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Perform day-to-day greenhouse/growth chamber activities including planting, pollinating, tissue sampling, pest/disease scouting, harvesting, threshing, discarding, chamber sanitation, general plant care, data collection, data entry, facility cleanliness, and maintaining safety standards. This role requires working within a greenhouse facility—there is no lab work involved. Responsibilities include working in new soybean growth chambers, collecting tissue samples from soybean plants for DNA analysis, watering, potting soil, and caring for all plants in the growth chamber. Additional duties include replanting samples after data review, assisting in operating the soybean threshing machine, plating samples for the Molecular Marker group, cleaning the facility, plant maintenance (trimming, training, and node cleaning), cross-pollinating, and plant discard. You will be working with soybean, wheat, pollen, and dust.
Work SiteThis is a fully on-site position in Johnston, Iowa.
Work EnvironmentMonday-Friday, typically from 7 AM to 3:30 PM, totaling 35-40 hours per week. Occasional weekend and holiday work may be required, with the expectation to work 2 weekends out of every 5 weeks (both Saturday and Sunday for 4 hours, 9 AM-1 PM). The manager will coordinate weekend scheduling, ensuring half-days off during the week leading up to and following the weekend worked.Working in a large, climate-controlled facility with 32 growth chambers. The environment is warm (80-85 degrees and sunny), and the role is physically demanding, requiring standing for 8 hours a day, occasional lifting of 50 pounds, and repetitive motions using tweezers.
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