Nursery Manager - Birch Green

Nursery Manager – Birch Green

Joseph Rochford Gardens Ltd. is  currently recruiting a Nursery Manager to lead operations at its Birch Green nursery.

This is a hands-on management role responsible for the day-to-day leadership, organisation and performance of the site. The Nursery Manager will play a central role in delivering exceptional crop quality, maintaining rigorous plant health and biosecurity standards, and ensuring safe, efficient and professional nursery operations.

Reporting to the Production Manager, the successful candidate will manage teams on site, plan and coordinate work programmes, oversee crop production, and drive continuous improvement across all aspects of nursery performance.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Leading, motivating and developing nursery teams, setting clear expectations and targets

  • Planning daily and weekly work schedules in collaboration with the Production Manager

  • Ensuring all crops are grown, maintained and presented to the highest standards

  • Monitoring crops for irrigation, nutrition, pest and disease issues, applying ICM/IPM principles

  • Managing irrigation strategies appropriate to crop, season and conditions

  • Upholding plant health, biosecurity and accreditation scheme requirements

  • Promoting strong health & safety culture, ensuring compliance with COSHH and company procedures

  • Maintaining accurate records for crops, stock, labour and safety using company systems

  • Participating in out-of-hours cover on a rota basis to ensure continuity of plant care

About you:

You will have strong practical experience in commercial nursery production, with proven leadership and people-management skills. You will be confident managing teams, making sound horticultural decisions, and maintaining high standards across plant quality, safety and organisation.

A good working knowledge of plant health, biosecurity, integrated crop management, and nursery systems is essential. You will be organised, communicative, and committed to continuous improvement and professional development.

Salary around £45k depending on experience. 

Nursery Manager Job Description
Application form - Word
Application form - PDF

Applications to be emailed to [email protected] before the end of January