Plant Health Scientist - La Charca Guanajuato

Fecha: 4 feb 2025

Your Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute large-scale inoculum production, ensuring that the amount, viability, timing, and representativeness meet the required standards, reflecting both natural and current pathogen populations.
• Efficiently manage resources to meet production goals, including personnel, budget, laboratory/facility usage, scalability, and cost-efficiency in inoculum production.
• Enhance and optimize inoculum production and diagnostic protocols for new and emerging plant pathogens.
• Collect and analyze disease data, ensuring it is performed at the proper time and in agreement with quality standards.
• Contribute to innovation and automation projects for data collection in the field and greenhouse.
• Train and educate staff on proper sampling techniques, diagnostic methodologies, pathogen handling protocols, and data collection.
• Collect, isolate, culture, and properly store diverse plant pathogens to build and preserve the organization's pathogen collection for long-term viability and usability.
• Provide timely diagnostic results and recommendations to support breeding decisions aimed at developing disease-resistant crop varieties.
• Implement quality assurance practices to ensure diagnostic tests meet established standards and regulatory requirements.

Who You Are:

• MSc or PhD in Plant Pathology or similar areas with demonstrated experience in lab and field data collection.
• Strong background in pathogen identification, pathogen preservation, and inoculation for virulence/aggressiveness assays.
• Experience in disease assessment for corn diseases or other similar crops.
• Results-oriented, adaptable, and detail-focused. Skilled at leading stakeholders through challenges and opportunities. Strong teamwork, creativity, and communication skills.
• Able to manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Availability to travel during the seasons; Driver's license (B category).