Assistant Farm Animal Technician

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Assistant Farm Animal Technician
Agriculture & Environment
Location:
Newport, Shropshire TF10 8NB

Salary:
£18,852 to £20,092

The point of entry will be dependent upon relevant qualifications and experience

Post Type:
Full Time

Contract Type:
Permanent

Closing Date:
23.59 hours GMT on Tuesday 08 February 2022

Interview Date:
To be confirmed

Reference:
RH-704

Harper Adams are looking to recruit an Assistant Farm Animal Technician (Pig Unit) within the Agriculture and Environment Department.
The role will require working with the Livestock Unit Manager. Ideally candidates will have good practical experience in animal production and a genuine interest in development work. Candidates will also be required to have excellent verbal and written communication skills and be able to interact at all levels. Computer literacy with experience of using Microsoft Office suite applications and database recording are desirable.
Further details:
Job description

Harper Adams University is one of the premier UK Higher Education institutions focused on the land-based and food supply chain sector. With around 2,800 undergraduate students, plus those completing postgraduate, research and CPD programmes, Harper Adams University is the UK’s largest single provider of higher education for these subjects. Programmes fall into eleven broad subject areas – but none operate in isolation. Community and collaboration are key at Harper Adams, meaning everyone, including staff, students and industry partners, benefits from a close network of knowledge and opportunity exchange. Situated in Shropshire, the campus and the surrounding area provide an excellent working and living environment for staff and students alike.
Harper Adams is consistently positioned highly in a range of national ratings, performance measures and league tables. The University has been the highest performing modern university in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide for the last four years, climbing to 17th place in the overall league table. In the 2020 guide Harper Adams was named Modern University of the Year and runner-up University of the Year. In the 2019 Whatuni? Student Choice Awards, based on student reviews, Harper Adams won the Student Support category for the fifth time – the only university to have taken the title since the awards began - and won the category for best job prospects for a fourth year running. In the 2020 QS World Rankings for Agriculture and Forestry published in March 2020, Harper Adams was ranked first in the UK for academic reputation and second in the world for its reputation with employers.

Applied research is at the heart of the university’s activity, with the work of a thriving academic community underpinning both teaching and work with the industries allied to Harper. The 2014 Government Research Excellence Framework rated all of the university’s research as “of international quality”, and more than half was deemed “world leading” or “internationally excellent”.

Job Type: Full-time