Production Operative - Cambridge, United Kingdom - First Call Contract Services Limited

First Call Contract Services Limited
First Call Contract Services Limited
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Cambridge, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Production Operative

Field / Technical Role

Ongoing Contract


First Call Contract Services are currently recruiting for a number of Production Operatives for our clients busy growing, potting and crop facility based in Cambridge, CB2.

This role is being recruited for on an ongoing basis and has immediate interviews and starts available.


_ Operations Technician Role Summary:
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  • To support the nursery team in the delivery of field and seed processing operations for cereals breeding programmes
  • To support goals for efficiency, timeliness, and quality in all operations
  • To undertake a wide range of tasks in scope of the operations team from growing plants in glasshouses, crossing, seed preparation for nurseries and trials, field recording and harvesting

_Operations Technician Main Responsibilities:
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To assist in the preparation and delivery of all activities in scope of the nurseries team including:

Seed Processing

  • Threshing, cleaning, counting, weighing, treating, casetting and racking of seed for nurseries and trials
  • Preparation and dispatch of seed shipments

Glasshouse

  • Sowing, potting, irrigating and spraying plants as required by the cereals breeding programmes

Field Activity

  • Sowing, labelling, preparation of field books, inseason scoring for a variety of attributes, tissue sampling, crossing, and harvesting

Warehouse

  • Ensure boxes of material are dried and conditioned to stakeholders' requirements
  • Ensure boxes of material are tracked and logged in the warehouse
  • Ensure material can be easily identified and located as and when required
  • Make boxes of material readily available for colleagues as and when required
  • Ensure good housekeeping and monitoring of site resources


A basic understanding of plants is desirable, experience of working within a small team, experience of working with tight and changing deadlines, ability to use MS Office, especially Outlook, Access and Excel, and other standard software.

Hours of work are Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm.

Starting salary is £11.50 per hour.
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