Crop Production Specialist
2 days ago
Norwich
The Company Our client is a forward-thinking agricultural research organisation dedicated to advancing crop production through innovation, technology, and sustainable farming practices. With a strong focus on trial work, knowledge exchange, and supporting UK growers, they offer a collaborative and hands-on environment where you can develop your technical and field-based expertise. What You Will Be Doing As a Crop Production Specialist, you will play a key role in supporting a range of field and on-farm trials across the East of England. Your responsibilities will include: • Setting up, monitoring, and assessing on-farm and strip trials, • Assisting with tractor and harvester operations when required, • Conducting crop phenotyping using handheld and drone-based methods, • Carrying out greenhouse gas measurements and helping develop protocols, • Completing soil health assessments and coordinating sample testing, • Preparing trial data for analysis and supporting trial report collation, • Maintaining field and research equipment, ensuring SOPs are up to date, • Working closely with research, crop production, and field teams to deliver high-quality assessments and data This role involves regular travel and outdoor work in varying weather conditions. What You Need • A strong understanding of UK agriculture, • Full UK driving licence, • Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office, • Strong communication, organisation, and problem-solving abilities, • High attention to detail, • Ability to work independently as well as part of a wider team, • Willingness to undertake physical, hands-on work in the field Desirable: • A degree in a relevant scientific discipline, • Experience operating farm machinery, particularly with precision guidance systems What Is In It for You • Salary circa £30,000 depending on experience, • Comprehensive training and professional development, • Competitive pension scheme, • Private healthcare, • Employee assistance programme, • Retail discounts and employee benefits The opportunity to join a friendly, supportive, and forward-thinking organisation making a real impact in UK crop production How to Apply If you have trials, environmental or crop production experience then I want to speak with you. Feel free to reach out on the below details for an informal conversation. Rachel Richardson - / Or connect with me on LinkedIn No need for a polished CV, just send over what you have and we can take it from there.