Farm Administrator — Hessle
Location: Hessle, East Yorkshire
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Working Pattern: Monday – Friday, 40H / week
About the Role
Cranswick is a leading UK food producer committed to quality, sustainability, and innovation. Due to recent expansion, we are looking for a Farm Administrator to join our Farming Division to provide support to the wider team within our fast-paced business.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily Wold feed ordering – taking calls, placing orders, keeping the check-sheet up to date
- Manage and maintain the feed complaints log
- Monitoring ration switch overs and helping farms manage feed levels
- Assist with Wold Farms weekly stock sheets and chasing up any missing documents on a weekly basis
- Assist with the management of the new Foods Connected system in relation to Wold Farms database and processes.
- Assist with general Wold Farms administrative tasks
- Cover calls & Wold Farm tasks in the absence of other members of the team
- Cover holidays within the team
- Contribute to KPIs in quality, health, safety and environment, yields and customer service
- Highlight areas of improvement
- Ensure that all statutory (industry guidelines), legal, food safety & customer requirements are met
- Understand relevant legislation, internal company policies and procedures, codes of practice and technical specifications relevant to the department
- Uphold good housekeeping and hygiene practices
- Attend required training in line with current legislation, Health and Safety guidelines and changing departmental operations
- Ensure that you understand and adhere to your personal responsibilities with regard the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Environmental Protection Act 1990, Site Environmental Permit, company HSE policies, site safety rules, and procedures at all times
- Carry out activities with full awareness of their impact on the environment, both in terms of people and the local area
- Understand and minimise energy and waste within the department
- Respect and honour the sentiment of the Cranswick ethical policies and codes of conduct when interacting with colleagues
About You
- Has an understanding of systems, processes and procedures
- Understands department requirements
- Delivers quality and accuracy in own work and operates to the correct working standard
- Informs Supervisor of problems or opportunities
- Ensures effective use of own time
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Strives to attain A grade standards
- Sees quality as an integral part of the role
- Performance awareness
- Identifies opportunities for improvement
- Participates in departmental initiatives for change
- Maintain positive and productive relationships with team members and other departments/stakeholders
- Able to talk with knowledge and experience to visitors
- Recognises the teams successes
Pay and Benefits
- Competitive salary depending on experience
- 30 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)
- Enhanced company pension scheme
- Death in service insurance
- 24/7 health and wellbeing support
- Access to the Cranswick discounts platform
- Eligibility for the Cranswick Share Save scheme
- Free on-site parking
- Free gym membership
A full job description is available upon request. Salary to be discussed at interview stage.
To apply, please submit your covering letter and CV to: [email protected]
Closing date 15th of April, 2026. Please note that if a suitable candidate is found, this closing date may be brought forward.