Sustainable Crop Production/Compliance Placement Bourne 2023

Frontier is the UK's leading crop inputs and grain marketing business, recognised for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the whole arable supply chain.

Frontier is pleased to confirm that we will be offering a placement for 2023 – 2024. The placement will commence in July 2023 for a period of 12 months. The successful student will have the unique opportunity to work in a shared position between 2 key areas of the Frontier business.

Placement Details

This placement, titled sustainability has an overarching link with commercial teams, such as Agronomy and Trading. The placement will involve opportunities throughout the year to learn more about this link and experience these areas of Frontier and how they depend on and interact with each other for the customer.

The successful candidate will split their time between the Sustainable Crop Production and MyCompliance teams through the week.

Sustainable Crop Production

Role: Technical Support, based at Bourne, Lincolnshire and travelling to sites in South of England will be required on occasion. Full role training plus mentoring support throughout the year from a member of the HR team.

• Work as part of the Sustainable Crop Production team within commercial and technical functions, including agronomy, as well as knowledge exchange
• Assist with trials on the Soil Life demonstration sites, including data collection via soil samples and crop assessments, administration of trial protocols and results. This will include working alongside agronomists.
• Assist with administrative tasks on commercial projects, including liaising with partner farms to collect data, data inputting for carbon calculators and record keeping and organisation
• Assistance with organisation of meetings, events and workshops
• Desk based research of sustainability related topics, collating and feeding back findings
• Conduct market research to explore commercial opportunities around sustainability related subjects such as carbon markets and the use of biostimulants
• Assist with internal and external knowledge exchange

MyCompliance

Role: Support Assistant, based at Bourne. To be part of the Frontier national compliance advisory team as a Support Assistant. Full role training plus mentoring support throughout the year from a member of the HR team.

• Printing, collating, binding and posting documentation
• Supporting the MyCompliance team with map work, data compilation and data input
• Gaining a basic understanding of legislation on farm (Cross Compliance, Farming Rules for Water and Farm Assurance)
• Creating a liaison point between the Sustainability and Compliance departments to promote a collaborative working practice.

Personal Requirements

• We are looking for individuals with confidence, enthusiasm and initiative to inspire others and strive for innovation and change. With a proactive nature, you will be required to build effective working relationships inside and outside the business.
• In a rapidly changing environment, you must be ready to work hard, take on new challenges and turn your ideas into reality. Analytical, hands-on qualities with positive and resilient characteristics are essential to Frontier.
• With support from directors, managers, and colleagues you will be expected to gain a quick understanding of our business environment and add value to our organisation. You will be actively encouraged to push boundaries and inspire new ideas and visions for the future.

The Recruitment Process

• Stage 1: Apply online (All applicants)
• Stage 2: VC Interview (For those that have been shortlisted)
• Stage: 3 Assessment Centre (For those that have been shortlisted)

The assessment centre for this placement opportunity will be Tuesday 13 th December 2022, will be at our Witham St Hughs site, Lincolnshire.

About Us

We live by our company values of Integrity, Customer Focus and Expertise, or 'ICE' for short. The way we recruit, select and develop our people is no exception to this. If you are considering a role with us then we will need to:

• Understand how you put customer focus at the heart of what you do
• Know how you build trust and great relationships, always acting with integrity
• Understand how you have developed your expertise and how you are using it to benefit the customer.

Why work for Frontier?

At Frontier, we believe in rewarding our people for a job well done. As an employee you will have access to the following benefits:

• Opportunities for flexible working
• Helping you plan and save for the future with a contributory pension plan offering you a choice of contributing levels of up to 7% which is matched by us
• We know that time out is important for us all that’s why as standard we offer 25 days holiday (per annum) in additional to bank holidays with the opportunity to purchase up to an additional 5 days holiday per year
• Benefits supporting you and your family such as Life Assurance of 3x Salary
• You and your friends and family (up to five people) will have access to our Employee Assistance Programme which provides 24hour support and advice on a variety of topics including financial and wellbeing.
• Access to money saving discounts at selected retailers through our Employee Discounts Programme and our Cycle to Work scheme
• We have dedicated Learning and Development specialists to ensure our commit to your ongoing development
• Access to free eye tests across all roles
• Complimentary parking on site