PRODUCTION RESEARCH AGRONOMIST
Internship USA IT development
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