Assistant Plant Breeder
Location: Oxnard, California, USA Research & Development Department
Full-Time
Duda Farm Fresh Foods is a world leader in celery production, innovation and celery research. A subsidiary of A. Duda & Sons, a family owned company with a rich heritage in celery for 91 years. Duda Farm Fresh Foods has a research center devoted to celery research, a state of the art celery processing facility, a world leading breeding program with approximately 100 celery varieties to its credit including numerous preeminent developments and a team of scientists committed to maintaining its esteemed position.
Duda is currently seeking a qualified candidate as Assistant Plant Breeder to join this team.
The Assistant Plant Breeder will play a critical role in providing assistance to three celery breeders and will be actively involved with the production, harvest and processing teams from Arizona to Northern California. The position will be responsible for celery research including coordination of trials, evaluation, data collection and data analysis.
Duda Farm Fresh Foods is seeking a candidate that is interested in being involved in a diverse research effort that will include varietal development, cultural practices, postharvest studies, processing and harvest techniques, to list a few.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
- • Coordination of breeding trials including seeding, transplanting, harvest and evaluation ensuring appropriate data collection and entry.
- Responsible for providing project status updates, reviews and evaluation and full reports for all research activities to appropriate individuals
- Willing to travel to other locations/out of state in order to assist in seed operations, become familiar with the larger Duda breeding program, team objectives and meetings.
- Responsible for collection of data for patents and providing assistance in data entry.
- Assist in planning, implementation, evaluation and summarization of production research including organic production in celery, lettuce and radish.
- Capable of working as a member of a team sharing responsibilities, ideas, inputs and coordinating for a meaningful and thorough outcome.
- Great temperament for working with growers, nurseries and various individuals outside of the company.
- Capable of differentiating information or materials that are confidential and sharing information appropriately within and outside the Duda organization.
- Experience/Knowledge in Microsoft Office.
- Fluent in English, Spanish beneficial.
- Bachelor’s Degree plus five years’ experience with breeding, trialing or relevant responsibilities required.
- Master’s Degree Preferred. Area(s) of study: plant breeding, biology, horticulture, agronomy or related field.
- Other duties as assigned.
Please submit your cover letter and resume to paula.campuzano@duda.com
More positions from: A. Duda & Sons, Inc. Posted from April 14, 2017 until October 14, 2017 SeedQuest reference number: 87206 |