Canterbury, UK
February 2017 - December 2020
Weystreet Farm is a family run business situated on the outskirts of faverhsam. They grow strawberries from everbearers (prize) to June bearers (Malling Centenary) totallying 15HA producing 300-350 tonnes per season and a vast range of top fruit from pears (conference) and apples (gala, bramley, cox, granny smith, jazz, rockit and braeburn) 80Ha producing 4000-4500 bins per season. supplying M&S mainly, co-op and Lidl.
Duties & Responsibilities:
*training new and old staff for the season as well as setting targets, goals, disciplinary and appraisals
*Tunnel coverings, on and off, plus fleece use.
*Manage and organising gangs for husbandry jobs such as leaf management, truss management and picking gangs for picking soft fruit.
*oragnising and managing gangs for thinning top fruit to the specification for our customers.
*organising and running Top Fruit picking gangs
*assist in the pest, and disease control on the soft & top fruit, liaising with the agronomist and farm owner, discussing options and implementation.
*Organise and assist with the irrigation for both soft & top fruit. Discuss options with independent advisors for products, and rates etc.
*Manage and operate the new 3300 bin CA storage facility. Monitoring the control of CA systems and DCA systems for pro-longing storage life for the top fruit in store. *Winner of Store Operative of the Year 2018.
*Visit to third party packhouse to monitor our fruit being graded.
*Red tractor farm readiness.
*Spraying top & soft fruit. Use of Hardi boom sprayers, and KWH 3 row sprayers.
*Fertilser spreading.
*Mowing.
*Weed killing.
June 2005 - February 2017 - Farm Manager. (222 ha) 2014 - 2017.
FW Mansfields is one of the largest top/soft fruit Business in Kent with a turnover of approx £20million a year. a very diverse Business supplying an unlimited amount of customers.
*managing a team of 10 full time staff to help with the day to day runnings of the farm by delgating jobs such as spraying etc.
*managing 150 pickers at peak season for our Apple harvest.
*keep upto date with records i.e training records and other forms of records with compliance to help the farm pass its audits.
January 2003 - June 2005
REFERENCES
WORK - Bob Little - 07909760380
Personal - Carole Lawrence - 07928479249
D1 license catergory
Sep 1998 - Sep 2005
2 Diplomas in Sports science and Coaching.
Canterbury, UK
February 2017 - December 2020
Weystreet Farm is a family run business situated on the outskirts of faverhsam. They grow strawberries from everbearers (prize) to June bearers (Malling Centenary) totallying 15HA producing 300-350 tonnes per season and a vast range of top fruit from pears (conference) and apples (gala, bramley, cox, granny smith, jazz, rockit and braeburn) 80Ha producing 4000-4500 bins per season. supplying M&S mainly, co-op and Lidl.
Duties & Responsibilities:
*training new and old staff for the season as well as setting targets, goals, disciplinary and appraisals
*Tunnel coverings, on and off, plus fleece use.
*Manage and organising gangs for husbandry jobs such as leaf management, truss management and picking gangs for picking soft fruit.
*oragnising and managing gangs for thinning top fruit to the specification for our customers.
*organising and running Top Fruit picking gangs
*assist in the pest, and disease control on the soft & top fruit, liaising with the agronomist and farm owner, discussing options and implementation.
*Organise and assist with the irrigation for both soft & top fruit. Discuss options with independent advisors for products, and rates etc.
*Manage and operate the new 3300 bin CA storage facility. Monitoring the control of CA systems and DCA systems for pro-longing storage life for the top fruit in store. *Winner of Store Operative of the Year 2018.
*Visit to third party packhouse to monitor our fruit being graded.
*Red tractor farm readiness.
*Spraying top & soft fruit. Use of Hardi boom sprayers, and KWH 3 row sprayers.
*Fertilser spreading.
*Mowing.
*Weed killing.
June 2005 - February 2017 - Farm Manager. (222 ha) 2014 - 2017.
FW Mansfields is one of the largest top/soft fruit Business in Kent with a turnover of approx £20million a year. a very diverse Business supplying an unlimited amount of customers.
*managing a team of 10 full time staff to help with the day to day runnings of the farm by delgating jobs such as spraying etc.
*managing 150 pickers at peak season for our Apple harvest.
*keep upto date with records i.e training records and other forms of records with compliance to help the farm pass its audits.
January 2003 - June 2005
REFERENCES
WORK - Bob Little - 07909760380
Personal - Carole Lawrence - 07928479249
D1 license catergory
Sep 1998 - Sep 2005
2 Diplomas in Sports science and Coaching.