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Agronomist

Agronomist (VC3812) Scarborough, England

Salary: Relocation Package

The Role:

Castle are looking for an Agronomist to join an exciting, revolutionary project based in the Scarborough area. The Agronomist will support and be a part of the client's global Agronomy programme. The Agronomy team contains Scientists that work on a global scale to give commercial, technical and agronomic validity to the project. The role of Agronomist will involve:

  • Manage the demands of experimental designs with site limitations and structure trials for commercial or scientific purposes
  • Deliver technical support to company’s commercial team 
  • Monitor trial performance and schedules
  • Undertake research related to certain crop groups and geographical areas within the client’s programme of global agronomy.
  • Work on the development of crop study programmes
  • Provide statistical analysis of results and produce written and verbal reports including trial abstracts and scientific data summaries

The Candidate:

The client is looking for the following skills/experience:

  • Have the capacity to interpret, analyse and summarise scientific data and information
  • A strong understanding and experience with crop nutrition and crop husbandry (GAP)
  • Knowledge of global crop production systems. Practical experience with tea, sugarcane, tree fruit and oil palm would be an advantage
  • Working knowledge of statistics, trial experimental design, global data management and testing protocols including recommended application rates
  • Post graduate degree in an agronomic science with experience in the field would be highly advantageous
  • Experience with either GenStat, SAS, ARM, SPSS or JMP would be preferred

The Benefits:

The client is offering a salary of up to £80,000, alongside a generous relocation package

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jan/20/lets-move-scarborough-north-yorkshire-where-seasiding-began 

For more information please call Sam Colling on 01723 365432 or email sam@castle-employment.co.uk

 

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