Controlled Environment Systems Reliability Coordinator

Missouri Ag Connection; Chesterfield (MO); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Vision insurance

Dental insurance

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Sick leave

Job summary

Bayer's Crop Science division in Chesterfield, MO, seeks a Controlled Environment Systems Reliability Coordinator to enhance reliability, readiness, and capacity of growth environments used for research, seed production, and phenotyping.

You will ensure spaces are user-ready, coordinate irrigation, fertigation, IPM, chemical management, and sensor checks, and partner with planners and researchers to improve throughput and data confidence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required in a relevant field.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams in a complex environment.
• Strong communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Improve readiness and reliability of controlled environment systems.
• Coordinate room readiness, sanitation readiness, scouting readiness, layout readiness, and space turnover checks.
• Partner with planners, growers, and research partners to improve capacity utilization and validate CE capacity actuals.
• Own and coordinate irrigation and fertigation readiness, including inventory and maintenance.
• Support IPM to maintain room readiness and rapid turnover.
• Manage chemical/fertilizer storage, labeling, and safety compliance.
• Perform routine inspections of Dosatrons, irrigation parts, and facility conditions.
• Coordinate sensor reliability checks and data confidence across systems.

Skills

Strong communication

Organization

Prioritization

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

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YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Controlled Environment Systems Reliability Coordinator is a key contributor in the Plant Biology Hub that improves the reliability, readiness, and utilization of controlled environments that enable research, seed production, phenotyping, and product development. This role focuses on ensuring growth spaces are user-ready before plant material enters the system, improving operational continuity across room readiness, irrigation, and fertigation, IPM coordination, chemical management, routine inspections, and system sensor checks. The coordinator is accountable for increasing capacity utilization by partnering with planning networks, growers, and research teams to use data, KPIs, and operating insights to improve capacity utilization, room usage, handoffs, and overall controlled environment reliability.

The primary responsibilities of this role, Controlled Environment Systems Reliability Coordinator, are to:

• Improve operational readiness, continuity, 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 time limits, 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

WHO YOU ARE

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Experience in controlled environment, greenhouse, agricultural operations, laboratory operations, facilities coordination, or another technical operations environment
• Working knowledge of controlled environment systems such as irrigation/fertigation, environmental controls, sensors, sanitation workflows, chemical storage, and routine operational inspections
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate routine operational systems, vendors or service providers, supplies, inspections, and follow‑up actions in a complex technical environment
• Ability to work across growers, planners, facility partners, contractors, and technical teams to resolve readiness and reliability issues with urgency and clear accountability
• Commitment to safety, compliance, access controls, training expectations, chemical management standards, and site procedures
• Strong communication, organization, prioritization, problem‑solving, and stakeholder management skills
• Proven track record of improving operational quality, efficiency, reliability, or service delivery within complex technical or research environments

This posting will be available for application until at least September 8, 2026.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $78,640.00 to $117,960.00. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant). Additional benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc.

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Location: Chesterfield

Division: Crop Science

Reference Code: 882454

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