Irrigationist

The Irrigationist is responsible for overseeing the use of water resources to maintain soil/substrate health, and crops to maximise the growing of all crops and fruit yield/produced.
The Irrigationist will develop, implement, and manage water budgets, create irrigation schedules, measure water usage and monitor plant health in consultation with the Technical Manager.
The Irrigationist is responsible for ensuring that their team and the wider business operates safely and in line with any compliance frameworks, and trains and develops technicians to ensure they successfully manage their tasks. This will require assistants to build and develop their skills and work towards organisational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for the development and implementation of all irrigation and irrigation related programs
- Responsible for scheduling all the fertiliser and chemical injection settings.
- Ensure the hydraulic parameters are suitable for the irrigation scheme.
- Responsible for all irrigation installations and maintenance.
- Oversee and maintain all irrigation infrastructure including pumping systems In conjunction with the technical team ensure timely decisions are made about climate and tunnel management and ensure these are communicated to the operations team
- Support the development of the internal propagation capacity and ensure plant material in line with quality and cost specifications.
- Ensure each crop is walked at least daily to ensure timely changes to the irrigation programs.
- Identify and report issue areas to the wider team to ensure timely corrections.
- Schedule irrigation in line with the irrigation plan
- Record water and fertiliser use and report on for each crop type.
- Perform daily water quality checks and record results.
- Complete accurate and detailed crop blueprints for each crop type.
- Ensure the technical team always operates in a safe way and lead improvements in managing key risk areas.
- Attend the weekly technical meeting by helping to set clear priorities for each crop system and field to ensure engagement and understanding across the technical and operational teams.
- Enable collection and analysis of key technical data and timely reporting for the technical team reporting relevant information to coworkers when required.