Controlled Environment Reliability & Readiness Lead

Bayer AG; Chesterfield (MO); On-site; USD 79,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Vision

Dental

Retirement plan

PTO

Sick leave

Job summary

Bayer is seeking a qualified professional to serve as the CE Systems Reliability Coordinator, focusing on improving readiness, capacity utilization, and reliability of controlled environment spaces for research, seed production, and product development.

You will partner with planners, growers, and research teams to ensure user-ready spaces, coordinate irrigation and fertigation readiness, and maintain safe, compliant operations across multiple CE systems.

Qualifications

• Experience in controlled environment, greenhouse, agricultural operations or similar technical operations.
• Knowledge of irrigation, environmental controls, sensors, sanitation workflows, chemical storage, and inspections.
• Ability to coordinate routine operations, vendors, supplies, inspections, and follow-up actions.
• Ability to work with growers, planners, contractors, and technical teams to resolve issues with accountability.
• Commitment to safety, compliance, access controls, and chemical management standards.
• Strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Improve readiness and capacity utilization of controlled environment systems that support growers, research execution, seed production, phenotyping, and product development.
• Coordinate room readiness, sanitation readiness, scouting readiness, layout readiness, and space turnover checks to ensure user-ready spaces before plant material enters controlled environments.
• Partner with planners, growers, and research partners to improve capacity utilization, validate CE capacity actuals, enforce schedules, and strengthen handoffs from turnover request through user-ready space.
• Own and coordinate irrigation and fertigation readiness, including fertilizer inventory, stock tank and carboy maintenance, irrigation parts readiness, mobile Dosatron setup, and best-practice alignment to reduce disruption risk.
• Support CE operational readiness by coordinating with IPM team to ensure timely execution of pest management activities to maintain room readiness to support rapid room turnover.
• Support chemical and fertilizer management through barcode inventory updates, chemical tracking, OSHA pictogram labeling, and storage readiness to maintain safe, compliant, and auditable operations.
• Perform or coordinate routine inspections of Dosatrons, irrigation parts, seed processing areas, PB-owned equipment, and facility conditions to identify issues before they become operational disruptions.
• Support system sensor reliability checks outside Metrology scope, including Argus EC sensor calibration, growth chamber EC calibration, and related system checks that protect environmental reliability and data confidence.
• Communicate readiness status, operational issues, risk areas, follow-up actions, and stakeholder impacts to growers, planners, facility partners, contractors, and stakeholders with clear accountability.
• Identify recurring failure points, ownership gaps, and opportunities to simplify workflows, improve service delivery, strengthen operational reliability, and move readiness work from reactive troubleshooting toward proactive prevention.

Skills

Controlled environment

Environmental controls

Safety compliance

Vendor coordination

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Job description

Bayer is seeking a qualified professional to serve as the CE Systems Reliability Coordinator, focusing on improving readiness, capacity utilization, and reliability of controlled environment spaces for research, seed production, and product development.

You will partner with planners, growers, and research teams to ensure user-ready spaces, coordinate irrigation and fertigation readiness, and maintain safe, compliant operations across multiple CE systems.