SENIOR AGRONOMIST
Data: 4 de nov. de 2025
Localização: PT
Empresa: Hortifrut
| Together with the Lead Breeding Assistant decides and schedule treatments for pests and diseases as well as fertigation. Monitors pests and diseases in our fields, which includes scouting pest population and level of severity of diseases. Supports the Lead Breeding Assistant to accomplish department goals and provides special project support as needed. | |||||||||||
| Monitors the quality of irrigation water and fertilizers, which includes collecting samples of water, leaves and substrate and interpretate their results. | |||||||||||
| Assists with accurate data collection from breeding and applied research plots and generates reports about the collected data. | |||||||||||
| Assists with transplanting and tracking of seed/seedlings from controlled crosses. Assists with routine care and maintenance of all plant materials. | |||||||||||
| Responsible for the management of field employees and field overview. Design and control weekly calendar of field activities, as well as field workers vacation. Coordinates and make sure that field activities such as harvest, pruning, irrigation, cleaning, and management of field employees are accomplished. Organizes the maintenance of the site, plans worker schedules, maintains a clean and organized facility. Provides routinary trainings to field employees. Supervises the worked hours from field employees. | |||||||||||
| Provides and update check list of materials, such as fertilizers, phytosanitary treatments, EPI’s and tools. Creates and update the field inventory for checking the condition of tools, materials, machinery as well as the need for calibration and maintenance (Inventory). Supervises and controls the inventory of fertilizers and phytochemicals. Supervises and controls the inventory of basic field supplies: spring water and cleaning products. | |||||||||||
| Verify possible points of improvement, including prevention of accidents, systems of operation and condition of our facilities. | |||||||||||
| Supervises the level and quality of water of our reservoirs. | |||||||||||
| Collaborates with the design of field, nurseries, lab, sustainability projects, contact providers, and provides quotes of services. | |||||||||||
| This position may require the availability to work during the weekends. | |||||||||||
| Works closely with other departments and international teams on various R&D activities such as plant shipping, data reporting, and trial planning. | |||||||||||
| Assures the highest level of confidentiality on sensitive matters concerning company goals and strategy and intellectual property and projects. | |||||||||||
| Ensure compliance with the policies, regulations and procedures established by the company, as well as the standards related to safety, quality, occupational health and environment, in order to protect the health of workers.environment, in order to protect the health of workers. |