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Production Operative

Job Type : Contract, Full Time

Salary : £8.91 – £10.18/hour + bonus scheme

We are recruiting for Plant Nursery and Forestry Workers on behalf of our prestigious client, Forestry England.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a uniquely natural environment as an important part of the team responsible for growing and grading seeds and tree plants for use in UK forests and across the world.

Typical duties include;

– Lifting seedlings from seedbeds

– Mechanical transplanting

– Netting seedbeds

– Hand-weeding

– Grading trees into different sizes

This work can take place in all weathers and involves outdoor work. You may be working both as part of a team and independently.

Hourly pate rate is £8.91 per hour, rising to £10.18 per hour after 12 weeks. An additional productivity bonus scheme is available. There is also an increased holiday entitlement after 12 weeks.

The nursery has a current annual programme to supply the public forest estate with up to 12 million forest usable trees. A wide range of mainly conifer and some broadleaved species are grown from seed and cuttings to meet this demand. The plant stock is produced both in the open nursery as a bare-root product and also containerised, grown in our poly-tunnel and glasshouse complex. The container nursery also produces up to 1 million rooted cuttings for use on the open nursery.

Acorn Recruitment Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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