Job Details

Posting Number: S14847P

Working Title: Research Professional I - UGA Soybean and Genetics Laboratory

Department: CAES-Applied Genetic Tech Ctr

Position Summary: The individual at this position will function as an integral member of a team to conduct soybean breeding and genetics field experiments and to develop soybean varieties. The primary responsibilities of this position are 1. Lead setting up, laying out, and managing both summer and winter crossingblocks and lead the team for soybean pollination in both field and greenhouseand managing the greenhouse materials.2. Manage the soybean breeding database and conduct the experimental design,harvest plans, data quality control, data analysis, interpretation, and resultsummarization. Responsible for maintaining seed purity and seed inventories and increasing them as needed3. Closely work with program research coordinator and other team members in all aspects of field research activities, including seed cleaning, treatment andpackaging, planting, managing and maintaining field plots, taking field notes,harvesting plots and plant rows, pod picking, post-harvest phenotyping, seedcomposition analyses.4. Assist in PI and research coordinator to coordinate the breeding projects forregional trials, cooperative tests and serve a liaison between Seed Lab andMolecular Lab for marker-assisted selection and other projects; maintain aninventory of supplies used in our research and order supplies on a needed basis.5. Provide support to the graduate student training and their projects, be responsible for recruiting and managing undergraduate students for the daily tasks and responsible for maintaining and utilizing the NIR machines for soybean seed composition analysis.6. Purchase, when necessary, urgent research field supplies to prevent the delay or loss of research. Complete reconciliation of P-Card receipts and Statementsmonthly.