Growing Manager - Bristol - Competitive salary + Benefits

Growing Manager - Bristol - Competitive Salary + Benefits

The Job: An established horticultural business is seeking an experienced Growing Manager to deliver targeted yields while maximising crop quality across site operations. This is a senior, hands on role with responsibility for crop performance, operational leadership, compliance, and team development, ensuring production aligns with commercial and customer requirements.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing crop performance, yield, quality, and timing across the site
• Maintaining and adjusting growing blueprints and watering plans
• Monitoring and optimising climate control systems to maximise efficiency
• Recording and analysing daily climate conditions in each growing area
• Leading Growing, Operations, and Disease Control teams
• Overseeing rotas, holidays, daily workloads, and supply sourcing
• Ensuring high standards of hygiene, health & safety, and biosecurity
• Maintaining audit readiness and compliance with SOPs
• Working closely with site leadership to deliver accurate production forecasts
• Aligning crop output with harvesting and sales requirements
• Recruiting, training, mentoring, and developing growers and operational staff

The Company: A well established and forward thinking agricultural producer operating to high ethical, safety and sustainability standards. The business has a strong long term vision, values led culture and a commitment to continuous improvement across all operations.

The Candidate:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a growing or crop production environment
• Proven supervisory or team leadership experience
• Strong people management and coaching skills
• Commercially aware with the ability to influence outcomes
• Organised, adaptable, and capable of managing multiple priorities
• Confident communicator with strong problem solving ability
• Computer literate
• Fluent spoken and written English
• Willingness to travel occasionally to other sites
• Experience in harvesting and compost operations
• Experience leading teams from diverse cultural backgrounds

The Package:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• Comprehensive benefits package
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Supportive, values driven working environment

Please email your CV to Liam Davis, Senior Delivery Recruitment Consultant, .