Careers

Work where the harvest actually happens

Vistula Fields employs 48 permanent staff and around 35 seasonal crew across four sites. There is no head office layer between the people planning the rotation and the people driving the combine — the agronomy team walks the same blocks the operators cut.

Open roles: 9
Places this season: 28
Permanent staff: 48
Avg. tenure: 9 years

Working here

Straight terms, seasonal reality

We will not pretend arable work is a nine-to-five. Between mid-July and early October the days are long, the weather decides the schedule, and everyone — including the office — ends up on a weighbridge at some point.

What we can promise is that the terms are honest before you sign. Hours, overtime rates, season length and accommodation are written into the offer. Seasonal contracts state an end date and we honour it, and returning crew are contacted first every May before anything is advertised.

Most of our season contracts are open to applicants from outside the EU. Where a role is marked as sponsored, we file the seasonal work permit with the Płock starosta, cover the fee and send you the paperwork you need for the consulate — the only roles we cannot do that for are the ones requiring a Polish state certificate or signing authority. Applications are read by the people you would actually work for, and everyone gets an answer within ten working days.

Why join

What we put on the table

Six things that are true of every contract we issue, permanent or seasonal.

Harvest overtime paid properly

Every hour over contract is paid at the statutory premium, settled monthly. No time banking, no waiting until winter to be made whole.

Training on our own machines

Telehandler, forklift and sprayer certification is funded and taken on site. Operators move up through the fleet as they qualify, not by waiting for a vacancy.

Accommodation for seasonal crew

Shared accommodation at the Kuyavia depot for the harvest season, plus a hot meal on every cutting day. Travel to the block is arranged from the depot.

Real safety standards

PPE supplied and replaced, machinery inspected on a schedule, and a genuine right to stop work. Harvest pressure never overrides a safety call.

Promotion from inside

Most of our permanent operators and two of our four site leads started as seasonal crew. Vacancies go to the yard and the fields before they go to a job board.

A predictable winter

Once the beet campaign closes, permanent staff work regular hours. Maintenance, training and soil sampling season is deliberately calmer than August.

Open positions

Current vacancies

9 roles, 28 places across the four sites. Filter by department or employment type. Select Apply on any role to see the full brief and send your CV straight to our HR desk in Płock.

Spring Drilling Tractor Operator

Seasonal

Department: Field Operations
Location: Kuyavia, Poland
Places this season: 3 places this season

Season contract from early March to the end of May: cultivate and drill spring barley, sugar beet and ware potatoes across the Kuyavia blocks, working the weather window from first travel until the last field is in.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Seasonal Crop Scout

Fixed-term

Department: Agronomy
Location: Płock, Poland
Places this season: 2 places this season

April to late August contract walking the Płock blocks ahead of the agronomists — the eyes that decide whether a fungicide goes on this week or next.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Spring Campaign Sprayer Operator

Fixed-term

Department: Field Operations
Location: Płock, Poland
Places this season: 3 places this season

March to July contract on the self-propelled sprayer, covering the herbicide, fungicide and growth regulator programme across roughly 4,000 hectares of combinable and root crops.

EU/EEA right to work required

Combine Operator, Grain & Rapeseed Harvest

Seasonal

Department: Field Operations
Location: Kuyavia, Poland
Places this season: 3 places this season

Late June to early September on a class 8 combine, cutting winter barley, rapeseed and milling wheat across the Kuyavia blocks with a cart crew that keeps you moving.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Grain Cart & Harvest Haulage Driver

Seasonal

Department: Logistics
Location: Kuyavia, Poland
Places this season: 3 places this season

July to September season contract shuttling grain and rapeseed from the combine to the field edge and on to the Toruń store — the link that decides whether the combine ever stops.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Grain Intake & Drier Operator

Seasonal

Department: Storage
Location: Toruń, Poland
Places this season: 4 places this season

July to November season contract running intake, drying and conditioning at the 38,000 tonne Toruń store — the shift where a good harvest is either preserved or quietly lost.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Root Crop Lift Operator

Seasonal

Department: Field Operations
Location: Kuyavia, Poland
Places this season: 3 places this season

September to early November season contract on the beet and potato lift, running the harvester through the wettest and most unforgiving weeks of the Vistula calendar.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Potato Grading Line Crew

Seasonal

Department: Storage
Location: Toruń, Poland
Places this season: 5 places this season

September to December season contract on the ware potato grading line at Toruń, taking crop straight off the lift and out to packers to a fixed specification.

Open to non-EU nationals — we sponsor the seasonal work permit

Harvest Despatch Coordinator

Fixed-term

Department: Logistics
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Places this season: 2 places this season

July to December cover in the Warsaw despatch office, turning tonnes in a silo into deliveries on a buyer's intake schedule — road across Poland, Germany and Czechia, and rail to the Baltic terminals.

EU/EEA right to work required

Speculative applications

Nothing listed that fits? Tell us what you drive.

We keep a standing list for combine, tractor and telehandler operators, store staff and agronomy graduates. Seasonal recruitment opens each May and the list is worked through before anything is advertised.

jobs@vistulafields.eu

Crops & production

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Contact

Tell us the tonnage and the spec. We’ll tell you what we can hold and when it moves.

Trade & contracts: info@vistulafields.euTonnage, specification and delivery windows
Seasonal recruitment: jobs@vistulafields.euHarvest and store crew lists open each May
Head office: ul. Zbożowa 14, 09-402 PłockIntake desk open 24/7 in harvest