Agricultural engineer/agricultural scientist/plant scientist - Erkelenz, Deutschland - GNT Group

    GNT Group
    GNT Group Erkelenz, Deutschland

    vor 2 Wochen

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    Beschreibung

    Let's color the world

    We are GNT, an ambitious and innovative family-run business with a colorful character With our EXBERRY brand, we are the market leader in the field of Coloring Foods. Our colorings are 100% natural and are made from fruits, vegetables and plants.

    We are world champions when it comes to utilizing the bounty of nature and strive to continuously innovate and improve natural color ingredients for the consumer. By carefully preserving all of nature's beauty and goodness, we are able to offer our clients the highest quality and most reliable products. This is what continues to motivate us every day

    The most important ingredients for GNT's success are our employees and the cooperation that exists between them. We believe in teamwork, and we are there for one another, our clients, our suppliers and our partners. That is what makes us GNT.

    To support our product development department, we are looking for a new member of staff at our site in Erkelenz, Germany as soon as possible:

    Agricultural engineer/agricultural scientist/plant scientist (m/f/d) Arable farming/field trials

    The role:

    • Developing a strategy for the most efficient and fastest way to achieve the breeding objectives
    • Planning, carrying out (sowing, scoring and selection), supervising and evaluating field trials in relation to the above-mentioned breeding activities, but also for testing varieties already on the market and screening genebank material for suitability for the company group
    • Selection on the basis of phenotype and genotype
    • Data management of the assessment results (phenotypic data) and the molecular genetic data sets generated with service providers
    • Application and evaluation of marker analyses, evaluation of sequencing results and other self-generated or externally generated data sets resulting from the breeding activities
    • Co-supervision of external service providers
    • Introduction of new molecular breeding techniques
    • Assistance in the supervision of seed production

    About you, as our ideal candidate:

    The ideal candidate brings the following experiences and competencies to the team:

    • Scientifically trained and active person
    • Working independently, goal-orientated
    • Experience in biostatistics and field trials as well as marker-assisted work in plant breeding
    • Willing to actively participate in data acquisition in the field
    • Work experience in breeding vegetable crops
    • Willingness to travel occasionally
    • Good knowledge of German and English

    What do we find important?

    GNT operates globally, being an independent, family-owned business committed to investing in products, technology and importantly, our people. The GNT values are the basis of our daily activities. That's why we think it's important that we fit together. GNT employs people who are enterprising and take responsibility. Customer and service orientation is of course paramount We always take that extra step to offer our external and internal customers the best service. In addition, we do everything we do as sustainably as possible. We are open and honest with each other and bring out the best in each other.

    What do we offer you?

    • Exciting, varied tasks in a young and motivated team
    • A job with plenty of room contributing yourself
    • A pleasant balance between office work and practical activities
    • A company car with the option of private use
    • Flexible working hours within the teams
    • Fresh fruit, coffee, tea and water flat rate
    • Company pension scheme
    • Job bike/job ticket
    • Joint activities, team events, summer party and sports programmes
    • Further and personal development opportunities

    We color the world, do you?

    Does this vacancy suit you? Please send your motivation, cv, annual salary expectations and earliest possible start date to Janine Hennigfeld, j.-