Operations Specialist

The Operations Specialist for Vegetable Seeds R&D Operations in Woodland CA supports breeding projects by managing greenhouse cage and open field operations while supervising thirdparty contract labor. Key responsibilities include organizing onsite crossing blocks and nurseries conducting field product evaluations and assisting with seed cleaning storage shipment and testing. The specialist must also follow Health Safety and Environment (HSE) guidelines and support site management in research facility activities.

Accountabilities :

• Functioning as an integral member of operations team covering all activities from seed to seed process from sowing to harvest including but not limited to planning request sowing list labelling plantation list organize pollination plan harvest list seed health measures seed cleaning and storage.
• Directly manage and supervise including but not limited to planning seeding sampling planting growing note taking harvesting seed extraction and packaging of vegetable trials and vegetable breeding nurseries.
• Supporting efforts to maintain seed stewardship principles of inventory and performing tasks that include but are not limited to : seeding sampling planting spraying threshing and data collection.
• Use different phenotyping tools to secure trial data collection and data storage. Input and maintain data in database.
• Managing coaching and training of thirdparty contract labor to ensure accurate results are achieved. Monitoring performance indicators for thirdparty contract labor.
• Oncall for greenhouse emergencies or unscheduled work based on business needs or weather conditions (including weekends).
• Performing all tasks and behaving in a manner compliant with and in support of all safety and stewardship related company policies and practices including completing all required company training courses and attending local safety meetings.
• Effectively communicating on a daily basis with peers breeding teams and supervisor regarding the status of projects and work activities.
• Participate in research and processimprovement projects related to the growing and breeding of vegetable varieties.

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Additional Information :

Salary for this role is $56000 $84000 per year.

What We Offer :

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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 marital or veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.

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Key Skills

Financial Services,Information Technology,Cost Control,Corporate Risk Management,Law

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1

Salary : $56,000 - $84,000