adhered to.
* To ensure all Health & Safety is adhered to as a matter of principle in line with all company policies.
* Crop walking and attention to detail of all outdoor crops for quality and availabilities, assisting the Harvest Manager on a day to day basis.
* Check that all weekly and monthly start up sheets/ record sheets are complete and up to date, along with daily Tractor/Rig maintenance sheet and the daily cleaning sheets.
* Achieve good control of productivity for the day to day field harvest operations, attempt to keep yields as close to budget or better if possible.
Skills and Experience Required
* Good understanding of Outdoor Wholehead Crops
* Previous harvesting and operational skills across any product harvests
* Experience of leading teams, ideally up to 20-30 people at once.
* Desirably multi-lingual, though not required.
What You Will Get In Return
A competitive salary, inclusion in our annual bonus scheme and a range of employee benefits you’d expect from a market leading business, including:
* Life Assurance – three times your basic salary paid to your nominated beneficiary.
* Access to our Employee Assistance Programme: providing a Remote GP service along with a 24/7 helpline for financial, legal, medical and life issues.
* A flexible & competitive annual leave entitlement that increases with service and offers an option to purchase additional holiday.
* Personalised training and development.
* Employee discount and salary finance schemes.
* Recognition awards and an annual volunteering day.
About Us
Agrial Fresh Farms is one of three UK food manufacturing factories which is a part of the larger 22,000 employee strong French co-operative group, Agrial. Agrial has operations across 18 regions with 280 farming outlets and it's not just about lettuce!
Our Agrial Fresh Farms site is an integrated farming operation based in Colchester, Essex. Our salad farm provides baby leaf year-round to the UK, grown in polytunnels, and whole head and outdoor crops throughout the summer. The produce is supplied into our UK sites for processing and distribution. We are now one of the UK’s leading producers in the industry and under the well-known Florette brand, we produce and distribute pre-packed, ready to eat, fresh salad bags and bowls to some of the UK's most well-known supermarkets and retailers, as well as your favourite restaurants and fast food vendors.
All UK sites operate under the name of Agrial Fresh Produce Limited and fall under Agrial's vegetable division. We have a recipe for success through our EPIC values and working together as one team.
Next Steps
It’s an exciting time to join our business! We’re looking for positive and innovative people to join our growing, professional team. If you have the skills and experience we are looking for, and want a new challenge in a company experiencing success we would love for you to join us on our journey!
Please apply directly or alternatively contact Will Kaye, Recruitment Officer for a totally confidential discussion.
Note to recruitment agencies: this role is being handled by the company HR team and no agency contact is required.
Agrial Fresh Produce reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
We are committed to supporting the mental health and wellbeing of all of our staff. That’s why we’ve taken the Mental Health at Work Commitment and are currently delivering a programme of activities to ensure that everyone can have open and honest conversations about their wellbeing in the workplace and feel supported. We encourage applications from persons with experience of poor mental health and are committed to supporting our employees to fulfil their potential and perform at their best in work.
Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd is an Equal Opportunities employer. In addition, as part of Responsible Recruitment, Agrial Fresh Produce Ltd believes in the Employer Pay Principle. No worker should pay for a job – the costs of recruitment should be borne not by the worker but by the employer
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