[{"country_short": "USA", "city": "West Lafayette", "description": "Title: Office Professional- West Lafayette\nLocation: Indiana-West Lafayette\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. Learn more atwww.dowagro.com.\n     \nDow AgroSciences has an immediate opening for a dynamic and entrepreneurial Office Professional for our facility in West Lafayette, IN. \n\nResponsibilities:\n* Maintain supplies, inventory and preparation and tracking of purchase orders that support research activities.\n* Maintain and/or improve the documentation filing systems in the facility.\n* Manage purchase orders in collaboration with headquarter office and suppliers.\n* Identify and negotiate with service providers.\n* Plan and organize meetings and events.\n* Work with Human Resources office for interviewing, hiring and on-boarding logistics.\n* Assist with national and international travel arrangements for employees.\n* Attend phone lines, distribute phone calls and manage of correspondence.\n* Serve as the wellness and health representative for the facility.\n* Prepare confidential documents and communications.\n* An Associate's Degree or higher in Office Administration, Office Management or other business discipline is required.\n* A minimum of 2 years previous successful experience in an office professional, administration, or documentation management role is required\n* Excellent organizational and problem-solving skills.\n* Excellent verbal and written communication skills.\n* Familiarity with diverse environments and a can do attitude.\n* Highly proficient with network calendars Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel and PowerPoint).\n* Familiarity with SAP is a plus.\n* Experience working for research organizations.\n* Familiarity with the use of database to maintain inventory or procurement is a plus.\nExperience working in an industrial setting.", "date_new": "2012-05-22 18:55:13", "url": "http://dow.jobs/xml/28866554/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Dow Chemical", "title": "Office Professional- West Lafayette", "reqid": "1205017", "state": "Indiana", "state_short": "IN", "location": "West Lafayette, IN", "uid": 28866554}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "West Lafayette", "description": "Title: Research Assistant \u2013 Dicot Plant Transformation - TPD-R&D\nLocation: Indiana-West Lafayette\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. Learn more atwww.dowagro.com.\n\nDow AgroSciences Trait Product Development R&D is looking for a Research Assistant \u2013 Dicot Plant Transformation for our Purdue Research Park facility in West Lafayette, Indiana. The selected candidate will be part of a team responsible for the production of plants via tissue culture and transformation that interacts closely with other functions in DowAgrosciences.\n\nThe successful candidate will be responsible for:\n* Supporting production of transgenic plants and cell cultures in a high throughput environment. \n* Performing laboratory procedures following standard protocols with limited supervision. \n* Testing of technical improvements related to cell culture and transformation. \n* Supporting interrelated activities to advance transgenic plants in product development, including sample preparation, sample tracking, and advancing plants to the greenhouse. \n* Support preparation of a variety of high quality plant tissue culture media, explants and preparation of Agrobacterium cultures for Transformation.\n* Bachelor\u2019s degree in Biology, Agronomy, Biochemistry or related area is required.\n* Laboratory experience in genetic transformation of crop plants with working knowledge of plant transformation, plant tissue culture,Agrobacteriumhandling is a requirement.\n* Working knowledge in Molecular biology experience in standard technologies (DNA extraction, PCR, Southern blotting, etc) is a plus.\n* Commitment to safety and teamwork in the workplace is required.\n* Experience working with multidisciplinary teams is highly desired. \n* Basic knowledge of standard information technologies in a research environment (Basic computer literacy, software, databases, lab systems etc.) is required.\n* Demonstration of strong personal leadership, initiative and accountability to deliver against project goals is essential for success.\n* Experience working in a plant sciences industrial setting is preferred.", "date_new": "2012-04-09 23:19:04", "url": "http://dow.jobs/xml/27762392/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Dow Chemical", "title": "Research Assistant \u2013 Dicot Plant Transformation - TPD-R&D", "reqid": "1200300", "state": "Indiana", "state_short": "IN", "location": "West Lafayette, IN", "uid": 27762392}, {"country_short": "USA", "city": "West Lafayette", "description": "Title: Greenhouse Technical Assistant - Trait Product Development- R&D\nLocation: Indiana-West Lafayette\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. Learn more atwww.dowagro.com\n\nTrait Product Development R&D is seeking a dynamic Greenhouse Technical Assistant experienced in greenhouse operations to support biotechnology research to be conducted at ourWest Lafayette, INgreenhouse facility. \n\nResponsibilities will include: \n* Assisting in the operation of a greenhouse facility in support of R&D teams and projects within Dow AgroSciences:\n* Assist in the general operation including space planning and maintenance of the greenhouse supply inventory.\n* Production of high quality plant and seed materials including plant trait isolation, seed processing, storage\n* Devitalization of plant material.\n* Support the introgression of transgenic traits into elite germplasm\n* Prepare the crossing plans.\n* Support pollinations for various trait projects.\n* Development of new introgression strategies.\n* Participate in the improvement of greenhouse infrastructure or processes as needed.\n* Work with greenhouse management team to ensure safety, regulatory compliance, and quality assurance.\n* Associate or Bachelor degree in Agronomy, Horticulture, Agricultural Engineering or a related field required.\n* Minimum 1-2 years relevant experience in plant management is required.\n* Ability to work independently and as part of a team, meet deadlines, attention to detail, and fully embrace safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance guidelines are essential for success.\n* Working knowledge and understanding of daily operations related to plant growth areas and familiarity with greenhouse lighting, watering, fertilization, pest control and greenhouse environmental control systems are expected.\n* Flexibility to work on weekends and holidays on a rotating schedule is required. \n* Ability to perform physical labor under greenhouse conditions, including lifting 50 lbs and tolerating high temperatures for brief periods is required.\n* Experience with the use of databases to maintain/track seed inventories, plant production, and regulatory compliance is a plus.\n* Problem-solving skills and desire to continually improve methods for plant production.\n* Supervisory experience is advantageous.\n* Working experience with major seed row crops is also considered a plus.", "date_new": "2012-04-09 23:18:30", "url": "http://dow.jobs/xml/27762278/job", "country": "United States", "company": "Dow Chemical", "title": "Greenhouse Technical Assistant - Trait Product Development- R&D", "reqid": "1202345", "state": "Indiana", "state_short": "IN", "location": "West Lafayette, IN", "uid": 27762278}]