The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Area Coordinator
Location: Staffordshire, UK
Contract: 15 months fixed term contract, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is essential, with early morning starts and occasional late finishes
Salary: £24,753.08 + Van + Fuel Card / Allowance
Are you interested in agriculture and collecting information to help dairy farmers with their herd management? Are you skilled at managing your time and working alone? Do you have a positive attitude and attention to detail? If the answer to the above is YES – then this could be the role for you!
The Area Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of a full milk recording service in a defined area as allocated by the Senior Area Service Manager. This involves monthly visits to farms within the Staffordshire and Derbyshire area, collecting event data about individual cows and updating the NMR database.
It can also involve taking milk samples from each cow as they are milked as and when required. The role may also involve supporting and providing the robot shuttle hire service in terms of organising, transporting, setting up, taking down, cleaning, and storage of robot shuttles, holiday cover, and box deliveries/collections.
Key Responsibilities:
* Home based but covering a wide area of farms, which could involve extensive driving.
* Responsible for data collection and entry into a custom-built software package
* Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
* Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
* Transport sample boxes/shuttles
* Complete NMR robot shuttle recording if required.
* Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.
About you:
* Time management skills
* Self-motivated
* Ability to work effectively within a team and add value.
* Great attention to detail ensuring accuracy in work produced.
* Fully PC literate
* Milk recording and/or practical dairy farming experience - desirable
Additional Information:
* A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
* Able to work early mornings when required.
We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
AB Agri is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to making our recruitment process inclusive and accessible to all.
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