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Syngenta Zambia Job Recruitment

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Syngenta is a world leading agri-business committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology; operating in over 90 Countries and employing over 28,000 people worldwide.

As a result of Syngenta’s recent acquisition of MRI Seed, we have the following vacancy located in Lusaka, on the farms in Chongwe District,

Trialing/NSPP Technician

Main responsibilities

  • Direct technical support to trialing on and off site.
  • Support data collection, data entry and data quality check.
  • Contribute to monitor and ensure success rate of trials and trial seed production
  • Monitor and execute external trials at institute or on private farms if needed.
  • Timely trial execution and data delivery.
  • Reporting of trial results. Also observations/results not specified in the protocol.
  • Biological Assessment Team general support (inventory and stock maintenance, quality documents archive etc)

Qualifications, Experience & Skills required

  • Degree in agriculture with major in agronomy.
  • Minimum experience two years in agriculture related field.
  • Good knowledge of agronomy, seeds,pests and diseases.
  • Basic understanding of trialing and experiment principles and execution.
  • Basic understanding of farm management, crop protection, fertilization and irrigation scheduling.
  • Good computer literacy (Microsoft office package Outlook, Excel, Word and PowerPoint).
  • Strong result orientated and strong sense of deadlines.
  • Identify opportunities of improvement, recognize threats and quickly react
  • Team working attitude, collaboration across boundaries and pro activity
  • Good report writing skills, inventory and archiving maintenance
  • Fluent in English.
  • Salary and Benefit

How to Apply

Competitive salary and benefits shall be offered to the right candidate.

Suitably qualified candidates are requested to email their CVs (no other attachments) stating the role you have applied for in the subject line to Recruitment.Mrizambia@syngenta.

Closing date for receiving applications is 5th October 2015.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.