Assistant Breeder Tomato İş İlanı
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QUALIFICATIONS AND JOB DESCRIPTION
KWS Türk Tarim Ticaret is looking for an Assistant Breeder - Tomato for our team in Antalya, Turkey. The position is full-time and unlimited.
Key duties and responsibilities:
- Assist and support the Breeder in optimizing the efficiency and output of the breeding program by designing and implementing new technologies and breeding methods to ensure a constant flow of commercially successful varieties.
- Design, evaluate and formulate with the Breeder the short-term breeding plan, the work process and performance by means of drawing up trial data in filing system, preparing summary reports, give feedback, make proposals, and draw conclusions about the breeding program to facilitate and enable divisional and corporate decision making.
- Design and plan, and after approval of the Breeder, execute, analyze, interpret and document autonomously breeding trials and their results in line with the breeding plan, guidelines and procedures, in order to optimize the efficiency and output of the breeding program.
- Manage and execute the increase and maintenance of basic stock seed in coordination with the Breeder, Stock Seed and/or Production departments to ensure the availability of the quantity and quality of basic stock seeds.
- Manage an accurate and detailed breeding administration and implement new ICT- systems in cooperation with the IT Application Manager, within the breeding team and conform the procedures and guidelines in the breeding department, to enable the running of an efficient and effective breeding program.
- Coordinate and communicate the breeding program activities to the technical assistant(s) and the crop technicians within the breeding team and provide them with technical advice to meet agreed standards, time planning and budgets.
- Develop and maintain updated and broad vision on the market demands and translate market demands into breeding goals to be able to act for the breeder as an equal discussion partner on all breeding issues and to replace the breeder for short to medium term periods (max. 1 year).
- Together with the breeder, give direction to the breeding program in designing and executing the process of continuous variety creation and development for specific market segments within the budget set for the breeding program to develop commercially successful varieties and to produce sufficient, high quality stock seed of parental lines/varieties.
Knowledge, skills, and experience:
- Ability to give direction to the breeding program for the short term.
- Quality and timelines of work preparations for the breeder, technical assistant, and crop technicians.
- Quality and availability of basic stock seeds (stock plant material).
- Creation of selection fields and tests in which good judgements and selections are possible.
- Quality of selected material.
- Accuracy of breeding administration.
- Extend to which the budget is realized.
- The output of commercially successful varieties.
- Quality and correctness of breeding trials.
- Work independently.
- Turkish and English knowledge.
Do you recognize yourself in this job and would you like to know more about the role within the world of KWS Vegetables? Then please click the “Apply” button which you can find in the online ad.
