Head Grower Hydroponic Greenhouse
The Enterprise:
Eden Farms is a loved ones-owned pioneering hydroponic operation, escalating a sizeable proportion of Australia’s Continental Cucumber and Toddler Cucumber provide. Located in the Wide Bay-Burnett region of Queensland, the city of Bundaberg is house to the two farms that collectively make up Eden Farms.
The Position:
We are searching for an enthusiastic Head Grower to be a part of our farm leadership staff and be accountable for in excess of 8 hectares of Hydroponic Greenhouse developing cucumbers. This placement will manage all areas of the crop generation with the goal of maximizing yields and setting up a collaborative partnership with our crop care employees and external provider providers. The Head Grower manages and prospects a staff members of crop supervisors, picking teams and crop personnel engaged in the increasing, care and upkeep of the Company’s Little one and Continental Cucumbers that are generated for Supermarket and wholesale consumers through Australia.
Places of Responsibility:
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- Build crop strategies which include seedling and transplanting schedules
- Monitor expanding problems and oversee changes in humidity, moisture and temperature and cultivation methods to ensure conformance with quality management criteria.
- Take ownership of greenhouse management methods and provide oversight (PRIVA)
- Keep an eye on plant and fruit enhancement to determine ailments this kind of as leaf texture, size and the existence of pests or disease getting rid of substandard or diseased crops to preserve high-quality criteria.
- Identify costs of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and fungicides as needed by the crops and utilize and/or direct the application of them.
- Sustain stock of escalating supplies this sort of as fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides.
- Routine employees and assigns do the job maintains staff data and delivers input into efficiency evaluations.
- Prepare staff members in increasing tactics and routines.
- Manage a clear and healthier function surroundings for the crop and staff members
- Insure timely sanitation & servicing of greenhouse amenities
- Engagement inside of our food items basic safety method
- Evaluation of analysis and funds assignments
- Forecast and control the unpredicted
- Help the Typical Manager with other duties as assigned














Demands:
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- Minimal 3-year degree in a relevant field to agriculture (crop science and so on.) or 3 additionally many years of experience in a equivalent industry.
- Immediate experience in Horticulture, commercial greenhouse encounter preferred, but not vital.
- Encounter taking care of plant fertility, pest and disorder.
- Laptop literate and knowledge in greenhouse manage systems
- Experience managing folks and nicely structured
- Strong verbal, written and conversation techniques
- Ability to deal with a variable perform agenda all-around the crop desires
- Capacity to read through and interpret paperwork these kinds of as basic safety principles, working and maintenance directions, and course of action manuals.
- Means to publish plan studies and correspondence.









Perfect Prospect:
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- Enjoys the challenges in developing
- Self-inspired to frequently make improvements to and add worth
- Means to troubleshoot and present alternatives
- Means to program in advance and predict issues by being observant to the tiny factors that make a major distinction
- Wish to be on their toes, producing an impact to the balanced plant expansion
- Enjoys performing with people today and remaining portion of a long-expression nutritious society






You should post your address letter and resume to Jeremy Browne (Basic Supervisor) at supervisor@edenfarms.com.au
