Seed Analyst (Quality Control)

Neev Seeds Pvt. Ltd.; Hisar; On-site; INR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PF and ESI as applicable

Regular performance reviews after each

Job summary

Neev Seeds Pvt. Ltd. in Hisar seeks a meticulous Seed Testing professional to sample, test, and document seed quality. You will perform germination, purity, and moisture tests, maintain traceable sample records, and decide on lot releases as per internal standards.

The role requires accuracy in seedling evaluation and precise handwriting in registers, with regular lab housekeeping and timely reporting. On-site work in Hisar, with occasional travel during GOT plotting seasons.

Qualifications

• Degree in seed science or agriculture with lab experience.
• Proven seedling evaluation ability and accurate record keeping.
• Basic computer skills and reliable email usage.

Responsibilities

• Draw representative samples from incoming and processed lots and maintain records.
• Run germination tests and count seedlings on schedule, classifying results accurately.
• Perform physical purity analysis, ODV counts, weed seeds, and moisture tests.
• Maintain retention sample library with dates to enable traceability.
• Release or hold lots per internal standards and escalate promptly when needed.
• Maintain GOT plots for genetic purity and record observations.
• Keep lab registers, calibration records and test reports audit-ready.

Skills

Seed testing

Seedling evaluation

Record keeping

Excel basics

Email management

Education

M.S. Seed Science and Technology

Seed Technology

B.Sc Agriculture

Tools

Excel

Job description

Every lot that leaves Hisar carries a germination percentage and a purity figure on its tag. You produce that figure. If it is wrong, a farmer finds out five months later standing in his own field, and by then there is nothing anybody can do about it. This is a role where being slow and correct...

What you will do

• Draw representative samples from incoming and processed lots as per the prescribed sampling procedure, and maintain submitted and working sample records lot by lot.
• Run germination tests in the medium each crop requires, take first and final counts on schedule, and classify normal seedlings, abnormal seedlings and dead seed correctly. Seedling evaluation is the skill this job is actually judged on.
• Run physical purity analysis, other distinguishable variety (ODV) counts, other crop seed and weed seed counts, and moisture testing.
• Maintain the retention sample library with dates, so any complaint arriving from Bathinda or Bareilly can be traced back to a physical sample of that exact lot.
• Release or hold lots against Neev's internal standard, and escalate a hold to Production and Operations the same day. A hold is a commercial decision as much as a technical one, so it has to reach the right desk fast.
• Maintain the grow-out test (GOT) plots for genetic purity and record observations at the flowering stage.
• Keep the lab register, equipment calibration records and test reports audit-ready at all times, not in the week before an audit.

What you must have

• M.Sc Seed Science and Technology or Seed Technology, or B.Sc Agriculture with at least 1 year in a seed testing laboratory.
• Correct seedling evaluation. You will be tested on it at interview.
• Careful record keeping. Handwriting in a register still matters in this job.
• Basic Excel, and an email habit you actually keep.

Nice to have

• Experience in an accredited or state seed testing laboratory.
• Exposure to seed health testing or vigour testing.
• Familiarity with tetrazolium testing.
• Working knowledge of the seed standards for wheat, mustard, gram and berseem.

What Neev offers

• PF and ESI as applicable. 600+ authorised distributors and 20+ years of supply chain behind whatever you sell, grow or ship.
• Reviews after each season, not once a year.

Hisar seed testing laboratory, Industrial Area. Occasional travel to GOT plots and the processing area. No sales travel. Monday to Saturday. Longer hours during the post-harvest testing peaks in April to May and November to December, when lots arrive faster than they can be tested.