General Farm Assistant

We're recruiting for a General Farm Assistant for a farm in Essex, CM5.

The exciting and varied role has been created for someone to become a key team member at a progressive mixed-farming business in Essex between Ongar and Chelmsford.

They grow over 300 ha of combinable crops and offer further contract farming services, including umbilical slurry/digestate application.

They also have a 600-sow indoor unit with progeny, finished on the same site and another site in East Anglia.

The business also has a few diversifications: food manufacturing, renewables, property, woodland, and countryside stewardship.

Job description:

• Tractor driving - mucking out, hedgecutting, slurry pump work, and some arable operations at peak times
• Grounds maintenance - cutting grass, cutting hedges, strimming, pressure washing, painting ...