Details:
- Salary: £50,000 - Annum
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Annum
- Location: PE33 West Dereham Norfolk
- Date: 2 days ago
Description:
Our client is a well established for working for many years and predominantly with landowners, farmers and countryside management to offer services of Cereal Harvesting, Sugar Beet Harvesting, Cultivations, Drilling, Straw purchasing, Baling and Spraying.
The main purpose of the role is to assist the Agricultural Director, recruiting and staff inductions, tool box talk deliveries, instructions to staff, liaison with customers on a regular basis and ensuring machinery and equipment is fit for purpose with regular liaison with the workshop.
The Candidate will assist in all Health and Safety Management within this Department (delivery of tool box talks, site safety inspections to working practices, inductions of sites, instructions of work, writing RAMS, Method Statements and COSHH, dealing with accident reporting as well as fuel and oil spillages, whilst ensuring daily checks upon equipment/vehicles and machinery are complete).
The Candidate will work with the Ag Director in arranging all servicing and maintenance of machinery/equipment (not limited to Tractors, Balers, Combine Harvesters, Sugar Beet Harvesters, Ploughs, Drills, Hoes and other machinery).
Will require knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word and computer systems to liaise with customers and staff for email.
Liaison with administration department with regard to computerised HR system – signing and approving the team’s hours, return to work after sickness, and general information.
Working when required in collaboration with the Haulage Department where crossover of working operations or staffing.
Retaining a safe and tidy working environment within the outside depot.
Will require at least 3 years experience within Agricultural Operations and be knowledgeable with all machinery and equipment used within the Agricultural Industry predominantly CLAAS, ROPA and Case, including GPS systems. Must be able to operate machinery and equipment when within the busy season and to cover for sickness absence and holidays of staffing including the Agricultural Director.
The following qualifications are required;
NPTC PA1 and NPTC PA2 (Boom Spraying)
PA4S (may be required)
Experience of operating agricultural tractors (at least 3 years)
Experience of operating harvesting equipment (combine, sugar beet, balers).
Holidays 20 days per annum plus bank holidays
Statutory Sick Pay
Statutory Pension Scheme
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