Grower, Deployment

Oishii; Phillipsburg (NJ); On-site; USD 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Oishii, a leader in premium strawberries, is seeking a Grower to join our Research & Development Team. The role blends hands-on farm work with strategic initiatives to support short- and long-term goals in production and R&D farms.

As a Grower, you will monitor plant health, diseases, pests and environmental stresses; manage yield improvements; and work with cross-functional teams to implement field experiments.

Responsibilities

• Deploy initiatives to improve yield and quality KPIs across farms, maintaining target environmental conditions.
• Collect and analyze data on plant health and environmental controls, sharing concerns early.
• Prepare daily/weekly summaries with visuals using multiple data sources.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive farm improvement actions.

Job description

We grow the world's BEST Strawberries & our R&D team members are a major reason why! As part of our Research & Development Team, a Grower at Oishii contributes to our exceptional product development, and plant health by working cross-functionally to ensure the success of short term and long-range goals in both production farms and R&D farms. Growers serve as subject matter experts to our production teams monitoring & problem solving for plant health, diseases, pest, environmental stresses, quality and yield opportunities and often oversee projects or experiments in various farms to improve growing systems and to characterize plant responses in controlled environments The role is hands-on and strategic with a large portion of time spent in the farm with our plants.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Execute deployment initiatives to achieve yield and quality KPIs (yield and brix) across assigned farms, ensuring target environmental conditions are maintained
• Exercise daily data collection and analysis related to plant health, quality, and environmental control (including IPM) across assigned farms, and proactively share any concerns with supervisors at an early stage
• Conduct data analysis and report key messages on a daily and weekly basis through clear written summaries and visualizations; proficiently leverage multiple data sources and tools to do so
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams alongside supervisors to execute improvement actions related to assigned farms