Integrated Pest Management Scout

Description

Pest management is vital to keep our crops happy and healthy and to minimise risk of pests and disease in the Greenhouse to maximise crop quality and yields

Main Duties

• Daily monitoring and scouting of pest and disease in the Greenhouse with the aim of early detection and identification.
• Distribution of insect traps to monitor number of pests.
• Reporting on insect traps, counting pests and changing cards weekly.
• Monitoring allocation of cards.
• Inspect plants for pests between card checks.
• Inspect plants for virus symptoms and report any issues to growing team.
• Distribution of bio in line with instruction from the grower manager.
• Work alongside Growing team to compile pest and disease infestation trend per greenhouse.
• Recording of plant measurements per greenhouse.
• Data input on App.

Health & Safety:

• Ensure that all work carried out is completed with the full awareness of you and your colleagues Health and Safety.
• Ensure all duties are carried out in accordance with Health & Safety regulations as given in company Risk Assessments/company standards.
• Ensure that the product meet safety, legal and quality requirements.
• Always adhering to safe use of equipment.

Quality Management:

• Improve quality of crop grown through detection and prevention of pests and disease.

Communication:

• Ensure consistent and constructive communication with growing team, reporting and escalating any issues.
• Reporting to growing team on findings relating to pest and disease.

General:

• Carry out any other reasonable task(s) requested by your line manager or the Company.

Values and Behaviours:

Ownership

• Take ownership of the work that you do and understand how it adds to the success of the GHG.
• Be responsible, accountable, ready to take on a challenge and when you don’t know, find out!
• Take initiative, be proactive and deliver what you say will, because you can.
• Explore new opportunities.
• See it, say it, voice it!

Energy

• Energy is contagious, be positive!
• Make greener choices, from the greenhouse to the office and everything in between.
• Lead by example
• Celebrate wins, big or small.
• Always be yourself.

Cultivate

• Listen to others and welcome their perspectives.
• Respect, motivate, support, and encourage your teammates - root for each other and be kind.
• Be transparent and communicate clearly.
• Coach one another, reflect, learn, and grow.
• Be flexible and open to change.

Action

• Make things happen.
• Pay attention to the details.
• One team, one mission, joint success
• You can do it!
• Focus on the main thing.

Excellence

• Ensure safety is at the forefront of all that we do.
• Quality…meet our standards.
• Know when to tailor your approach… work: systematically, work: commercially, work: creatively.
• Deliver high standards for yourself, your team, and your customers.
• Process excellence- work smart.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Agricultural experience/education (Desirable)
Flexible approach (Essential)
Tomato/Cucumber greenhouse experience (Desirable)
Knowledge of the crop, disease and pests (Essential)
Initiative (Essential)
Independent (Essential)
Attention to detail (Essential)
Target driven (Essential)
Team player (Essential)
Excellent written & verbal communication skills (Essential)
Initiates action and takes responsibility (Essential)
Proficient with Microsoft Office; Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint (Desirable)

About The Green House Growers

Hello, we’re the Green House Growers! We’ve been growing fresh food since 1977, beginning as a small family business with just over 1ha of tomatoes. Now we have 48ha across our nurseries in Sussex, Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire. Over the years we’ve become known for the best quality and for pioneering sustainability.
Our team has over 300 years of combined experience in growing the best tasting, freshest food. We’ve always been at the forefront of reducing environmental impact, whether that is using bumblebees for production or taking care of every drop of water we use. Most recently at our nurseries in Norwich and Ely, we’ve become one of the first growers to use waste heat from water treatment plants and reservoirs, reducing our carbon footprint by up to 60%.
We now account for nearly 20% of tomatoes and 25% cucumbers grown in the UK!