Job Description : Responsibilities :
Responsibilities :
- Daily greenhouse plant care, including seeding, pollinating, transplanting, watering, harvesting, and seed handling for corn, soybean, wheat, canola and other crops.
- Punch or cut and store small samples of plant tissue and delivery for laboratory analysis.
- Carefully maintain sample identity for thousands of samples at a time while maintaining proper storage conditions.
- Assisting with experiments, collecting data, and maintaining records.
- Perform routine greenhouse sanitation tasks like discarding regulated material and removing waste.
Qualifications :
- High school diploma / GED required.
- Bachelor's degree in agriculture, horticulture, plant physiology, molecular biology, entomology, plant pathology is preferred.
- 2+ years of related experience / equivalent amounts of relevant education and experience is preferred.
- Ability to pay close attention to detail and follow standard operating and safety / ergonomics protocols is essential.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, a high degree of self-motivation, a positive attitude, and the ability to work well independently as well as a team member with minimal supervision.
- Basic computer skills preferred, including MS Office programs (Word, Excel, Outlook), and ability to gain competency with internally-developed research software.
- Due to the nature of the job the candidate should be able to lift 30 pounds with assistance.
- Must be able to tolerate hours of repetitive work in a warm, humid greenhouse with pollen present year-round.
- Must be able to walk the whole facility multiple times a day.
- Must be willing to work around common chemicals and comply with safety measures with said chemicals.
- We have a very strong safety culture and implement safety in everything that we do.
- Candidates must follow all safety procedures.
30+ days ago