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READ MORECandidates will be responsible for all usual garden jobs, wood cutting/clearing, mowing, hedges etc; maintenance of garden equipment and general maintenance of house/outbuildings.
Knowledge of plants an advantage but not essential. Proficiency in all gardening machinery (mowers, strimmers, chainsaws, sprayers) a requirement and relevant certificates would be helpful.
Full-time position – Monday to Friday
9-4 (October-March); 9-5 (April-September)
Immediate start
Location: near Ellingham, Northumberland
A full time general farm worker/tractor driver is required for a mixed beef, sheep and arable farm near Ellingham, Northumberland.
Ideally you should be a skilled individual with a can do attitude who can work both alone and within a team. The work will primarily be based with store/fat lambs and cattle enterprises, taking on the day-to-day tasks involved with caring for stock and may include tractor work during busy times of the year.
Applicants must have a full UK driver’s license.
JobResponsibilities:
• Feeding and bedding cattle
• Mucking out sheds
• All aspects of getting store lambs ready for sale including dosing, jagging, foot trimming, weighing and grading lambs (Please note there is no lambing involved 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.
Hours:
The typical working week is 08.00 to 17.00 Monday to Friday. Weekends are rotated on a shared basis between other workers while stock is housed during the winter.
Salary is negotiable based on experience. Please note there is no accommodation currently available with this job.
All applications are dealt with in strict confidence, please contact BMR for more information.
Borders Machinery Ring (BMR), the first Ring to be formed in the UK in February 1987 by 23 farmers and contractors. Currently, there are over 1030 members. Turnover is around £10 million.
Essentially a machinery ring “matches a shortage of machinery and/or labour capacity on one farm with a surplus on another.
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