Operations Technician-Seed Health

Job Description
Role Purpose
The purpose of Operations technician is to support the different breeding projects in delivering on project goals by running the seed health processing, testing and registration operations along with supervising a crew of third-party contract labor.
Support overall activities of the site Seed development operations team by leading the logistics, organization and execution of seed health testing, seed registration, and seed shipments.
Follow and apply all HSE (Health, Safety, &
Environment) and Stewardship practices, as well as to provide support to site management with the functional activities of a research facility.
Accountabilities
Functioning as an integral member of operations team covering all activities from seed to seed process from harvest through seed registration, including but not limited to seed health measures, seed cleaning, seed health testing, and inventory management.
Directly manage and supervise including but not limited to seed extraction and packaging of vegetable trials and vegetable breeding nurseries, seed health testing, inventory registration, and shipment assistance of on and off site trials.
Supporting efforts to maintain seed stewardship principles of inventory and performing tasks that include but are not limited to:
seeding, sampling, planting, spraying, threshing and data collection.
Responsible for timely registration of all materials from on and off site trials in to the seed inventory
Management of databases for seed health testing statuses, inventory, and tracking of seed
Maintain seed quality principles of inventory, and performing tasks that include:
Database management, storing, packaging, field trial layout and organization, seed processing, document management, and data collection.
Managing, coaching and training of third-party contract labor to ensure accurate results are achieved. Monitoring performance indicators for third-party contract labor.
On-call for various types of field emergencies or unscheduled work based on business needs or weather conditions (including weekends).
Performing all tasks and behaving in a manner compliant with and in support of all safety and stewardship related company policies and practices, including completing all required company training courses and attending local safety meetings.
Effectively communicating on a daily basis with peers, breeding teams and supervisor regarding the status of projects and work activities.
Participate in research and process-improvement projects related to the growing and breeding of vegetable varieties.