[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "Ames", "description": "Title: Soybean Field Technician - Seeds & Traits R&D\nLocation: Iowa-Ames\nDow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and had annual global sales of $5.7 billion in 2011.\n\nThe Research Technician will assist in day to day operations of the soybean breeding program. This position will provide technical assistance to the breeders and field biologists for the development of new varieties that contribute to the commercial success of the company. Work activities will include assisting with the preparation and management of nursery sites, identifying and managing yield testing sites and supervising temporary employees in seed packaging, planting, tissue sampling, cross pollination and harvest. The Research Technician will work with breeders and field biologists at the Nevada breeding station in a team oriented environment.\n\nTypical activities may include: \n* Perform duties as assigned to support and enhance safe work activities of all personnel at the Nevada breeding station.\n* Assist in the management and care of our Nevada field research station.\n* Assist in seed processing, planting, cross pollination and harvest of nursery material.\n* Assist in seed processing, planting, weed control and harvest of yield trial locations, including the collection of field notes. \n* Assist in supervising temporary personnel during seed processing, tissue sampling, cross pollination and harvest.\n* Travel to outlying sites and winter nursery facilities as needed.\n* Operate and maintain field equipment, load and transport field equipment.\nThis position is located in Nevada, IA, USA.\n\n* High school diploma with 3 to 5 years experience in agricultural research, or AA degree in agriculture or related field.\n* Knowledge and training in agronomic practices for the local area.\n* Commercial driver license and commercial pesticide applicator license, or ability to acquire.\n* Effective communication skills and good organizational skills.\n* Basic computer skills and capabilities, particularly competency in Excel and Word.\n* Familiarity with basic farm equipment operation and maintenance.\n* Ability to work safely and carefully as assigned, and contribute to the safe work culture at the Nevada breeding station.", "date_new": "2012-05-10 19:19:20", "url": "http://dow.jobs/xml/28607535/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Dow Chemical", "title": "Soybean Field Technician - Seeds & Traits R&D", "reqid": "1203854", "state": "Iowa", "state_short": "IA", "location": "Ames, IA", "uid": 28607535}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Marshalltown", "description": "Title: Seed Production Technician - Marshalltown Seeds Operations\nLocation: Iowa-Marshalltown\nDow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and had annual global sales of $5.7 billion in 2011.\n\nMycogen Seeds, a wholly-owned affiliate of Dow AgroSciences, currently has threeSeed Production Technician position open.\n\nProduction Technicians are involved in all areas of seed production within our Marshalltown seeds operations facility and growing locations. This may include crop production, harvesting, conditioning, packaging, warehousing, quality control, and maintenance. Our Production Technicians are key members of our team and ensure the highest levels of safety of our operations. In addition, our Production Technicians are key to ensuring the highest level of quality products for our customers. In this position, you will work closely with and support other on-site personnel in an effort to continuously improve our processes and consistently establish the highest standards in the industry for safety, seed quality, cost, and supply reliability.\n\nResponsibilities include:\n* Corn Production: overseeing crop activities including planting through harvest\n* Conditioning and packaging: seed sizing, cleaning, treatment application, quality control, packaging, labeling and tagging seed, re-bag processed lots\n* Warehousing and distribution: organizing, moving and placing seed into storage, maintaining inventory accuracy utilizing electronic inventory systems, stage seed for shipment to other warehouses and customers, receive seed from other warehouses\n* Maintenance: responsible for preventive maintenance of equipment in assigned areas\n* Continuous Improvement: Writing and updating job procedures, assisting in the training of new employees, and participating on continuous improvement teams\n\n* High School Diploma or equivalent (GED)\n* Valid driver's license for the state of Iowa is a requirement\n* Fluent in English. Candidate must be able to read, write and speak in English without assistance.\n* Candidate must have reliable transportation\n* Ability to do shift work seasonally\n* Production/manufacturing experience\n* Good attitude, ability to be coached and take direction and work well within a team environment\nDesired Skills / Experience:\n* Mechanical abilities (able to operate and trouble shoot equipment)\n* Certified Crop Advisor\n* Familiarity with Windows Operating Systems / Basic computer skills\n* College degree is preferred but not required\n* Prior seeds production experience\n* Prior agricultural experience\n* Ability to speak and write Spanish is a plus but not considered a requirement.", "date_new": "2012-04-26 18:20:13", "url": "http://dow.jobs/xml/28203638/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Dow Chemical", "title": "Seed Production Technician - Marshalltown Seeds Operations", "reqid": "1204205", "state": "Iowa", "state_short": "IA", "location": "Marshalltown, IA", "uid": 28203638}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "Marshalltown", "description": "Title: Maintenance Leader - Manufacturing and Engineering\nLocation: Iowa-Marshalltown\n\nDow AgroSciences, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, develops leading-edge crop protection and plant biotechnology solutions to meet the challenges of the growing world. Dow AgroSciences is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company and had annual global sales of $5.7 billion in 2011.\n\n\nThe Dow AgroSciences Seeds Traits & Oils Business has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Mid-West Hub Sites Maintenance Leader. The Sites are the Mycogen Seeds Facilities located at Marshalltown IA., Olivia MN., Pontiac & Grand Ridge IL., York NE and the Renzes Seeds Site at Carroll, IA. It is expected that the successful candidate will be located at one of these sites, with routine travel required to the other sites.\n\nThe primary purposes of the Maintenance Leader\u2019s role will be to increase the asset mechanical reliability of equipment in these plants, ensure implementation of elements of the small sites Global Maintenance Work Process, and ensure compliance with GMISS requirements. The Maintenance Leader will provide direct maintenance support to the maintenance personnel at the sites through a combination of technical advising and performing hands-on implementation activities. The Maintenance Leader will work closely with plant maintenance personnel to help solve equipment related problems and improve PPM and spare parts programs. Results will be achieved by focusing on those opportunities that have historically impacted the plants\u2019 measured asset mechanical reliability. The Maintenance Leader will provide the maintenance link to the business for budgeting and goal alignment as well as ensuring work process compliance and use of the most effective technology within the empowered team.\n\nKey Responsibilities:\n* Serves as a subject matter expert in equipment failures and repair techniques during root cause investigations, as necessary.\n* Provides technical expertise to plant personnel on troubleshooting failures, repairs, and evaluating whether equipment is designed to meet its intended or existing service conditions.\n* For equipment that is critical for the process ensures that work requests include engineering input on repair details such as clearances, tolerances, materials of construction, welding procedures, etc. and if necessary provide onsite/offsite technical support for deviations from this data.\n* Ensures repairs, repair techniques, equipment specific training, are documented and made available by the team.\n* Provides maintainability input to GPM activities.\n* Support the PPM coordinator, as required, in developing Equipment Maintenance Strategies for critical equipment including reviewing spare parts list for equipment.\n* Develops maintenance operating discipline.\n* Participates in developing the maintenance budget to support the maintenance strategy. \n* Measures the efficiency of the work process and initiates Management of Change for improvements and fast knowledge transfer.\n* Leads the performance management process for approximately 10 direct and indirect Maintenance Tech/Tech reports.\n\n\n* Bachelor of Science in Engineering, preferably Mechanical.\n* A candidate without an Engineering degree but with significant experience in machine design, machine fabrication, and/or repair of industrial processing equipment particularly in an agricultural environment will also be given strong consideration.\n* Six sigma Black Belt or Green Belt Project Leader certification is preferred. If currently not Black Belt or Green Belt Project Leader certified, becoming GBPL certified will be a requirement of this job.", "date_new": "2012-04-09 23:18:37", "url": "http://dow.jobs/xml/27762295/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Dow Chemical", "title": "Maintenance Leader - Manufacturing and Engineering", "reqid": "1202905", "state": "Iowa", "state_short": "IA", "location": "Marshalltown, IA", "uid": 27762295}]