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Join the Heart of Organic Farming with Riverford's Dedicated Team and Reap a Harvest of Benefits
Overview
Salary
£14
Location
Sacrewell Lodge Farm
Expires
Expires at anytime
Embrace a fulfilling career at Riverford, an employee-owned leader in organic farming. Nestled within the scenic Peterborough countryside, Riverford offers a supportive and progressive environment where passion for sustainable agriculture and community thrives.
Role Summary:
- Lead a dynamic team in hand-picking seasonal vegetables.
- Engage in fieldwork, planting, crop management, and equipment operation.
- Coach and support team members, ensuring daily objectives are met.
- Maintain high standards of organization, reliability, and communication.
Role Requirements:
- Proven leadership in an agricultural setting is ideal.
- Strong teamwork, flexibility, and a positive attitude.
- Exceptional organizational skills and keen attention to detail.
- Good communication and comprehension of English.
- Hands-on approach with the ability to maintain work quality and rate.
- Capability to drive tractors and operate planting machinery as necessary.
- Full driving license and access to personal transport due to the rural location.
- A commitment to Riverford's organic mission.
Application Process Details:
- Applications are reviewed continuously, with the possibility of an early closing date.
- Applicants are encouraged to apply promptly to seize this exciting opportunity.
Work with us at Riverford, and join a thriving employee-owned business
- Be part of a friendly, engaging and committed Farm team.
- Lots of opportunities to learn, grow, and progress in your career.
- Riverford at Sacrewell Farm is a beautiful place to work, with lots of great people – and other perks too. Some of our benefits include: 33 days holiday pro rata (including bank holidays), generous company pension scheme, annual profit share (10% of all our profits are split equally between all co-owners), time and half on bank holidays, and when working over 39 hours per week, 2 paid volunteer days a year, free organic grade out fruit and veg and free parking.
What are we paying?….£14.14 per hour, paid weekly. The role requires a minimum of 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday, with some overtime available, including some weekend work. Start and finish times may vary depending on the season.
Where are we located….Sacrewell Lodge Farm, Thornhaugh, Peterborough, PE8 6HJ. Due to our rural location, having access to your own transport is essential for this role.
This is a 6-month fixed-term contract with the exciting potential for extension and the possibility of becoming a permanent position upon successful completion.
We are currently seeking an experienced Farm Supervisor to lead our team in hand-picking a variety of seasonal vegetables throughout the growing season. This role involves a mix of general outdoor field work, manual planting, moving crop covers, hoeing, weeding, operating our machine planter, and, when needed, driving the harvesting rig tractor.
What you’ll be doing…
You’ll be a great people-person, motivating and coaching your team to achieve what they need to do every day. While you’ll work in the picturesque Peterborough countryside, be prepared for variable weather conditions and you may have inexperienced members in your team who need a bit of extra support and guidance. This will take someone well organised, great at planning and prioritising, reliable, hard-working, and confident at communicating.
Ideally, you will have previous experience of leading a team in an agricultural setting, or of manually harvesting veg. Some of our fields are off the beaten track, so it’s essential that you have a full driving license.
Skills & experience…
- Ideally, experience of supervising a team in an agricultural setting
- Team player; enthusiastic, reliable, flexible, and adaptable demonstrating a ‘can-do’ attitude
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail
- You should have good communication skills and be able to speak and understand English to a level that enables you to comprehend instructions and the daily requirements of the role
- Able to be hands on with the team, working with them and setting a good work rate, as well as organising and keeping an eye on the quality of the work
- Occasional tractor driving as and when required
- Supervising the mechanical planting.
- Driving the forklift and using the electric pallet truck when required
- Be passionate about what we do at Riverford
* Please read Job Description attached for more details *
Application Process - We’ll be reviewing the applications throughout the duration of the advert and may chose to bring the closing date forwards, so we'd encourage you to apply at your earliest opportunity.
