Skip to content

Open nowPosted 2 days ago

Vegetables Seed Production Intern

Syngenta Group167 open roles

Where
Woodland, CALIFORNIA, United States
Work mode
On site
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowVegetables Seed Production InternSyngenta Group · Woodland, CALIFORNIA, United States
  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Syngenta Group's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

8.2% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Syngenta Group postings stay open a median of 5 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.8%1 day
  2. 3.6%3 days
  3. 8.2%7 days
  4. 15.2%14 days
  5. 34.0%30 days
This job: posted 2 days ago

Syngenta Group median: 5 days open

The posting

Company Description

About Syngenta

At Syngenta Seeds Field Crops, we're shaping the future of agriculture and empowering farmers to meet the ever-growing demand for food and fuel. We’re a global Ag Tech powerhouse, headquartered in the United States, with passionate, local experts collaborating with farmers to deliver solutions that create market opportunities. We unite precision breeding, advanced biotechnology trait choice, and digital platforms for unmatched in-field performance. Our seeds help mitigate risks such as disease, insect, weed, and extreme weather pressures, all while promoting sustainable farming practices that protect and enhance our planet. Join our mission of revolutionizing food security and transforming agriculture.

Job Description

At Syngenta, our goal is to build the most collaborative and trustworthy team in agriculture, providing top-quality seeds and innovative crop protection solutions that improve farmers' success. We invite you to help shape the future of agriculture and play a role in safely feeding the world while caring for our planet.

Syngenta's SE Production Operations Team is seeking a Vegetables Seed Production Intern in Woodland, CA. This internship role will execute established Small Seed Vegetables (SSV) production activities to assure that Syngenta has a consistent, timely, and reliable supply of high-quality seed in the Cage Production and Commercial Open Field Program.

As part of Syngenta's Emerging Talent Program, you will gain hands-on experience, exposure to day-to-day business operations, and opportunities to apply your academic knowledge to real-world challenges while developing your professional skills.

Accountabilities:

  • Foster an operational culture founded on adherence to all applicable HSE and other corporate policies, procedures, and guidelines.
  • Support Agronomists and Field Production Technicians in field-related activities as directed at the Woodland, California production site.
  • Participate in accurate and timely crop scouting and data collection of emergence and vegetative growth stages, pollination dates, stand counts, and IPM scouting thresholds.
  • Perform activities related to planting, scouting, weed and insect management, rouging, safety, training, harvesting, and reporting at the site.
  • Perform a project to study potential production improvements. Present findings to the Field Production Team in Woodland, California.
  • Ensure all clean-downs and changeovers are done correctly to eliminate any product mixture.
  • Actively support an image that reflects the highest regard for cleanliness and organization.
  • Perform other duties as required to meet field operations needs.
  • Work alongside the Agronomist and Operations Teams to execute key projects/deliverables in the processing of vegetable seeds.
  • Support field activities, such as trial coordination, rouging, disease and weed scouting, pollination, harvesting, threshing, drying, and delivery from grower to processing facility.
  • Complete data validation and reports to support global and regional operations needs, comprising equipment run time and scheduling needs.
  • Support Quality and HSE functions to drive key programs and targeted metrics.
  • Cooperate with Field Quality and Production Research personnel to identify, develop, and implement projects to improve reliability, quality, and/or cost.

Qualifications

  • A High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Enrollment in a Bachelor’s or advanced degree program in an applicable discipline (Agronomy, Agricultural Business, Plant Science/Biology, or another closely related major is preferred).

Desired Qualifications:

  • Students with Sophomore or Junior class standing are highly encouraged to apply.
  • Bilingual (English and Spanish) is ideal but not required.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
  • Self-motivated, go-getter with a strong results orientation.
  • The ability to analyze crops and communicate information (written and spoken) is highly desired in this position.
  • Trusted: Will need to make sound judgment calls regarding seed quality management that are in the best interest of the company.
  • Excellent computer skills, such as proficiency in both Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word.
  • Innovative: Always looking to improve work efficiency and field-related technologies.
  • Detail/Accuracy-Oriented: All procedures and policies must be understood and followed.
  • Ability to perform basic math functions.
  • Valid driver’s license and personal transportation to and from the worksite (Woodland Site Office).
  • Ability to build relationships and work well in a team-based environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage deadlines while maintaining focus on details.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to organize thoughts, data, etc.
  • Ability to learn, willingness to ask questions, and ability to adapt to change.

Additional Information

Salary for this position ranges between $20 - $45 hourly.

What We Offer:

  • A culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members.
  • ⁠Competitive wages
  • Ongoing career development resources
  • The opportunity to work on meaningful, innovative projects that solve problems

Syngenta is committed to creating a culture that celebrates belonging and collaboration, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members

Syngenta has been ranked as a top employer by Science Journal. Learn more about our team and our mission here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVCN_51GbNI

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

#LI-DNI

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Syngenta Group's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.
  3. We apply on Syngenta Group's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.
  4. Every reply, sorted

    Syngenta Group's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.
  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.