Reporting to our CEO, you will eventually lead our microgreens growing, packaging, shipping, and sanitation operations for our hydroponic indoor farm. You will also be responsible for managing two other team members and for maintaining good relationships with suppliers and customers. This really is not a job for the faint-hearted and neither is it a 9-5 job. You will be leading an exciting startup with ambitious growth plans. You will be very focused on being the best you can be, highly resilient, utterly dependable, and the type of person who never ever gives up.
We are a tiny early stage social enterprise looking for a very special person to recruit now and develop into the leader of our business by the end of this year.
We're hiring for ATTITUDE ! We don't need you to have experience or qualifications in hydroponics or management, or even any GCSEs … BUT you do need to be passionate about building a successful social enterprise, better mental health and creating a sustainable food system – and you will need to convince us of that at interview.
Reporting to our CEO, you will eventually lead our microgreens growing, packaging, shipping, and sanitation operations for our hydroponic indoor farm. You will also be responsible for managing two other team members and for maintaining good relationships with suppliers and customers.
This really is not a job for the faint-hearted and neither is it a 9-5 job. You will be leading an exciting startup with ambitious growth plans. You will be very focused on being the best you can be, highly resilient, utterly dependable, and the type of person who never ever gives up.
If that describes you, and this opportunity really excites you – read on …
You can't manage what you don't know, so initially you will learn every aspect of our business - from growing to sales, the people to the technology, the suppliers to the customers. You will learn how to sow seeds, scrub out trays, cut and pack microgreens, manage orders and production schedules, phone potential customers, work our social media, repair and rebuild our hydroponic system – it's an endless list!
Over the training period you will gradually take responsibility for our business, our employees and our customers. You will in time become responsible for the day-to-day running of an efficient business, managing people, budgets, food safety, equipment and stock. You will always remain hands-on, providing backup when colleagues are absent, and trialling new products and ways of growing.
At all times you will be expected to take a keen interest in hydroponic indoor farming, seek out ways to improve our operations, and explore new opportunities for the business such as new varieties of produce, and new services such as training and corporate events.
You will represent Growing Better at external events and be an evangelist about our business and social mission.
How To Apply
Once again, please do not be put off by your perceived lack of knowledge, skills or experience. All of these can be learned and acquired. What cannot is your attitude, ambition and quick mind. Finally and importantly, we will take account of the challenges you have faced in getting to where you are in your life.
If you would like to apply for this role, you should visit our web site and dowload the full job specification which includes details on how to apply.
Applying for this Position
You can find out about us on our web site and on social media. If you are invited for interview we will expect you to have done a bit of research on the internet and be able to talk about:
We don't expect you to be an expert on any of the above. But if you're really as keen as we need you be, you'll be mugging up on all of this anyway!
We particularly welcome applications from people:
We will endeavour to make adjustments for people with disabilities. Please bear in mind that this is a quite a physical role at times with quite heavy lifting, carrying, occasionally using a pallet fork, stretching, and getting into tight spaces around equipment required.
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