JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Office based Administrative Assistant required for Estate based in the Scottish Borders, working 2 -3 days per week with flexibility for additional hours.

The role involves:

• General office management and administration
• Assistance with invoice processing
• Assistance with maintaining livestock records using livestock management software
• Assistance with record keeping and auditing of Riddell Farms organic status

Key skills, capabilities and experience:

Required:

• A strong understanding of agriculture
• A good working knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ability to work independently as well as part of the wider estate team

Preferred:

• Understanding of Xero Accounting software
• Familiarity with Scottish Government department of Agriculture reporting and returns
• Experience of working in an SME business
• Experience of working in a high compliance and regulatory environment
• Awareness of charity administration and reporting requirements
• Ability to work with suppliers and contractors

Terms and conditions to be agreed.

Farm in Haddington urgently looking for skilled tractor drivers
Full time hours or temporary work available

A full time Farm Worker is required for a mixed family farm near Cornhill.

Duties include:
• All aspects of arable and grassland work
• Farm machinery maintenance & repairs  
• General estate maintenance; fencing, hedge cutting & drainage work
• Assist with cattle work when required; feeding, bedding & mucking out

Requirements:  
• Previous farming experience essential
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Can do attitude

Advantageous but not essential:
• HGV Class 1 Licence
• PA1/PA2 spraying certificates

Wage dependent on experience.
Opportunity for progression for the right candidate.
No accommodation available at present.

Bedmax, the UK’s leading equine and animal bedding manufacturer, is looking to recruit a Development and Maintenance Engineer for its site at Greymare, Belford.

This is a fulfilling, hands-on and varied role for someone who is technically minded, curious and enjoys making a difference. A problem solving attitude is essential.

The plant is a continuous process that does not like to stop and you would be essential in sustaining this. Electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, mechanical and electronic processes are all involved but not all these skills are essential to begin with; however, you will need to become familiar with them all over time.

You will need a commitment to Health & Safety and the ability to use a simple system to add on and draw off tasks. This is a full time job with a competitive salary depending on experience.

Due to growth, we are looking to employ a full-time general farm worker/tractor driver for a mixed beef, sheep and arable farm near Ellingham, Northumberland.

We are looking for a skilled individual with a can-do attitude, who can work both alone and within a team. Work will primarily be based with store/fat lambs and a cattle enterprise, taking on the day-to-day tasks involved with caring for the stock, but may include tractor work during busy times of the year.

Applicants must have full UK driver's license.

Job Responsibilities:
• Feeding and bedding cattle
• Mucking out sheds
• All aspects of getting store lambs ready for sale as fat, including dosing, jagging, foot trimming, weighing and grading lambs. (Please note there is no lambing to do within this role.)
• Tractor aspects may include leading corn, bales, muck, and moving stock between sites, help with silage etc

Full in-house training will be provided on all the above and any external training where necessary. The typical working week is 0800-1700 Monday to Friday. Weekends are rotated on a shared basis between other workers whilst stock are housed during the winter.

Salary is negotiable based on experience. Please note there is no accommodation currently available with this job.

Experienced GFW required to join a dedicated team on farm near Duns.

Must be motivated, diligent, and reliable. Duties will include day-to-day stock work and tractor work, with every 3rd weekend on.

The farm has a pig enterprise with 350 sows and is looking to expand arable contracting business in SE Scotland. Stock experience would be an advantage whilst with pig not essential as pig training will be applied on farm.

The company has an ongoing training program for all employees and is fully compliant in all health and safety awareness programmes.

The farm is a 15-minute drive from the centre of Duns. Attractive package for the right candidate.

We have a number of members who occasionally require help with sheep work. Good dogs an advantage

If you are travelling at present or are planning a trip in the next year, let us know if you are looking for stock work or a harvest job.

Send us your CV

Experience Essential.

Labour positions always available. Builders, fencers, tractor drivers and stockmen etc. Recruiting now for spring work, lambing, calving and harvest.