At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. To support this mission, Syngenta's Trait Development Team is seeking a Regulated Trialing Specialist 2 in Washington, IA. This role will support the Trait Evaluation field trial network, in executing regulated research yield trials on time, with high precision, accuracy in a safe and compliant manner to generate the highest quality data to allow identification of superior performing products in corn, soybean and wheat.
Accountabilities:
- Function as an integral member of a team responsible for locating/contracting testing locations, planting, plot maintenance, spraying, note taking (phenotyping) and harvesting research trial plots.
- Contact for the regulated trials conducted within assigned geographical region, ensuring all paperwork, documentation and stewardship protocols are followed.
- Act as the key contact to the assigned testing locations.
- Serve as an on operations and maintenance of agricultural machinery, and agricultural research equipment to include precision planters, drones, automated phenotyping equipment and research combines.
- Set the standard for the local team by 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.
- Explain to third-party contract labor to achieve the Trialing Manager's desired results, e.g., assisting the team with field layout, planting, phenotyping harvest and weeding.
- Effectively and regularly communicating with peers and supervisors regarding the status of crop destruct projects, status of work-related activities, quality and timeliness of data collected.
- Propose improvements to processes that have impact both at and across sites.