Nursery seed production specialist
Nursery seed production specialist
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Job Description
Role purpose
- Responsible for execution of nursery parental line purification and trials seed production activity delivery per crop on sites.
- Ensures that seeds of new lines and varieties are delivered in requested quantity and quality meeting timelines and budget targets.
Accountabilities
- Execute nursery and seed production operations within an NSP unit under the supervision of the Technical Support Manager.
- Manage leaf & seed sampling of nursery and trial materials.
- Implement nursery seed production plans and protocols.
- Demonstrate agility by working across various NSPP unit activities.
- Execute nursery activities including:
- Planting
- Maintenance
- Selfing/pollination
- Harvest
- Seed processing according to protocols
- Provide operational support to trials as needed.
- Foster collaboration between breeding teams and R&D supporting functions including: Molecular breeding technologies Data science Phenomics Pathology Trait introgression Double haploids
- Develop and optimize local operational resources and infrastructure.
- Review improve audit and ensure compliance with research procedures.
- Collect and enter data into the system.
- Ensure implementation of SOPs in nursery and trial activities.
- Meet quality and quantity standards aligned with stakeholder needs including Planning Cost management & Quality control
Qualifications :
Knowledge experience & capabilities
Critical knowledge
- Masters degree in agriculture and related subjects
- Agronomic knowledge of corn crops and breeding processes is preferable
- Training in principles of leadership and effective management practices
- Good communication skills
Critical experience
- Minimum of 6 to8 years of experience in small scale seed production farm operation and agronomy in corn field crops.
- Experience in technical service delivery
- Critical technical professional and personal capabilities:
- Ability to work within a team and individually
- Ability to think and plan strategically
- Ability to communicate clearly at all organizational levels
- Ability to set priorities
Critical technical professional and personal capabilities
Critical leadership capabilities
- Leadership and multicultural people management
- Teamwork and excellent across function interaction
- Customer focus - Plays important role
- Decisive - Essential
- Communicative - Very much essential
- Trusted - Essential
- Team oriented Essential
- Result oriented: Very much essential
Additional Information :
People are at the heart of what we do:
- Once a year Full body check
- Competitive insurance scheme
- Employee assistance program to take care of your and your loved ones mental health
- Paid Vacation of 30days 12 Paid Holidays Maternity and Paternity Leave compassionate leaves
- Education assistance for your career growth
- People first culture translated into Most Preferred place to work 2022-23 by Times group
Note: Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment hiring training promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race color religion gender national origin age sexual orientation gender identity marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
