Assistant Technical Growing Manager

Our industry-leading client are currently recruiting for an Assistant Technical Manager to join their team based in the Chichester area, West Sussex. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking for a team environment with a well-established and successful wholesale Horticultural business.

Our client is a market leading customer focussed organisation who supply high quality plants to the wholesale market. They have a stable team of 45 employees rising to 80 in season based across 4 nurseries in West Sussex. They are highly regarded in the Industry for their sales and marketing of plants & shrubs.

In this critical role you will work alongside and under the direction of the Lead Technical Manager to deliver all aspects of technical growing to plan and deliver a quality product to our customers expectations including:-

• Crop agronomy walks to identify operational tasks and integrated pest management.
• Plant nutrition and growing media selection.
• Research & Development
• New product development
• Supporting with the planning and purchasing of crops.
• Maintaining excellent relationships with all of our young plants and growing media suppliers.
• The development and continual review of quality systems.
• Assurance scheme audit preparation.

To be suitable for the role of Assistant Technical Manager you should have:

• Excellent communication skills
• A passion for horticulture / plants
• Excellent attention to detail & numeracy skills
• The ability to change pace where required to fulfil the tasks in hand
• Self-motivated, ambitious, curious, with a can-do attitude
• IT Proficiency in Excel, Word, Outlook
• Keen interest in commercial horticulture
• Industry experience ideally in an operational / technical position or experience studying for a horticultural qualification
• Degree in Agriculture/Horticulture, Biology, Plant Science or related subject desirable, but not essential

This position offers a great opportunity for somebody starting or willing to pursue a career in the Horticulture or Fresh produce industry in a management and / or technical role. This is a developmental role and full training in all aspects of the job will be provided. This will lead to a requirement to complete BASIS and FACTS training once sufficient practical experience has been gained.

They offer a competitive salary and a friendly team environment. Please be aware that weekend work is an integral part of this role, managed on a rotational basis.