Job Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below job opportunity is to one of Our clients who is a leading global provider of agricultural science and technology, in particular seeds and crop protection products, with its management headquarters in Basel, Switzerland, and further locations in Chicago, Tel Aviv, and Shanghai.
Job Title: Research scientist I
Work Location: Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Work Type: Onsite
Work Type: Onsite
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Job Description:
- We are seeking a dedicated Research Technician to support plant and seed production activities for commercial crops such as soybean and maize.
- This hands-on role focuses on daily care of research plants and operational support for experiments in modern greenhouse and growth chamber facilities.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform daily plant care activities, including watering, fertilizing, scouting, and general maintenance.
- Conduct planting, sampling, transplanting, and pollination activities.
- Monitor plant growth and performance; collect, document, and maintain accurate records/data.
- Support greenhouse and growth chamber environmental management (monitoring, adjustments, and basic troubleshooting as directed).
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and stewardship expectations.
- Perform all work in accordance with HSE guidelines, company policies, and safe work practices.
- Collaborate effectively with research teams to execute experimental plans and timelines.
- Provide occasional/supplemental weekend and holiday coverage as needed to support critical operations.
Required Skills:
- Ability to perform physical duties required for greenhouse operations in controlled-environment conditions (standing/walking for extended periods; repetitive tasks)
- Demonstrated ability to work independently and effectively in minimally supervised settings
- Strong attention to detail and ability to follow written procedures and protocols precisely
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Commitment to stewardship, quality, and safety (HSE) standards
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Experience with data collection, recordkeeping, and documentation in a protocol-driven or regulated environment
- Greenhouse experience required
- Experience with end-to-end crop life cycles (Sowing to Harvest).
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Agronomy, Horticulture, Plant Science, or a related field OR
- Associate's degree with 2 years of relevant experience
- Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with greenhouse/growth chamber environmental control systems
- Familiarity with agricultural research practices and experimental workflows
- Working knowledge of plant biology, crop growth requirements, and plant care principles.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Research Triangle Park, NC |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $21.12 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Agricultural Cropsunmatched
- Agricultural Scienceunmatched
- Agricultureunmatched
- Agronomyunmatched
- Botanyunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Control Systemsunmatched
- Corporate Policiesunmatched
- Data Qualityunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Environmental Managementunmatched
- Environmental Monitoringunmatched
- Horticultureunmatched
- Identify Issuesunmatched
- Interpersonal Skillsunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Microsoft Excelunmatched
- Microsoft Officeunmatched
- Microsoft Outlookunmatched
- Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
- Microsoft Wordunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Operations Researchunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Regulatory Complianceunmatched
- Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
- Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
- Scientific Researchunmatched
- Stewardshipunmatched
- Team Playerunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
- Writing Skillsunmatched
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