As a member of R&D team which is responsible for validating and creating farming innovations, Technical Services Researchers implement daily, seasonal and yearly technical and research tasks at their base location and as needed across all farming locations. Must be able to work independently and remotely under field, lab and / or office conditions. Must be able to navigate in a widely-divergent work environment, possibly traveling hundreds of miles per day using safe driving techniques with company provided vehicles. Activities may include applied experiments in agronomy, irrigation, cultivars, farming systems, crop protection or crop physiology.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Establish and implement work plans with supervision of Director of Research
- Coordinate and conduct applied agricultural field and / or laboratory experiments while supporting numerous sequential and overlapping activities
- Ensures the quality and quantity of the work performed by support staff on experiments
- Provide technical information to Farming Directors, Crop Managers, Pest Control Advisors, Spray Operations, Irrigation Managers and field personnel
- Enhance the robustness of experimental activities through continuous vigilance for precision and accuracy of tasks, including trial design, data analysis, and reporting of results
- Seek out and implement opportunities to improve workplace efficiency and safety
- Use, maintenance and troubleshooting of specific field, lab, office, or agricultural equipment related to experiments
- Willingness to learn new tasks while maintaining core competency of existing skills
- Interact and engage with public (academic) and private (vendor) technical experts to explore existing and future farming improvements
- Creation and management of budgets associated with applied field and lab experiments
- Other duties as assigned.