FIELD TECHNICAL MANAGER (SOUTH)

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Albert Bartlett is a progressive British family brand, established in 1948 and dedicated to providing quality potatoes for delicious meals.

Our Values are what drive us to be the very best at what we do:

Family Heritage; Honest; Potato experts; Progressive

We want Albert Bartlett to be a world famous household brand, renowned for quality and expertise in own label and branded potatoes and potato products.

We aim to be an innovative and improving company that exceeds our customers' expectations while operating in an environmentally responsible and sustainable way. The business prides itself on a strong-family feel environment.

Apply now

Back to jobs

Important Information
Location: BOSTON, Albert Bartlet & Sons (Airdrie) Ltd, Kirton Holme, Boston, England, Lincolnshire, PE20 1TT

Date Posted: 11th October 2024

Closing Date: 1st November 2024

Industry: Food Production

Job Type: Full time

Salary: Based on Experience

About the role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and proactive person to manage our field technical duties across our English grower/supplier locations

Reporting into the Procurement Manager daily the role will predominantly be based at our Boston, Lincolnshire fresh packhouse, but will include a requirement to travel to supplier locations in Yorkshire, Shropshire, East Anglia, the East Midlands and our Albert Bartlett frozen processing site in Westwick , Norfolk.

Your main accountabilities will be to:

• To manage Carbon Auditing of our suppliers

• To manage and report on new potato varieties and trial variety plots.

• To manage and uphold supplier compliance, with accreditations required by both our fresh and processing customers.

• To manage 3rd party storage programs for both fresh and processing crops. Store intake, quality, temperature regime, sprout suppression, trial work.

• Quality sampling and reporting on both fresh and processing crops ( ex field and ex store) .

• To assist the Head of Farming with own growing accreditation audits.

• To source, manage and help coordinate seed supply to both contracted fresh and processing suppliers.

• The awareness to manage and tie in technical management of suppliers and crops, with the commercial requirements of both our fresh and processing sites.

Location: Albert Bartlett & Sons Boston Division, Kirton Holme, Boston, Lincs, PE20 1TT

Expected Start Date: Immediate

HOURS OF WORK

Full Time

COMPANY BENEFITS

• Some of our benefits include:
• Competitive Salary
• NEST Pension Scheme
• Annual Leave - 31 days (including bank hols)
• Long service awards
• Free parking
• Ride to Work Scheme

THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT

This is will be a hands-on role at times and candidates should be willing to travel and work with other departments within our business and wider grower group; a fine eye for detail and previous experience of Technical auditing and potato agronomy is also preferable for this role.