General Farm Worker and Egg Production Apprentice

What you’ll do at work

• Working with laying birds, checking husbandry and health and completing a small number of records
• Using an egg packing machine and sorting out second quality eggs and cleaning down the egg packing area
• Work is often as part of a small team of two or three on tasks at the farm to include repairs to equipment, range checks and fencing, groundworks, tidying, cleaning of vehicles and collecting data such as meter reads, images or samples for SFI or Countryside Stewardship
• Tractor work and potential loader work as experience and training develops on our arable enterprises and on general tasks
• This is a varied role for a motivated person interested in learning about free range egg production and care of hens but also wishing to gain wider skills and experience relating to general farm and arable tasks. Tractor and tele handler training and arable tasks will be introduced according to experience. There is routine work with the laying enterprise, to include hen husbandry and egg packing and a variety of other activities depending on the time of year

Where you’ll work

EUDON BURNELL FARM, EUDON BURNELL, BRIDGNORTH, WV16 6UD

Desired qualifications

• GCSE Maths and English (Grade 4 or above) desirable

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Attention to detail
• Team working
• Initiative
• Physical fitness
• Ability to work on own
• Care for animal welfare
• Punctual and reliable

Other requirements

There is no public transport to the role so the applicant will need their own transport.

After this apprenticeship

It is unknown at present whether further work will be available but this may be the case. If no permanent opportunity then the employer will be willing to assist with a CV and support with applications for positions, potentially through own networks.

About this company

E&S Clarke were established in 2012 but the family has farmed at Eudon Burnell since 1961, initially mixed dairying and arable moving to egg production using own milled feeds and arable in 1998. The farm has free range laying hens with approximately 127Ha of arable area owned and tenanted plus 60Ha farmed in a CFA . Crops grown are Oats, Field Beans, OSR and Wheat. Land is managed sensitively with 25Ha permanent grassland, established woodlands, hedges and legume rich swards present and is currently in Mid Tier CSS and SFI.