Estates Manager

Healeys Cornish Cyder Farm is a family-run, year round visitor attraction and home to the famous Rattler Cyder! Since the company was founded in 1980, Healeys has grown exponentially. With a multi-faceted production facility specialising in a range of products from ciders, wines, preserves and spirits, and a visitor experience boasting more than 160,000 visitors per year, our business is thriving and has a very exciting future ahead.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead our Estates team. If successful in this role You will have overall responsibility for the groups assets – including buildings, grounds and all vehicles . This will include a planned, preventative, and emergency system for all properties ensuring safe, profitable, and well-maintained grounds, orchards, and farm animals of the Healeys Estate. You will need to manage a diverse team as well as deliver on the expectations of multiple stakeholders.

Salary: up to £50,000.00 depending on experience

Duties & Responsibilities

You will have overall responsibility for all group assets – including buildings, grounds and all vehicles.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Managing refurbishment, renovations, ongoing improvement projects
• Ensure proactive building maintenance and management plans are in place to maintain all buildings in superb condition
• Oversee the maintenance of all Company vehicles – including the collection of classic Healey cars
• Electrical system management and compliance across the Estate – liaising with contractors as required
• Ensure the grounds are managed and presented in an appropriate way ensuring exceptional brand experience
• Take accountability for reviewing, updating and embedding policies, standard operating procedures and risk assessments, with a view towards eradicating preventable incidents.
• Making sure all facilities meets relevant health and safety standards, including routine servicing of all relevant items (boilers, kitchen equipment, fire extinguishers, PAT testing etc)
• Ensure all operations are completed with regards to health and safety requirements
• Managing cleaning, waste disposal, catering, parking and security
• Managing budgets
• Negotiating with contractors and suppliers
• Plan for future developments in line with business strategy
• Check that agreed work by staff or contractors has been completed satisfactorily and follow up on any deficiencies.
• Use performance management techniques to monitor and demonstrate achievement of agreed service levels and to lead on improvement
• Respond appropriately to emergencies or urgent issues as they arise and deal with the consequences.
• Ensure the farm animal welfare is of excellent standard, and the animal strategy is managed ensuring we have the right animals (and babies) at the right time of year
• Ensure the farm animals and enclosures are maintained, rotated and developed to give an exceptional brand experience

Experience

• Tourist attraction / Estate management / Site foreman experience
• Supervision and Management responsibility.
• Cross functional team activity.
• Staff Training and team motivation.
• Management of performance standards.
• Health & Safety at work experience and knowledge.
• Report writing and presentation skills.

Education / Qualification / Skills Required

• Professional trade qualification in relevant field such as electrical engineering
• Educated to degree level in appropriate discipline.
• Relevant Health & Safety qualification such as ISOH, NEBOSH
• Able to prioritise, manage deadlines and make decisions
• Have good problem solving skills, calm quick clear decisions
• Flexible approach
• Self confident, self reliant and decisive
• Able to lead and motivate staff
• Have good communication skills
• Broad technical knowledge and understanding of scheduling/control problems
• Be comfortable working under pressure
• Be good with figures and information technology
• In-depth knowledge of the cider production industry

Joining the #RattlerCru is not just about what you can bring to the business. We have a range of great benefits that we hope you will make full use of:

• Subsidised Private Healthcare with Bupa (for permanent staff)
• 50% discount on products
• 50% discount on all food and drink in the restaurant
• Free entry for friends and family, with discounted food and drink
• Free festival tickets
• Cycle to Work Scheme (after probation pass)
• Chill out after your shift with a £1 pint!
• Monthly employee recognition for #FeelGoodFriday
• Monthly breakfast club

We look forward to hearing from you!

The Recruitment Team

Please note that we politely request no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. Speculative CVs from recruitment agencies won’t be accepted, nor the fees associated with them.