# Testing Research Associate

**Company**: Bayer
**Location**: Fresno, California
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $78,640.00 - $117,960.00
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Agriculture
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152051

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## Description

At Bayer we're visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real possibility.

Join our team as a Testing Research Associate and play a pivotal role in advancing our vegetable pipelines. This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and passionate individual to join a multidisciplinary team of vegetable breeders, horticultural scientists, data scientists, and engineers.

**Responsibilities:**

- Plan and execute experimental protocols and performance trials in protected culture and open field environments for tomato, sweet peppers, and cucumbers;

- Operate research equipment, take notes, enter data management with internal IT systems, and comply with seed stewardship standards;

- Develop, execute, and continuously improve strategic testing plans in alignment with business objectives to deliver results within the crops;

- Execute protocols and trials to generate quality data enabling breeding partners to advance new products based on performance and market needs;

- Capture data in Windows and iOS operating systems (desktop computing, iPhones, iPads) and conduct data quality checks and assurance;

- Leverage metrics applications and quality control processes to realize accuracy, efficiency, and expanded improvements to protocols;

- Manage relationships with growers and third-party cooperators to ensure timely completion and integrity of data collected;

- Create and use tools from collected and analyzed data to develop the performance story and support the transfer of product and agronomic knowledge;

- Use overall understanding of market potential, competition, key trends, research, and emerging market forces to become an industry expert;

- Explore new technologies to increase capacity, speed up current processes, and deploy novel technologies in data collection and crop management;

- Perform tasks to ensure compliance with Bayer policies and quality standards, including safeguarding of equipment daily use logs, calibration, and maintenance;

- Work extended hours during peak seasons, including non-traditional day-time hours with potential overnight travel;

- For site-based individuals, focus on managing and executing agronomic and crop husbandry practices, as well as other site management activities.

**Requirements:**

- BSc. in Horticulture, Agronomy, or a related field with a minimum of 5 years of crop management experience, either in open field or greenhouse environments;

- Knowledge and experience with agricultural equipment and vegetable crops production practices;

- History of leveraging technology for crop management and data collection.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- PhD with 1 year of experience or MSc with 3 years of experience in related fields.

**Compensation:**

- Salary between $78,640.00 - $117,960.00;

- Additional compensation may include a bonus or incentive compensation;

- Benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

## Skills

### Required
- Horticulture
- Agronomy
- Crop Management
- Data Collection
- Agricultural Equipment

### Nice to have
- PhD in related fields
- MSc in related fields

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