YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The primary responsibilities of this role, Scientist I, are to: 

• Be fully capable of designing, implementing and summarizing technical, innovative experiments in the field of plant pathology, especially having demonstrated skills and experiences in turf and ornamental (T&O) management; Lab skills in microscopy techniques for disease microorganisms, such as fungi, bacteria and nematodes;
• Demonstrate creative and innovative knowledge and skills for complex biological problem-solving;
• Be able to coordinate and set up trials with internal and external cooperators;
• Demonstrate good planning and organization skills of assigned project workload;
• Must be timely responsible to meet customer and business needs (both internal and external);
• Be fully capable of providing customer training in the field of T&O disease management and product demonstration;
• Have working knowledge of SCOUT, SWATT, Lumos and Microsoft Office software, Data science, UAS pilot license, and other digital skillsets.

WHO YOU ARE

Your success will be driven by your demonstration of our LIFE values.  More specifically related to this position, Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Science in a relevant scientific discipline with at least five years of demonstrated research experience in plant pathology or Master of Science in a relevant scientific discipline with at least two years demonstrated research experience, or Ph.D. in a relevant scientific discipline (e.g. Plant Pathology) with demonstrated research knowledge and experience.