Trials Coordinator Apprenticeship THE BRITISH SOCIETY OF PLANT BREEDERS LTD

Location

Lancaster, Lancashire | United Kingdom

Job description

What you will do in your working day

Main Duties:

• Sending trial inspection reports to various crop groups
• Issuing contracts between BSPB and trial operators
• Basic Trials training and exposure – with visits to breeding company learning why we run VCU trials
• Learn how to request operator invoices
• Crop Tours with VCU team – includes an overnight stay
• Attend NIAB Open Days – insight to projects going on within NIAB which covers pre-breeding
• Attend Cereals Event, talking to customers, visiting different stands understanding the industry
• Breeder placement –trial visit of different crops
• Procedure Development Group meetings for various crops throughout the year
• Breeder placement – (RAGT) to learn and be involved with a breeding program
• Assist with preparing sowing lists and distributing to different groups
• Follow a crop from trial concept, inclusion into trial and to trial harvest. To select a crop and follow the process it takes from application through to listing
• Trials design – learn how trials are created for different species. E.g. comparing maize trial design and winter barley designs and how they differ to other crops such as winter wheat
• Data handling – AHDB, BioSS and NIAB are the three data handling operators currently used for different crop species
• AHDB – who are they, what do they do and how are the VCU trials linked to the Recommended Lists
• PGRO - who are they, what do they do and how are the VCU trials linked to the Descriptive Lists
• NIAB – trial operators, seed handling operator, sub-contracted by BSPB for crops such as herbage, maize, sugar beet and WOSR
• Cross training through BSPB departments – Farm Saved Seed, Communications, Licensing, Accounts
• Note and minute taking – to complete a course and start taking minutes of one or two crop group meetings
• Crop Group Meetings – attend as many as possible for the most up to date information and any changes happening
• Apprentice would also attend all team building days, staff meetings and ad hoc team training
• Cereal crop inspection course to complete
• First Aid training – 1 day course
• Health and Safety Training
• Fire Training

The training you will be getting

• The learner will be studying the Business Administrator Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard qualification.
• Day release to West Suffolk College.
• Functional skills will be studied if equivalent qualifications are not held.

What to expect at the end of your apprenticeship

There is an opportunity to join the team full time at the end of the apprenticeship due to succession planning.

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Salary

£15.65k per annum