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 is seeking a SPR Agronomist in Mezőtúr, Hungary.
Accountabilities
Corn & Sunflower Parent Line characterization in Hungary in quality and in time
- Set up representative trial network according to the local production environment through subcontractors and/or Syngenta R&D
- Supervise notations, observations and trial operations of trialing program during the season
- Deliver (early stages) recommendations on lines to breeders and SPR Parent Line Lead for Corn/Sunflower
- Participate HPC preparation with SPR European team for pre-registration candidates
Support Corn & Sunflower Hungary production team with SPP Input and Production Protocols
- Build Production Instructions, get sign-off from production, follow-up implementation, highlight issues, analyze the performance after the crop season and before the year end
- Visits in season key growing areas in Hungary
- Focus on new varieties ramp-up for Hungary SPP: first protocols & follow-up first 2 years of commercial seed production
Manage Technical and Technological projects in order to secure and improve Corn & Sunflower seed production yield & planning in Hungary
- Lead Hungarian projects: idea, planning, DoE, execution, analysis and report
- Set up field experimentations: density trial, herbicide trial, maturation, experimental plot & specific trials
- Ensure crop management from soil cultivation to harvest, notations and observations
- Support implementation of new technology in experimentation (data records, phenotyping, imagery...) and production (irrigation, imagery, fertilization, machinery, crop protection...) with support of local agriculture partners (eg. Research Institutes)
- Build strong collaboration with Field Production colleagues for better needs understanding and efficient implementation
Manage SPR Hungarian administration & reporting
- Manage seasonal team & trial subcontractors for activity planning, field and processing activities: training, follow-up and administration
- Budget preparation and follow-up
- Reporting to Operations Lead Europe: monthly individual and team update on activity status, regular trials/actions/project status update
- Countinous improvement of ways of working with support of European Production Research colleagues: data capture, compilation, communication, activity planning, digitalization