Agriculture Technician

Salary: £13.8 per hour

Job title: Agriculture Technician

Location: Cambridge, Whittlesford

Contract length: 6 months + extensions

Hourly rate: £13.8per hour – circa £21,500

SRG are working with a leading science-based agrochemical organisation; dedicated to bringing plant potential to life. Each of our 28,000 employees in more than 90countries work together to solve one of humanity’s most pressing challenges: growing more food with fewer resources.

Job responsibilities:

• To support the Nursery and Purity team in the delivery of, field and seed processing operations for Syngenta’s cereals breeding programmes
• To support goals for efficiency, timeliness and quality in all operations
• To undertake a wide range of tasks in scope of the operations team from growing plants in glasshouses, crossing, seed preparation for nurseries and trials, field recording and harvesting
• To develop experience & knowledge of the basic skills and processes required in a breeding program

Job requirements:

• A basic understanding of plant genetics or breeding systems is desirable
• HND or BTEC in Agricultural or Biological science or relevant industry experience is advantageous
• Experience of working within a small team.
• Experience of working in a plant breeding environment is desirable.
• Experience of working with tight and changing deadlines.