• Job Description

  Req#: 16092

  Join our team at the KWS Seeds, LLC where we work to strengthen our position in all aspects of trial activities including planting, irrigation, pest control, ratings, and harvest. We are seeking to recruit at the earliest opportunity a full-time permanent Station Manager for our Station Technician team on a permanent, full-time basis in Ogden, UT , USA.

  Summary and Purpose:
  Manages and provides leadership for all functions, staff, budget, equipment, facilities, and related agricultural research activities at the assigned research station.

  Essential Job Functions:

  • Manage all operations for the research station activities including collaboration, advice, and decisions for crop rotations, plot assignments, and general pest and weed control
  • Manage staff in seed productions and trials and facility maintenance
  • Ensure regulatory compliance, training, and adherence to ETS standards
  • Collaborate and lead site selection, negotiation, and contracts for off-station plots
  • Manage the planting and harvest of proprietary seed and steckling productions in the assigned region
  • Organize and contract cooperators, temporary workers, and other necessary parties involved in conducting production
  • Maintain accuracy in seed production, harvest, and GMO-related cultural documentation
  • Manage operations and research budget, regulatory DOT, environmental and safety programs
  • Maintain current knowledge of pesticides and farm practices for crop production
  • Host station guests and growers, help with field tours and participate as requested in giving presentations
  • Hire, train, manage, and evaluate staff performance, ensuring completion of supervisor dialogues
  • Foster collaboration with research stations in the US and Europe to implement innovations
  • Develop, construct and maintain research equipment
  • Provide input on the planning of general farm and cropping systems and pest control station activities and detailed reports to breeding and station groups
  • Travel domestically and internationally, driving on behalf of the business approximately 25%

  Required qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science degree in agronomy, agriculture, biology or related field or extensive related knowledge and experience
  • Knowledge and experience with field equipment and farm experience
  • Ability to work variable hours including weekends as well as travel domestically and internationally
  • Pesticide Applicator’s license or ability to obtain within 6 months of hire
  • Strong mechanical and welding skill
  • Valid driver’s license, able to drive tractor and forklif
  • Demonstrated strong computer skills with working knowledge of Microsoft Office
  • Demonstrated excellent organizational and communication skills with consistent attention to detail
  • Cooperative, flexible and able to work effectively in an international team environment
  • Excellent interpersonal, analytical, communication and leadership skills

  Preffered qualifications:

  • Ability to develop and construct research equipment
  • Experience hiring, training and supervising staf
  • Class CDL license or ability to obtain
  • Ability to be licensed as a Remote Pilot

  Our Offer:

  • A salary between $81,000 to $101,000. This role is also eligible for an annual bonus. This reflects a reasonable estimate of the targeted base salary for this role. Based on factors such as geographic location and candidate qualifications, actual base pay is determined when an employment offer is made
  • Health, dental, vision benefits
  • Pension plan and 401(k) with employer match
  • Flexible paid-time-off (PTO)
  • Professional training and development opportunities

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• About the company

  KWS is one of the world’s leading plant breeding companies. In the fiscal year 2019/2020, more than 5,700 employees in 70 countries generated net sales of EUR 1.3 billion. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for more than 160 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, rapeseed, sunflowers and vegetables. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to increase farmers’ yields and to improve resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than EUR 200 million last fiscal year in research and development.

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