Testing Research Associate

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If you’re hungry to build a varied and meaningful career in a community of brilliant and diverse minds to make a real difference, there’s only one choice.

Testing Research Associate

As a Testing Research Associate, you'll play a crucial role in making sure our experimental protocols are on point and that we're using all the right agronomic practices and crop management techniques. You'll also help us gather high throughput data to advance our vegetable pipelines.

This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and passionate individual to join a multidisciplinary team of vegetable breeders, horticultural scientists, data scientists, and engineers who work on creative solutions to complex business problems using advanced field and greenhouse operations, equipment, analytics, and cutting‑edge automation techniques.

This is a permanent position based out of the Leamington, Ontario area.

• Responsible for planning and executing experimental protocols and performance trials in protected culture and open field environments for tomato, sweet peppers, and cucumbers.
• Operates research equipment, taking notes, entering data management with internal IT systems, and complying with seed stewardship standards
• Develops, executes and continuously improves a strategic testing plans in alignment with business objectives and to deliver results within the crops
• Execute protocols and trials to generate quality data enabling breeding partners to advance new products based on performance of products and market needs
• Captures data in Windows and iOS operating systems (desktop computing, iPhones, iPads) and conduct data quality check and assurance to enable timely advancement of vegetable products
• Leverage metrics applications and quality control processes to realize accuracy, efficiency and expanded improvements to protocols
• Manages relationships with growers and third‑party cooperators to ensure timely completion and integrity of data collected
• Creates and uses tools from collected and analyzed data to develop the performance story and support the transfer of product and agronomic knowledge
• Uses overall understanding of market potential, competition, key trends, research and emerging market forces to become an industry expert and develop strategies and plans that effectively grow market share
• Explore new technologies to increase capacity, speed up current processes, and deploy novel technologies in data collection and crop management
• Perform tasks to ensure compliance with Bayer policies and quality standard, including safeguarding of equipment daily use logs, calibration and maintenance
• Ability to work extended hours during peak seasons (including non‑traditional day‑time hours with the potential of overnight travel)
• For individuals based at a site there will be increased focus in managing and executing the agronomic and crop husbandry practices in growing the crop, as well as, other site management activities.

• BSc. in Horticulture, Agronomy or related field with a minimum of 5 years of crop management, either in open field or in in a greenhouse environment. (Candidates with PhD and 1 year experience; or a MSc with 3 years of experience will also be considered)
• Knowledge and experience with agricultural equipment and vegetable crops production practices and history of leveraging that knowledge in a research environment
• Demonstrated abilities to develop project plans, analyze and interpret field trial data
• Ability to perform successfully in a fast‑paced, dynamic, team‑based environment, managing multiple projects and priorities
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross‑functional teams to effectively achieve business results
• Capacity to communicate and work effectively with all management…