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PRODUCTION RESEARCH AGRONOMIST

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  • USA
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Job description

Position description

Function

PRODUCTION & OPERATIONS - AGRONOMIC PRODUCTION

Employment Type

Regular Full Time

Contractual hours

Full-time

Main Goal

Within the production team, reporting to the Production Area Manager, this role will work closely with the Coordinator of Europe Production Research activities. His main purpose is to support the improvement of productivity and quality of seed productions through implementation of trials, providing expertise to the production team and supporting production challenges solving.

Job description

Implement production research trials, analyze results
•Participate to annual trials program definition
•Participate to trial protocols definition
•Manage the implementation, monitoring, scoring and harvest of the trials according to trial protocols
•Manage the staff working in the trials
•Analyze data, build synthesis and present recommendations

Provide expertise on varieties to production team
•Observe new varieties in production fields
•Convey technical information (genetic, techniques)
•Support varieties standard yield definition
•Support varieties protocols review

Support production issues solving
•Support production gaps analysis
•Visit production problems with production team
•Analyze the root causes with production team and build action plan (continuous improvement)
•Develop and manage the local production research budget

Profile

•Bachelor's degree (preferably in Agronomy or Ag field)
•Experience in statistics (15% of time) and experimental designs
•PC and business software skills (JMP or other statistic analyze software)
•Strong agronomic and pest management skills
•Experience in implementing field trials ideally Production Research trials
•Practical experience in using field machinery
•Work accuracy, organizational skills, team spirit
•English language advanced level
•Good communication skills
•Position requires to be able to work outdoor in dusty and hot conditions

Position localization

Job location

America/Carribean, USA, California

Location

71 West Kentucky Avenue, Woodland, CA 95695, États-Unis

Candidate criteria

Minimum level of education required

Bachelor's degree

Minimum level of experience required

2 years or more

Languages

English (4 - Fluent)

Requester

Position start date

01/11/2019

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