Growing Manager – Bristol – Competitive Salary + Benefits
The Job: An established horticultural business is seeking an experienced Growing Manager to deliver targeted yields while maximising crop quality across site operations. This is a senior, hands‑on role with responsibility for crop performance, operational leadership, compliance, and team development, ensuring production aligns with commercial and customer requirements.
Key responsibilities include:
* Managing crop performance, yield, quality, and timing across the site
* Maintaining and adjusting growing blueprints and watering plans
* Monitoring and optimising climate control systems to maximise efficiency
* Recording and analysing daily climate conditions in each growing area
* Leading Growing, Operations, and Disease Control teams
* Overseeing rotas, holidays, daily workloads, and supply sourcing
* Ensuring high standards of hygiene, health & safety, and biosecurity
* Maintaining audit readiness and compliance with SOPs
* Working closely with site leadership to deliver accurate production forecasts
* Aligning crop output with harvesting and sales requirements
* Recruiting, training, mentoring, and developing growers and operational staff
The Company: A well established and forward‑thinking agricultural producer operating to high ethical, safety and sustainability standards. The business has a strong long‑term vision, values‑led culture and a commitment to continuous improvement across all operations.
The Candidate:
* Minimum 3 years’ experience in a growing or crop production environment
* Proven supervisory or team leadership experience
* Strong people‑management and coaching skills
* Commercially aware with the ability to influence outcomes
* Organised, adaptable, and capable of managing multiple priorities
* Confident communicator with strong problem‑solving ability
* Computer literate
* Fluent spoken and written English
* Willingness to travel occasionally to other sites
* Experience in harvesting and compost operations
* Experience leading teams from diverse cultural backgrounds
The Package:
* Competitive salary, dependent on experience
* Comprehensive benefits package
* Ongoing training and professional development
* Supportive, values‑driven working environment
Please email your CV to Liam Davis, Senior Delivery Recruitment Consultant, LDavis@agriRS.co.uk.
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