Lead Grower – Tresemple Farm, Truro

About the role

An exciting opportunity for a grower to lead a new field-scale growing operation and develop a great business within the organic growing community in Cornwall. Tresemple is a mixed organic farm, with 20 acres of organic vegetables on a rotation.

Responsibilities

• Managing wholesale and local sales of crops, communicating with customers
• Directing harvest teams and harvesting
• Managing the pack shed and packing
• Admin and invoicing
• Timetabling the seasonal harvest workforce
• Working closely with the farm manager to manage the growth and sale of the vegetables

Requirements

Essential Skills

• Minimum 1 year commercial horticultural experience
• Experience working outdoors in all weather, good dexterity and speed
• Highly organised, good record keeping
• Comfortable with supervising and managing work teams
• Resilient, hardy and a team player

Desirable Skills

• Field scale organic veg experience
• Managing tractors, planters and weeders
• Crop planning experience

Pay

£12.21-£16.00 per hour depending on experience

Schedule

Permanent role, flexible hours ~25 a week, over 4 days, with more work available at peak harvesting times

Own transport necessary