Job Description
Posting Start Date:  7/8/25
Offer ID:  1124
Unit:  Europe
Job Title:  Breeding coordinator
Job Location:  Budaors
Contract type:  Permanent
Job Description: 

Function

Research & innovation

Main Goal

Provide technical support for the Soltis sunflower testing team in a multi-disciplinary international environment and process data collected from trialing fields. Facilitate different tasks in the sunflower trials in various countries according to the calendar of work as we are working with plants .Timing is critical part of his work as different actions are tied to certain stage of developments of plants. His role is to focus on data collections in timely manner. He supervises the seed counting processes when it is going during the winter.

Job description

1.He is involved in the trialing field selections by evaluate the fields trough available software. Observes fields and propose them for best suiting trialing design.

2.He leads the seed counting processes in Zsombo during the winter season and spring. Print labels and manage different files for recording inventories and keep tracking the counting and sorting processes. He edits entry lists and working on entries to form them into protocols. He also takes part in the shipping processes.

3. Helix Up work is mainly his job, where he uploads data to the system, design trials and creates extract of data, also take part in the data cleaning processes. 

4. Seasonal scorings, surveys in trials taken by drone are mainly his tasks. Together with the testing team he flies with drone and delegate flying to the testing team. He follows the drone calendar and implement all required flights with the certain objectives determined by the Data Team. He is the main user of the platform of drone data transfers. 

5.He evaluates the scorings relevancies whether it is manual or drone survey in order to use of available resources in the best way and for exploiting maximal results.

6.As an expert, he maintain our WAPs, and control the maintenance of our local hardware infrastructure and other equipment (seed counters, NMR etc.) He is in contact with IT members in order to make the local work fluent in Hungary.

7. Active participation in planting, harvesting, and supervising of seasonal workers processes especially indoor activity. His main role is to be in contact with IT departments to keep all devices and machines like harvesters in required conditions. He takes care of sampling processes and recordings. He is in contact with Lg teams and also responsible for the MAC processes related to Soltis equipment.

8.Sharing across Soltis organization (testing team, breeders, breeding support team) the gained experiences during the season regularly on meetings, keep reporting file up to date and prepare annual testing meeting presentation.

9.Safety responsebilities and tasks:

The Sunflower Research Associate Is responsible for own and other employees’ safety and is obliged to report any incident or accident and all newly emerging risks or hazards. 

The employee is keeping the company safety standards, acts with the Limagrain’s Code of Conduct and other national safety standards. 

What we expect of you

 

  • Experience as research associate
  • Good knowledge in application of modern tools and technologies for improvement
  • Ability to use software for data analyses and management, presentation, and reporting; basic competence in statistics and data management is required.
  • Good  organizational, attention to details and analytical skills are needed.
  • Leadership skills and experience in managing people and programs
  • Driver license (category B)
  • Ability to negotiate in the English language

Your benefits and working environment

Company car

Mobile phone

Laptop

Job location: Zsombo, HUNGARY

Information at a Glance

Limagrain Field Seeds, with its international multi-crop LG brand is the global Feld Seeds division of Group Limagrain. Limagrain Field Seeds covers all continents with subsidiaries in over 40 countries and sales in 77 countries. Limagrain Field Seeds supplies LG branded seeds of Maize, Wheat, Sunflower, Winter Rape and other regional crops to all farmers large or small. A strong commitment to progress through technology ensures that plant variety improvements arrive continually from 84 research sites and are adapted for maximum local performance.

Limagrain is a global company with deep local roots. Our parent company is an agricultural cooperative based in the Limagne-Val d’Allier plain, in the heart of Central France’s Auvergne region, while we are an international seed and agri-food group with some 9,600 employees working in 53 countries. As the 4th largest seed company in the world, we achieved sales of 2.522 billion euros in 2023-2024, with additional sales of 729 million euros from activities carried out in collaboration with our strategic partners.