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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.
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:
* Manage Carbon Auditing of our suppliers.
* Manage and report on new potato varieties and trial variety plots.
* Uphold supplier compliance with accreditations required by both our fresh and processing customers.
* Manage 3rd party storage programs for both fresh and processing crops, including store intake, quality, temperature regime, sprout suppression, and trial work.
* Quality sampling and reporting on both fresh and processing crops (ex field and ex store).
* Assist the Head of Farming with own growing accreditation audits.
* Source, manage, and help coordinate seed supply to both contracted fresh and processing suppliers.
* 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:
* Competitive Salary
* NEST Pension Scheme
* Annual Leave - 31 days (including bank holidays)
* Long service awards
* Free parking
* Ride to Work Scheme
The Successful Applicant:
This 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.
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