Job Tittle: Laboratory Technician -

Client: Corteva Agriscience

Duration: 12+ Months

Location: Johnston, IA 50131

Shift: Monday – Friday; 40hours; 8:00AM – 5:00PM; Weekend work on rotation

Key Responsibilities

• Performing 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
• Must want to work within a greenhouse facility- there is no lab work.
• Collecting tissue samples off of soybean plants for DNA analysis
• Perform planting, transplanting, plant crossing, harvest, and discard of Soybean and/or Wheat plants.
• Assisting in operating the soybean threshing machine
• Plant maintenance including trimming, training, and node cleaning
• Cross pollinating, plant discard
• Need to be comfortable working with soybean, wheat, pollen and dust
• Cleaning of the facility and other basic duties as assigned