Location
Reading
Vacancy Type
Contract
K1195

Job Description

Job Title: Horticultural Technician for the International Cocoa Quarantine Centre

Location: Arborfield, RG2

Hourly Rate: £17.26ph to £21.60ph – depending on experience - via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35)

Employment Type: Contract – initially approx. 18 months (likely on-going)

Start Date: ASAP

Hours: Standard 36 Hours Per Week - Weekend duty (one weekend in four; typically 2 hours per day)

Reference: K1195

Purpose

The International Cocoa Quarantine Centre at the University of Reading is a unique facility that has a vital role in the cocoa sector of providing a hub for the safe movement of cocoa planting materials to researchers, crop breeders and growers. The postholder will work as part of a small team responsible for the day-to-day running of the ICQC,R greenhouse facility located at Arborfield.

 

Team Structure

The ICQC,R is part of a larger programme of cocoa research and is responsible for the day-to-day management of the ICQC,R.

 

Main duties and responsibilities

  • General maintenance of plants and greenhouse facilities
  • Inspecting plants for pests and diseases; pest control through application of biological control
  • Monitoring, maintaining and calibrating of automatic irrigation system; making up nutrient stocks solutions.
  • Inspecting plants under quarantine for viral and other disease symptoms
  • Plant propagation
  • Co-organising exports of plant material
  • Attendance of a Quarantine Advisory Committee twice per year
  • Weekend duty (one weekend in four; typically 2 hours per day)

 

Additional Information

  • H&S risks - Heat stress, loan working
  • Horticulture weekly for adverts
  • Previous glass house / polytunnel work – garden center, strawberry production, tomato production – good plant husbandry skills, on job training provided
  • No specific quals, horticultural college would be good but job experience, is most important

 

Supervision received

The postholder will receive appropriate training upon starting the post

This role is INSIDE IR35

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