14 Harvesting jobs in the United Kingdom

Major Recruitment are currently seeking an Harvesting Supervisor for our client based in York. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a progressive and fast-paced fresh produce business.

As the Harvesting Supervisor, you will play a vital role in leading and motivating harvesting teams, ensuring high-quality fresh produce picking, efficiency, and continuous improvement in growing house operations.

Assisting the Harvesting Manager manage the harvesting department by ensuring the desired pick rates for the efficient harvesting of the crops, managing the planning and organisation of the houses along with the Pickers & Placers competencies, Supervisor competencies, training and H&S and food safety for the houses.

Responsibilities

• Support the Harvesting Manager in all daily operations and cover in their absence
• Plan and organise team schedules and resources for optimal productivity
• Ensure compliance with hygiene, health & safety, and quality protocols
• Monitor and meet harvesting KPIs: weights, sizes, presentation, stem trimming
• Maintain clean, tidy and safe growing houses - "clean as you go" ethos
• Reduce waste and ensure efficient use of resources
• Coach and monitor pickers' productivity and performance daily
• Provide timely instructions and support to the harvesting team
• Ensure accurate and clear recording of harvesting data
• Identify and respond to quality or process issues quickly
• Maintain effective communication with other departments and agencies
• Train and motivate staff, ensuring high team morale and adherence to best practices
• Attend and contribute to food safety, HACCP, TACCP and VACCP activities
• Review crops and ensure no damage or waste at end of day
• Manage knife usage and compliance with the knife control procedure
• Report disease findings to growers immediately
• Forecast next-day harvesting requirements and resources

Who We're Looking For

We're looking for a motivated and experienced team leader who thrives in a production-led environment. You must have strong people management skills, a sharp eye for quality, and a solution-driven approach. Flexibility is essential, as is the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and customer needs.

Essential Requirements

• Fresh produce picking experience.
• Previous experience at a supervisory level on a fresh prooduce farm.
• Good communication skills & people management skills
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good basic IT & Numerical skills
• Team player

Desirable (Not Essential)

• Advanced Food Hygiene Qualification
• Degree level Education

Hours: Circa 48 hours per week (5/7 days to suit business needs, overtime during peak periods will be required. Weekend work as required)
Salary: 13.50ph
Benefits:

• 28 days holiday per year (including statutory holidays)
• 3% contributory pension scheme after 3 months
• Overtime above 48 hours paid at standard rate
• Paid weekend and bank holiday work
• Flexibility and development opportunities within a dynamic team

INDAC

Major Recruitment are currently seeking an Assistant Harvesting Manager for our fresh produce client based in York.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving, family-run food production business in a hands-on, operational leadership role.

As the Assistant Harvesting Manager, you'll support the Harvesting Manager in all aspects of running the harvesting department - from labour planning and training to quality control, performance management and cross-functional collaboration.

Your role will directly influence pick rates, product quality, team performance, and yield optimisation. You'll be working closely with Harvesting Supervisors, Pickers, and other department managers, bringing leadership, structure, and innovation to daily operations

Responsibilities

• Assist in the overall management of the harvesting department and cover for the Harvesting Manager as needed
• Deliver training, coaching and mentoring to pickers and supervisors to achieve daily pick rate targets
• Monitor crop readiness and coordinate staffing plans to align with yield forecasts
• Maintain high product standards, focusing on weights, sizing, stalk trimming, and punnet presentation
• Manage daily manpower planning, including agency coordination and recruitment planning
• Complete and maintain picker performance sheets and payroll input using Excel
• Ensure timely and effective communication with packhouse, growing, production, and engineering teams
• Participate in morning meetings and proactively plan people, yields, and hours for the following day
• Promote and monitor compliance with food safety, health & safety, and hygiene protocols
• Support the integration of safe systems of work and training plans for new workers
• Drive a strong team culture and ensure effective onboarding and development of new staff
• Investigate and resolve any safety, performance, or equipment-related issues promptly
• Champion continuous improvement and best practices across the department
• Contribute to Food Safety, HACCP, TACCP, and VACCP meetings and actions
• Support GMP and "clean as you go" housekeeping across growing areas
• Identify process improvements and implement solutions to maximise performance and efficiency
• Ensure records and work practices are compliant with FSA, food safety and H&S legislation

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking a proactive and collaborative leader with a background in fresh produce or food manufacturing. You should have a strong focus on quality and people development, be confident in handling operational demands, and committed to continuous improvement.

Essential Requirements

• Fresh produce picking experience.
• Previous experience at a supervisory level in fresh produce farm.
• Good communication skills & people management skills
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good basic IT & Numerical skills
• Team player

Hours: 5 out of 7 days per week (flexibility required including weekends and peak periods)
Salary: 40,000 (full-time, permanent role)
Benefits:

• 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
• Overtime opportunities during peak periods
• Career development in a growing and supportive environment
• Pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Opportunity to influence key aspects of harvesting operations

INDAC

Major Recruitment are currently seeking an Assistant Harvesting Manager for our fresh produce client based in York.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving, family-run food production business in a hands-on, operational leadership role.

As the Assistant Harvesting Manager, you'll support the Harvesting Manager in all aspects of running the harvesting department - from labour planning and training to quality control, performance management and cross-functional collaboration.

Your role will directly influence pick rates, product quality, team performance, and yield optimisation. You'll be working closely with Harvesting Supervisors, Pickers, and other department managers, bringing leadership, structure, and innovation to daily operations

Responsibilities

• Assist in the overall management of the harvesting department and cover for the Harvesting Manager as needed
• Deliver training, coaching and mentoring to pickers and supervisors to achieve daily pick rate targets
• Monitor crop readiness and coordinate staffing plans to align with yield forecasts
• Maintain high product standards, focusing on weights, sizing, stalk trimming, and punnet presentation
• Manage daily manpower planning, including agency coordination and recruitment planning
• Complete and maintain picker performance sheets and payroll input using Excel
• Ensure timely and effective communication with packhouse, growing, production, and engineering teams
• Participate in morning meetings and proactively plan people, yields, and hours for the following day
• Promote and monitor compliance with food safety, health & safety, and hygiene protocols
• Support the integration of safe systems of work and training plans for new workers
• Drive a strong team culture and ensure effective onboarding and development of new staff
• Investigate and resolve any safety, performance, or equipment-related issues promptly
• Champion continuous improvement and best practices across the department
• Contribute to Food Safety, HACCP, TACCP, and VACCP meetings and actions
• Support GMP and "clean as you go" housekeeping across growing areas
• Identify process improvements and implement solutions to maximise performance and efficiency
• Ensure records and work practices are compliant with FSA, food safety and H&S legislation

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking a proactive and collaborative leader with a background in fresh produce or food manufacturing. You should have a strong focus on quality and people development, be confident in handling operational demands, and committed to continuous improvement.

Essential Requirements

• Fresh produce picking experience.
• Previous experience at a supervisory level in fresh produce farm.
• Good communication skills & people management skills
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good basic IT & Numerical skills
• Team player

Hours: 5 out of 7 days per week (flexibility required including weekends and peak periods)
Salary: 40,000 (full-time, permanent role)
Benefits:

• 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
• Overtime opportunities during peak periods
• Career development in a growing and supportive environment
• Pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Opportunity to influence key aspects of harvesting operations

INDAC

Assistant Harvesting Manager

Location: Holme-upon-Spalding Moor, York

Hours: 5 out of 7 days per week (flexibility required including weekends and peak periods)

Salary: Competitive (full-time, permanent role)

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday per year (including bank holidays)
• Overtime opportunities during peak periods
• Career development in a growing and supportive environment
• Pension scheme (subject to eligibility)
• Opportunity to influence key aspects of harvesting operations

The Opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity to join a thriving, family-run food production business in a hands-on, operational leadership role. As the Assistant Harvesting Manager, you’ll support the Harvesting Manager in all aspects of running the harvesting department — from labour planning and training to quality control, performance management and cross-functional collaboration.

Your role will directly influence pick rates, product quality, team performance, and yield optimisation. You’ll be working closely with Harvesting Supervisors, Pickers, and other department managers, bringing leadership, structure, and innovation to daily operations.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the overall management of the harvesting department and cover for the Harvesting Manager as needed
• Deliver training, coaching and mentoring to pickers and supervisors to achieve daily pick rate targets
• Monitor crop readiness and coordinate staffing plans to align with yield forecasts
• Maintain high product standards, focusing on weights, sizing, stalk trimming, and punnet presentation
• Manage daily manpower planning, including agency coordination and recruitment planning
• Complete and maintain picker performance sheets and payroll input using Excel
• Ensure timely and effective communication with packhouse, growing, production, and engineering teams
• Participate in morning meetings and proactively plan people, yields, and hours for the following day
• Promote and monitor compliance with food safety, health & safety, and hygiene protocols
• Support the integration of safe systems of work and training plans for new workers
• Drive a strong team culture and ensure effective onboarding and development of new staff
• Investigate and resolve any safety, performance, or equipment-related issues promptly
• Champion continuous improvement and best practices across the department
• Contribute to Food Safety, HACCP, TACCP, and VACCP meetings and actions
• Support GMP and “clean as you go” housekeeping across growing areas
• Identify process improvements and implement solutions to maximise performance and efficiency
• Ensure records and work practices are compliant with FSA, food safety and H&S legislation

Who We're Looking For

We're seeking a proactive and collaborative leader with a background in fresh produce or food manufacturing. You should have a strong focus on quality and people development, be confident in handling operational demands, and committed to continuous improvement.

Essential Requirements

• Fresh produce picking experience.
• Previous experience at a supervisory level on a Fresh Produce farm.
• Good communication skills & people management skills
• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Good basic IT & Numerical skills
• Team player

Desirable (Not Essential)

• Previous experience as a Harvesting Manager in fresh produce industry.
• Advanced Food Hygiene Qualification.
• Degree level Education.

For more information, please contact Travis Townsend at Major Recruitment on 07771 707579 or

Job Title: Interviewers

Location: Greater Manchester

Duration: Very flexible working hours (full time or part time)


Role Summary:

You will be required to take a pre prepared set of questions from chosen households by the client (no cold calling). The aim is to track a travel study dairy on people’s behaviour to bid for capital funding on how to change travel behaviour for new Bus routes/roads for new fundings to improve issues within the community.

You will be given a bunch of specific households you will need to attend within around Greater Manchester therefore, very flexible working hours are permitted to taylor what works for the household members and employees.

The work is split into sample points. Each sample point has 10 addresses. Interviewers are expected to go to each address at least 4 times before its classed as a non-contact. On average interviewers get an interview at 4-6 of the addresses.

The job is based round districts in Greater Manchester. Each month we allocate between 3 and 6 sample points per district. Addresses can be anywhere in the district – we do try to cluster them as much as possible but they are very rarely in the same street etc so a car is needed to get from one to the next.

The pay is structured as follows:
- £65 per sample point (for attempting all 10 addresses regardless of outcome)
- Pay per interview completed (this is on a sliding scale starting at £ for a one person Household up to 5 for an 8 person Household)
- Mileage is paid but not travel time
- Bonus for meeting targets (targets are just getting a spread of day of week – need week day and weekend interviews)
- £1 an hour for any training/ briefing sessions etc

So pay varies – some months interviewers can be really successful others less so but the pay structure means they are never out of pocket. Most of our current interviewers have been working on the project for over 5 years so it must be worth it.

If you assume an average household size is 2.2 and they had 3 sample points earnings would be around £4 It takes about 5 days to do 3 sample points (but they don’t do the 5 days in one chunk)


Background Experience:

Door to door sales

community engagement

Ideal candidate for example could be someone semi-retired or a University Student that might be looking for part time work who has experience within sales, worked within a call centre or done charity work.

Driver’s License is a required essential (expenses per mileage paid)

Job Title: Interviewers

Location: Greater Manchester

Duration: Very flexible working hours (full time or part time)


Role Summary:

You will be required to take a pre prepared set of questions from chosen households by the client (no cold calling). The aim is to track a travel study dairy on people’s behaviour to bid for capital funding on how to change travel behaviour for new Bus routes/roads for new fundings to improve issues within the community.

You will be given a bunch of specific households you will need to attend within around Greater Manchester therefore, very flexible working hours are permitted to taylor what works for the household members and employees.

The work is split into sample points. Each sample point has 10 addresses. Interviewers are expected to go to each address at least 4 times before its classed as a non-contact. On average interviewers get an interview at 4-6 of the addresses.

The job is based round districts in Greater Manchester. Each month we allocate between 3 and 6 sample points per district. Addresses can be anywhere in the district – we do try to cluster them as much as possible but they are very rarely in the same street etc so a car is needed to get from one to the next.

The pay is structured as follows:
- £65 per sample point (for attempting all 10 addresses regardless of outcome)
- Pay per interview completed (this is on a sliding scale starting at £ for a one person Household up to 5 for an 8 person Household)
- Mileage is paid but not travel time
- Bonus for meeting targets (targets are just getting a spread of day of week – need week day and weekend interviews)
- £1 an hour for any training/ briefing sessions etc

So pay varies – some months interviewers can be really successful others less so but the pay structure means they are never out of pocket. Most of our current interviewers have been working on the project for over 5 years so it must be worth it.

If you assume an average household size is 2.2 and they had 3 sample points earnings would be around £4 It takes about 5 days to do 3 sample points (but they don’t do the 5 days in one chunk)


Background Experience:

Door to door sales

community engagement

Ideal candidate for example could be someone semi-retired or a University Student that might be looking for part time work who has experience within sales, worked within a call centre or done charity work.

Driver’s License is a required essential (expenses per mileage paid)

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled farm worker to join our team. The ideal candidate will be helping with general farm tasks as well as spraying work as required.

Qualified and Experienced Spray Operator is required.

Work in the Crowland Area.

If you are passionate about working outdoors and possess the skills needed for this position, we encourage you to apply.

We are seeking a dedicated and skilled farm worker to join our team. The ideal candidate will be helping with general farm tasks as well as spraying work as required.

Qualified and Experienced Spray Operator is required.

Work in the Crowland Area.

If you are passionate about working outdoors and possess the skills needed for this position, we encourage you to apply.

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