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About the role
This is a senior leadership opportunity for an experienced professional with strong technical growing knowledge, commercial awareness, and proven leadership skills within large-scale horticultural production.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage all day-to-day growing operations
- Develop crop strategies to maximise yield, quality, and consistency
- Oversee irrigation, fertigation, climate control, and crop nutrition programmes
- Monitor crop health and implement effective pest and disease management plans
- Analyse crop performance data and implement continuous improvements
- Manage and develop the growing team
- Work closely with operational teams to ensure production targets are achieved
- Ensure full compliance with health & safety and farm operating procedures
- Support budget planning and resource allocation
- Drive innovation and best practice across growing systems
Qualifications & experience
- Minimum 5 years’ commercial growing experience within soft fruit or protected cropping
- Proven leadership experience managing growing teams
- Strong knowledge of irrigation, fertigation, crop nutrition, and IPM
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- Strong communication and decision-making ability
- Full UK driving licence
- Degree in Horticulture / Agriculture / Plant Science
- Experience with protected cropping systems
- Experience managing large-scale commercial soft fruit production
Candidate requirements
All applicants must hold a minimum of an NVQ Level 2, Scottish NVQ Level 2, or an equivalent qualification relevant to the role applied for. Candidates must also have the legal right to work in the UK or hold a valid visa permitting employment.
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