Working for Apsley Farms

Apsley Farms are very lucky to have an exceptional team producing renewable energy. At the start of our project in 2011 we had one employee, and now have a team of over fifty full time staff involved in keeping our plant fed! We have eight members of staff who look after the running of the plant 24/7, they work twelve hour shifts, including nights and alternate weekends.

The farming operation flexes up to ten people to cover not only the harvesting and spreading of digestate on our farm but also other farms who we have contracts with. Our harvesting is made up of two forager drivers, six trailer drivers and a manager.

All electrical and programming is achieved in house by six highly skilled operatives who will often be faced with daily challenges in the running of the plant. Having an in-house team allows us to create code on site, fix bugs and identify faults more efficiently. We have also built our own web portal allowing better insights into time tracking, fuel monitoring, gps tracking, weighbridge data, health and safety and asset management.

The maintenance department are very busy as they go about being as proactive as possible, fixing or repairing and occasionally creating when they have time. With a new heated workshop encouraging a productive environment, and regularly updated confined spaces certificates they are ready for any task.

Haulage is undertaken using seven of the new gen Scania R450 tractor units. We have a variety of trailers including Knapen walking floors which are normally loaded using one of two Liebherr diggers in 7 minutes. 30m3 Vacuum tankers, CO2 tankers, a grain trailer and a Low loader With 13 Class 1 or C+E HGV drivers in the team and 7 of them with a full ADR ticket, the team are use to jumping between the jobs to fulfil the yearly swings in activity

The accounts team are well established, and have developed powerful systems enabling the company to easily monitor financial performance and price variances, from year to year, helping us to check invoices for errors as they occur.

The engineers have mastered the way we are able to maximise the capital available and deliver a great retention time in our digesters, whilst making sure each bug is happy and warm!

The mulch sales department have their own office enabling superb advice to be given on all gardening related questions. Sales pitches are legendary! “I can make you look like a gardening god in 20 minutes by using our mulch”! They manage a team of delivery drivers with their Iveco vans and trusty cranes, who hope to get a glowing review on Google with their name on it. All this whilst doing their best to deliver each bag to exactly where the customer wants it.
The business development oversee our operational Health and Safety Policy, ISO accreditation and present and future strategy.

Marketing create the content for the various social media platforms, making photographs say a thousand words!

If you would like to join our company, please drop us a note, we will endeavour to respond if we feel you might be a suitable fit. The jobs advertised below are currently the ones we are particularly looking for at the moment.

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We have some vacancies at the moment.

An Assistant Engineer/ or Graduate Engineer
You must be good with CAD, interested with fluid and gas transporting, able to design structures, more info to follow.
Salary based on experience

We are looking for another Siemens specialist programmer, you must be good with step 7 and TIA portal and have many years of experience in programming and fault finding etc.
Salary based on experience

We are looking for another Full Stack web developer to add to our team, we run an in house dashboard based around React, Django, javascript and python. these programming languages would be key for the job. The dashboard is getting larger with KPI’s, and other key business modules that we develop in house to keep our team and business working optimal, and this person will need to be able to grasp the thoughts of anyone in the business and make it a reality, from GPS tracking , through to timesheets, and accounts. There’s lots to help make us more efficient.
Salary based on experience

We are looking for a CO2 Sales Manager to help grow our business, you should have experience in this type of role already. As a leading manufacturer of sustainable CO2 for the past 5 years, we have recently gone independent and have our own testing and transport in house to deliver an efficient and customer focused experience.
Salary based on experience

If your interested please submit your applications with a cover letter and Curriculum Vitae to:hr@apsleyfarms.com