Associate Scientist
Year Kolthur, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Job Description
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Company Description
Syngenta Seeds is one of the world\xe2\x80\x99s
largest developers and producers of seed
for farmers, commercial growers, retailers
and small seed companies. Syngenta
seeds improve the quality and yields of
crops. High-quality seeds ensure better and
more productive crops, which is why
farmers invest in them. Advanced seeds
help mitigate risks such as disease and
drought and allow farmers to grow food
using less land, less water and fewer
inputs.
Syngenta Seeds brings farmers more
vigorous, stronger, resistant plants,
including innovative hybrid varieties and
biotech crops that can thrive even in
challenging growing conditions.
Syngenta
ROLE PURPOSE -
- Maintaining good agronomy of the crop
- Execution of breeding projects as per the site work instructions and procedures.
- Experiment data documentation, analysis and reporting
- Handling Line purification program
- Handling leaf samping projects
- Coorodinating with breeding, trialing & enabling teams
- Train and monitor technical staff
- Ensure stringent safety and regulatory guidelines
- Strictly adhere to Syngenta Quality standards, Compliance & report deviations
- Direct people responsibility: NA
- Authority level:
- Responsible for local activities
- Work coverage:
- Independently perform field operational activities according to standard operating procedures
- Identify areas for process and technical improvements and provide solutions to increase the quality of the experiments.
- Effective Maintenance of breeding trials
- Plan and coordinate resources for conducting trials
- Ensuring timely labor supply by coordinating with the vendors
- Farm equipment maintenace
- External & Internal stakeholder management
- Asset management & auditing
- Responsible for:
- End to end PLP activities & hand off
- Total agronomy of the trials
- Timely leaf sampling, shipment & coordination with genotyping lab team
- Execution of planned trials as per the timelines
- Administrative responsibility:
- Timely reporting of results to breeding team
- Train and monitor the work done by technical workers to achieve accurate results
- Close interaction & coordination with Breeders & Enabling teams
- Ensure all operations conducted within stringent safety and regulatory guidelines
- Financial responsibility:
- CAPEX: ensure timely delivery of CAPEX items & payments to vendors
- Planning the resources: Placing the indents & ensure the availability of resources at the right time
- Ensure timely submission of bills & make sure timely payments to the vendors in close coordination with the admin team
Qualifications
3. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Critical Knowledge
- Masters degree in Life science (preferable), Agriculture with working experience in field operations (preferably in Rice).
- Basic Knowledge in Plant breeding & Agronomy
- Critical Skills
- Good computer skills (Excel, Word, Power point) for data documentation and analysis.
- Basic ability to communicate both (Verbal and Written) in English and local language (preferred) or Hindi
- Good Interpersonal and communication skills
- Critical Experience
- 2-4 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in farm operations or breeding
- Successful academic training with good knowledge in life sciences
- Plan & execute \xe2\x80\x93 properly plan & execute the projects in a timely manner.
- Communicate with impact \xe2\x80\x93 timely communicate & coordinate with the team.
- Resilient \xe2\x80\x93 able to withstand or recover quickly from sudden changes/unforeseen situations.
- Innovative \xe2\x80\x93 work on continuous improvement by following new methodologies
5. CRITICAL SUCCESS FACTORS & KEY CHALLENGES \xe2\x80\x93 list below the main job contributions, i.e. the key tasks of the job Critical success factors
- Independently perform routine Standard Operating Procedures with minimal supervision.
- Successful planning of lines for purification & production of genetically pure parental lines
- Timely hand off purest parental lines
- Proper planning of leaf sampling & timely shipment & coordinate for on time result delivery
- Document key observations and process data.
- Ability to observe deviations and timely communication.
- Training & capability development of NFTEs.
- General well being of the daily workers : Health, safety at work
- Timely payments to all the field staff & vendors.
- Maintain good social relationship with local communities.
- Be able to deal with challenging situations in a professional manner.
- Effective interactions with the team or supporting forces to ensure quality & quantity.
- Quickly understand and be able to independently perform routine site work instructions with minimal supervision
Additional Information
Additional Information: People are at the heart of what we do:
- Once a year Full body check
- Competitive insurance scheme
- Employee assistance program \xe2\x80\x93 to take care of your and your loved ones mental health
- Paid Vacation of 30days, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, compassionate leaves
- Education assistance \xe2\x80\x93 for your career growth
- People first culture translated into \xe2\x80\x98Most Preferred place to work 2022-23 by Times group\xe2\x80\x99
Note: 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, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. To learn more visit: www.syngenta.com and www.good-growth-plan Follow us on: Twitter & LinkedIn
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Job Detail
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Job IdJD3300787
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IndustryNot mentioned
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Total Positions1
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Job Type:Full Time
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Salary:Not mentioned
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Employment StatusPermanent
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Job LocationKolthur, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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EducationNot mentioned
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ExperienceYear