Matt Ware Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Yorkshire

Greenhouse HorticultureVerrtical FarmingLightingAutomationOperationsContructionTurnkey projectsEnergy

East Cowick, E Riding Of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Greenhouse Cropping

Cornerways Nursery

Responsibilities:• Responsible for all greenhouse operations across a 45 acre highly modern tomato nursery. • Leading a large team of supervisors and operatives to ensure all work is carried out to maximise yield and fruit availability.• Responsible for driving labour efficiencies and keeping costs to a minimum.• Producing accurate forecasts.• Ensure safe working environment.Achievements:• Successfully implemented an automated harvest operation.• Designed and implemented a new piecerate picking system which improved productivity, this reduced the labour spend by 25%. • Developed and coached a high performing team.• Improved quality of work across site increasing yield which helped increase revenue by 10%.

Wissington, Norfolk

Responsibilities:• Maximise yield potential of the crop by ensuring the highest quality cropwork within budgeted labour spend.• Engage and promote a positive, pro-active safety culture through consistent role model behaviour.• Provide dashboard style reports to report financial performance.• Conducting associated performance management where appropriate.• Strategic planning of cropwork labour requirements.Achievements:• Zero first aid cropwork incidents in 2015.• Through effective coaching supervisors have become autonomous regarding performance management.• Reduced the labour spend in all areas of glasshouse labour by 14%.• Year on year improvement in cropwork quality in a diverse mix of varieties. • Rapidly upskilling a large number of inexperienced employees.

Various

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Batchelor Of Science, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

Biology BSc

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