Grower

  • Food Recruit Ltd TA Williams Recruitment
  • Jul 17, 2025
Full time Industrial

Job Description

Grower Fresh Produce

Are you a passionate and experienced Grower ready to cultivate a thriving career? We are a family-run, innovative fresh produce grower and packer, continuously developing new ranges and operating 24/7. We re seeking a hands-on Grower to join our team. If you re driven by achieving optimal yields, committed to the highest standards, and eager to grow with a dynamic business, we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity:

This role is for a true leader in cultivation. Working closely with our Works Manager and reporting to the Growing Consultant and Operations Director, you will be pivotal in overseeing our Growing team. You'll ensure our people and equipment contribute to the safe, efficient, and effective running of the site, supervising the growth of products to meet production plans and fulfil customer orders on time, all while adhering to stringent food safety and quality requirements. We help you hire the people who ll actually move the needle.

What You'll Be Doing:

  • Crop Cultivation & Management: Oversee the growing process, ensuring all houses are filled, transferred, and emptied according to KPIs. Implement climate control and fertigation strategies, and manage all crop husbandry work.

  • Team Leadership: Train new team members on disease control and elimination. Work with your team to achieve the best yield potential.

  • Quality & Compliance: Conduct crop walking and scouting for pests and diseases. Enforce and promote excellent health & safety practices, ensuring all work is safe, hygienic, and complies with FSA and health and safety legislation. Strictly adhere to GMP and 'clean as you go' housekeeping principles.

  • Operational Planning: Attend daily farm walks with other departments and participate in weekly planning meetings with the Growing Consultant. Ensure all growing operations are completed on time.

  • Continuous Improvement: Drive your own personal development through training and work-based experience. Report on KPI figures during monthly meetings.

What You'll Bring:

  • Growing Expertise: Previous experience in a similar growing role, ideally with soft fruit or another edible horticultural crop. You're highly knowledgeable in crop production and confident in making independent decisions.

  • Leadership & Management: Excellent management, communication, negotiation, and influencing skills. Proven ability to supervise people and projects, including health and safety management.

  • Drive & Attitude: A positive and proactive approach, a genuine desire to build a career in farm management/growing, and a "can do" attitude. You're happy to get stuck in and aren't afraid of hard work.

  • Organisational Acumen: Excellent organisational skills, able to plan and structure work effectively in a demanding environment.

  • Technical Skills: Sound IT skills, including MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel). Numerate and literate.

  • Essential Qualifications: Food hygiene qualification and HACCP Qualification.

Desirable, But Not Essential:

  • A degree in agriculture or horticulture.

  • Previous grower experience in a chilled, fast-paced FMCG environment.

  • BRC experience and knowledge of retailer audit protocols.

Hours of work

  • Flexible hours per week.

  • Rota basis 5 days per week to include weekend work Saturday Friday, flexibility during audits and customer Technical audits, visits and peak seasons.

  • 30 mins for lunch, & two 15min breaks morning & afternoon unpaid.

What We Offer:

A negotiable annual salary of up to £40,000, 28 days holiday (including bank holidays), and a contributory pension scheme after 3 months' service. This is a full-time role with flexible hours, operating on a rota basis 5 days per week to include weekend work.

Ready to help us hire the people who ll actually move the needle? Apply now!

About Williams Recruitment
We re Williams Recruitment a boutique agency that actually gets FMCG. We move fast, know our stuff, and only work with businesses we believe in. No egos, no waffle just honest advice, brilliant opportunities, and game-changing talent. Whether you re hiring or job hunting, we ll cut through the noise and make things happen.