Farm Operative

5 months ago


Dundee, United Kingdom Intelligent Growth Solutions Full time

Are you looking to work for a company doing something truly incredible, disruptive and exciting? Now is your chance Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS) was founded in 2013 and has brought together decades of farming and engineering experience to create a market-leading agritech business with a vision to revolutionise indoor growing.
Over the last decade, IGS has built its reputation as a leading global provider of vertical farming technology, and is now looking to recruit a Farm Operative to join the team.

The business runs five fully functional indoor Vertical Farming Towers at the James Hutton Institute in Invergowrie (close to Dundee).

Reporting into the Farm Operations Manager, the Farm Operative will be part of the operations team, which is an integral part of our team at the Crop Research Centre (CRC). Your key responsibilities include daily tasks such as cleaning and general housekeeping, maintaining crops in our vertical farm, part of our growing process (sowing, germinating, launching, growing and harvesting), data collection of crops before and after harvest, dealing with our long-term crops and supporting and working alongside our growers and plant science team. Key responsibilities include:

- Responsible for housekeeping and site orderliness.
- Cleaning the tower equipment & fertigation tanks.
- Carrying out and leading deep cleaning operations when required.
- Sowing and growing crops in line with our R&D trials
- Crop Maintenance (cleaning, trimming) ensuring the health of the crops.
- Collecting Data from the trials.
- Substrate preparation and Fertilizer/Nutrients preparation.
- Troubleshooting for our User Interface and providing our Customer Care team with feedback.
- Operating in a safe and sustainable manner.

This represents an incredible opportunity to “give something back” and be part of a culture that believes in genuine teamwork, sustaining excellence, values courageous honesty, wants people to feel good and enjoys seeing their people and the business win. An excellent base salary (to £23-26,000 DOE) is complemented by a comprehensive benefits package, complete with training and self development grants.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £23,000.00-£26,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free parking
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid volunteer time
- Private medical insurance
- Referral programme

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: Farm Operative


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