Area Coordinator – Bucks, Oxon, Northamptonshire

Job title:

Area Coordinator – Bucks, Oxon, Northamptonshire

Company

AB Agri

Job description

The Role & Key ResponsibilitiesJob Title: Area CoordinatorLocation: Oxfordshire / Northamptonshire / BuckinghamshireContract: Permanent, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is essential, with early morning starts and occasional late finishesSalary: Competitive + Van + Fuel CardAre you interested in dairy farming and data accuracy?Are you skilled at managing your time and working alone?Do you have a positive attitude and attention to detail?If the answer to the above is YES – then this could be the role for you!The Area Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of a full milk recording service in a defined area as allocated by their Area Service Manager. This involves monthly visits to farms within the Oxfordshire/ Northamptonshire or Buckinghamshire area, collecting event data about individual cows and updating the NMR database.It can also involve taking milk samples from each cow as they are milked as and when required. The role may also involve supporting and providing the robot shuttle hire service in terms of organising, transporting, setting up, taking down, cleaning, and storage of robot shuttles, holiday cover, and box deliveries/collections.Key Responsibilities:

• Home based but covering a wide area of farms, which could involve extensive driving.
• Responsible for data collection and entry into a custom-built software package
• Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
• Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
• Transport sample boxes/shuttles
• Complete NMR robot shuttle recording if required.
• Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.

About you:

• Time management skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work effectively within a team and add value.
• Great attention to detail ensuring accuracy in work produced.
• Fully PC literate
• Milk recording and/or practical dairy farming experience – desirable

Additional Information:

• A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
• Able to work early mornings when required

Skills & ExperienceNot SpecifiedAbout The CompanyDecoding milk data, building robust insights.When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.About usWe’re National Mil Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.Application NotesWe hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.Agencies and media salesAB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.

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Location

Northamptonshire

Job date

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 22:15:53 GMT

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