Application Specialist Jobs

Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all –while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

About Us

We invite you to help our Canada team shape the future of agriculture. At Syngenta, we believe every employee has a role to play in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. To support that challenge, the Formulations & Application Technology team is currently seeking an Product Application Specialist who will conduct product development with a primary focus on seed treatment application technology to support the Seedcare Business.

This role is a laboratory based role at our Plattsville, ON research facility.

• Provide technical support to the commercial team to address product service inquiries.
• Collaborate with formulation development, engineering, production and supply teams, and other stakeholders to perform application testing to ensure our products meet customer’s requirements and can be successfully applied.
• Work with product marketing and technical development colleagues to find opportunities to differentiate and position our products for sustained competitive advantage.
• Prepare application related portions of product labels including directions for use.
• Identify and evaluate new and emerging application and product handling technologies.
• Generate innovative technical content to promote application best practices campaigns in technical marketing efforts.
• Generate high-quality technical reports and evaluations in support of new product introduction and alert key stakeholders of findings.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of biological and chemical/physical performance criteria for products and suitable application techniques to optimize their performance.
• A mechanical aptitude for equipment and operations.
• Experience in theory and practice of application and formulation evaluation in seed treatment in the laboratory and field.
• Applicants should hold a B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree in an appropriate science or engineering discipline such as Chemical Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Applied Biology, Chemistry, or other Agricultural discipline.
• An understanding of modern seed treatment application systems is desirable.

If you feel like you don’t have all the qualifications for this position but are motivated to learn the rest, we encourage you to submit your application!

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• Progressive Employee Policies and Programs including a Flexible Work Location approach, and a vacation policy that provides up to 30 days’ vacation for all employees
• We offer a competitive base salary and incentive bonus potential, combined with challenging and meaningful work, learning and career development opportunities and a great team environment.
• Focus on Wellness and innovative programs that support overall health and wellbeing such as annual Lifestyle Account and free Headspace App
• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes personal and professional development and offers flexible work options to meet both your work and personal needs

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, gender identity, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

Syngenta Contact Information: 

If you need assistance during the application process, please contact the Service Desk at [email protected]

Syngenta Canada welcomes applications from all qualified candidates and is able to accommodate persons with disabilities. For more information about accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process or if you would like more information on our accommodation policies, please contact [email protected]

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