Fall creek is creating a world with better blueberries through its friendly, collaborative team spread across the globe. To help us accomplish this, we are seeking a qualified exttitle. This position will be located in tala, jalisco, mexico.
The fall creek exttitle
*what you'll do at fall creek*:scope of the position*:
lead applied research for advanced selections from the low and zero chill breeding pipelines.
Manage and coordinate advanced selection and new variety trialing, including establishment, data collection, and reporting
provide horticultural technical support to the global commercial organization and develop reports and variety guides to enable successful product launches and grower adoption of new varieties.
Provide training to the grower support teams.
*essential functions*:
design, plan, coordinate, and collaborate on horticultural experimentation.
Establish and coordinate internal and external advanced selection and new variety trials nationally and internationally.
Subjective and quantitative data collection on advanced selections and new varieties at internal and external research locations.
Statistical analysis of global low and no-chill phenotypic data to provide certainty in the decision-making process.
Conduct genotype, environment, and management system-specific research based on the specific needs of the commercial team.
Develop strong knowledge of the breeding pipeline to support the breeding team with selection advancement.
Collaborate with third-party partners to develop studies related to areas of interest for the program.
*what you bring to fall creek*:required education, knowledge, skills and training*:
agronomists/horticulturalists with at least 3 years of experience in horticultural management.
Good written and oral presentation skills in english and spanish.
Desirable knowledge in statistical analysis.
Experience communicating with growers.
Experience working in a sales environment.
Who is fall creek?
We’re a us-based company with a keen focus on blueberry genetics, plants, and grower support delivered to the world’s premier blueberry growers. From our humble beginnings in lowell, oregon more than 40 years ago, we now also have wholly-owned nurseries in mexico, peru, spain, south africa, netherlands, and china. Additionally, we have built a global team of the finest breeders, researchers, propagators and nursery professionals, grower support technicians, sales and customer service experts and more. We’re a deeply-planted link in a global chain, ready to serve our customers and our industry throughout north, central, and south america, greater europe, asia, and africa. Our mission is to serve the growers and to support the blueberry industry, helping to ensure growers maximize success through our delivery of the best genetics and plants, technical know-how and global market intelligence. To fulfill our mission, we focus on cultivating exceptional plants, building strong relationships and providing responsive customer service. This is all part of how we’re helping to build a world with better blueberries.
Fall creek mexico offers a competitive salary and benefit package which includes health insurance, company-paid life insurance, and food coupons. This position requires an executed confidentiality and non-solicitation agreement upon hire. Employment offers are contingent on meeting our drug testing, background, and reference check standards. Eoe