About the Role:

We have a new full-time and permanent opening for an Assistant Site Manager to work alongside our site Manager in a supporting role taking ownership of running the terminal when it is needed.

This is a busy and hands-on role based at Southampton Docks which will require you to work as part of the team in the yard and be able to turn your hand to all operations. Our ultimate aim is to ensure our facility is running as efficiently as possible and so that we are able to deliver quality nutrient blends for our farmer customers to be able to grow arable cereal crops.

The role will encompass all aspects of our plant operations and working with the team to cover all day to day duties which will include:

        Coordinating ships arrivals and departures.

        Oversee the blending and bagging process from start to finish. 

        Overseeing operations from the control room to run all plant throughput when required.

        Loading finished product by fork-lift onto our own Churchill Freight Services Ltd lorries.

        Helping to supervise, organise, support, and motivate the team. 

We are growing the team following a refit at the site and we are pleased to be able to offer this full-time and permanent vacancy in a company that considers its staff, it's greatest asset.

About Bartholomews:

Leading in our field, developing a sustainable Agri Food Chain. We are a main contributor in the UK agri-foods sector, headquartered in Chichester, West Sussex and operating across the southern counties of England. We are a business built on perpetuity, first established in 1883 and we are continuing to grow and prosper.

We provide a range of agricultural services and essential supplies to the farming community including the sale and marketing of grain, the sale and supply of agricultural seeds, the manufacture and supply of fertilisers, crop protection products, animal feeds, bird-food and game feeds. We also provide technical advisory agronomy service to our farmer customers, and we are engaged in ongoing research and development through our extensive cereal crop trials.

Our facilities include a seed plant and crop research, technology, and multiplication centre near Chichester and our dock-side sites of Shoreham Silos Services Ltd and Ultimate Fertilizers Ltd. We have our own haulage company, Churchill Freight Services Ltd and two further depots in Halisham, West Sussex and Sparkford, Somerset. All these facilities and sites make our company proportionately the best resourced Agrifood business in the United Kingdom.

Our mission and as an Integral part of the food chain, is to connect growers with UK and European consumers, adopting new technologies and always striving for sustainable food security.

Our Core Values:

        Perpetuity - privately owned, always independent & equipped for the future.

        Team - working together & winning together.

        Integrity -Honesty, honour & flexibility everyday.

        Sustainability - working with stakeholders to develop leading solutions with fewer resources.

        Equitable - by offering equal value and terms, we build long-lasting relationships.

About You:

Fork-Lift Truck operation, with a minimum of 1 years' experience and confident with a counterbalance,

Experience of driving a Volvo shovel would be advantageous.

There will be some manual handling as part of the role, demanding a reasonable level of fitness.

Previous similar work experience gained within warehousing, logistics or dock side environment in a supervisory position.

Knowledge of MS office, Excel or equivalent Operations System and confident with working with a control panel.

You will need to be organised, able to run systems and process with attention to detail to ensure processes are maintained.

Good communicator with the ability to lead from the front.

Knowledge of safe systems and work gained from within a similar supervisory role would be advantageous.

To Apply:

Please send us your CV and we would really like a Cover Letter from you, explaining more about why you would like to join us and feel this is the right step for you and how you feel your skills and experiences would suit the role.

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