Field Associate Job Description
Field Associate Duties & Responsibilities
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Field Associate Examples
Field Associate Job Description
- Shipping of nursery and hybrid testing materials
- Supervision and training of temporary employees
- Work closely with other research sites to keep program operating efficiently
- Participate with team to successfully maintain the ISO Quality Management Standards
- Assist in other projects and perform other duties as and when required
- Overnight travel during the planting and harvest season is possible
- Operate research planters, hand-held computers, and harvesting equipment
- Utilize information technology tools to manage breeding and testing activities
- Assist with testing program activities including seed packaging, planting, pollinating, data collecting, harvesting, shelling, and threshing
- Recruit, train, develop, and supervise temporary employees
- PC-based equipment and application software knowledge is highly preferred
- Customer Facing experience is highly preferred
- Ability to work extended hours during the peak planting, pollinating and harvest seasons
- Degree emphasis in agronomy
- Familiarity with breeding methodologies is desired
- Broad knowledge of crop production and farming practices farm equipment operation and repair
Field Associate Job Description
- Overnight travel during the planting and harvesting seasons is possible, as is periodic travel for trainings and other meetings
- Manage different operations, seeding, management of plants, data collection, harvest
- Participate with team to successfully maintain the Quality Standards
- Utilization of research equipment such as planters, cotton pickers, combines, and hand held computers for note taking
- Assist in computer related activities and provide support for testing activities such as operation of ginning systems, seed counters, and seed packaging
- Overnight travel during the planting and harvest seasons is required
- Utilization of research equipment such as planters, combines, GPS/GIS data and hand held computers for note taking
- Manage different field testing operations, seeding, management of plots, data collection, harvest
- Assist in computer related activities and provide support for day-to-day nursery and testing activities such as operation of seed counters, seed packaging, soil sampling, and field mapping
- Shipping of nursery and testing materials
- Class A CDL (or ability to obtain)
- Pesticide applicator license (or ability to obtain)
- Bachelor’s degree in Agronomy or related field of study
- Ability to work extended hours during the peak planting and harvesting seasons
- Familiarity with breeding and testing methodologies
- Knowledge of crop production and farming practices
Field Associate Job Description
- Assist in the coordination of day-to-day yield testing activities, including seed packaging, planting, note taking, plot maintenance, and harvesting
- Utilization of research equipment such as planters, combines and hand-held devices
- Provide support for precision agronomic strategies including GPS, GIS, soil sampling, and new equipment technology and its application into a breeding/testing program
- Assist in computer-related activities tracking hybrids and inbreds
- Provide support for day-to-day nursery activities such as pollinating, harvesting and packaging
- Ship nursery and seed testing materials
- Interaction with scientists and breeders on and off site for project related needs
- Participate with the team to successfully maintain the Quality Management Standards
- Overnight travel during planting and harvest season and occasional 2-3 day periods of travel for training and other meetings are likely during the year
- Manage different field testing operations, seeding, management of plants, crossing, self-pollinating, data collection, harvest
- Equipment repair, maintenance, and trouble-shooting skills related to electrical, mechanical, and pneumatic systems
- Knowledge of basic computer programming
- Pesticide applicator license (or willingness to obtain)
- Ability to work extended hours during the peak planting and harvest seasons
- Familiarity with breeding methodologies
- Broad knowledge of farm equipment operation and repair
Field Associate Job Description
- Hold responsibility for seed preparation for planting, tissue sampling, and managing data and regulated tissue sample collections
- Operate and maintain equipment including a semi-tractor/trailer to move oversized equipment, field and lab machinery used for planting, chemical application, plot maintenance, and mechanical harvest
- Ensure local execution of regulatory compliance measures including maintenance of isolation distances
- Hire, train, and supervise part-time/temporary/volunteer staff during peak seasonal workload (i.e., tissue sampling and harvest)
- Review of Monthly Compliance Report (MCR) and the paperwork associated with the MCR such as, check logs, trade blotters, gift logs, entertainment logs, and hard copy correspondence
- Stay abreast of firm policies and procedures
- Manage fields for quality and yield while exercising independent judgment and discretion as appropriate
- Maintain, organize and summarize data associated with seed production including gathering data before, during and after planting, assisting personnel with field mapping, planting, integrated pest management, rouging, detasseling, and other general field activities
- Ability to use technology to collect, evaluate and distribute data
- Effectively communicate with growers, direct reports and management
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant discipline AND at least 5 years of appropriate work experience in Agronomy, Plant Breeding or related field
- Strong understanding of farm equipment maintenance and fabrication
- Master’s Degree in a relevant discipline AND at least 2 years of appropriate work experience in Agronomy, Plant Breeding or related field
- Broad knowledge of crop production and farming practices in Texas and Oklahoma
- Strong knowledge of farm equipment operation and repair
- Class A CDL with air brakes endorsement (or ability to obtain)
Field Associate Job Description
- Will participate on hiring committees, organize and supervise temporary or seasonal workers, and supervise Research Assistants ensuring work is performed in a safe and efficient manner
- Participate on committees and teams related to but not limited to Safety, Field, Plant, Warehouse, DPS, and others
- Lead location safety programs as assigned
- Support processing and warehouse activities including harvest, drying, conditioning, treat/packaging and shipping through fall and winter
- Prepare simple to complex journal entries
- Prepare and ensure the accuracy of month-end close reports
- Act as a liaison between Finance and other departments
- Prepare reconciliation
- Research various issues between data reported by 3rd party processors and operations and sales
- Assist with maintaining the billing databases
- Texas pesticide applicator license (or ability to obtain)
- Military experience is a plus any construction related work experience
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Agronomy or a related field
- Ability to work extended hours during the peak planting, plot maintenance, note taking, and harvest seasons
- Ability to travel overnight for multiple days during peak seasons
- Basic understanding of farm equipment operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting