Seeds Operations Intern

Job Description

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. We invite you to help shape the future of agriculture and play a role in safely feeding the world while caring for our planet.

Syngenta's Operations & Trialing Team is seeking a Seeds Operations Intern in Woodland, CA. This internship role will execute greenhouse, cages, and field activities to assure that Syngenta has a consistent, timely, and reliable delivery.

As part of Syngenta's Emerging Talent Program, you will gain hands-on experience, exposure to day-to-day business operations, and opportunities to apply your academic knowledge to real-world challenges while developing your professional skills.

Accountabilities:

• Foster an operational culture founded on adherence to all applicable HSE and other corporate policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Participate in accurate and timely crop scouting and data collection of emergence and vegetative growth stages, pollination dates, stand counts, and IPM scouting thresholds.
• Perform activities related to planting, scouting, weed and insect management, rouging, safety, training, harvesting, and reporting at the site.
• Perform a project to study potential production improvements. Present findings to the Operations Team in Woodland, California.
• Perform other duties as required to meet field operations needs.
• Work alongside the Agronomist and Operations Teams to execute key projects/deliverables in the processing of vegetable seeds.