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SalaryJob Title
Postdoctoral Research AssociateAgency
Texas A&M Agrilife ResearchDepartment
Soil & Crop SciencesProposed Minimum Salary
CommensurateJob Location
College Station, TexasJob Type
StaffJob Description
Job Responsibilities:
- Assists with the design, planning, and coordination of experiments in support of various research projects involving wet laboratory, greenhouse, and field studies.
- Manages and coordinates various research projects as needed
- Selects and applies standard techniques of routine research and maintains detailed records of data.
- Uses field, lab, or technical equipment to collect data, organize data sets, and prepare reports.
- Evaluates and summarizes results.
- Assists in maintaining financial accounts and other clerical tasks related to research projects.
- Assists undergraduate and/or graduate students and other laboratory, technical or field staff involved in research with various day to day activities.
- Installs, operates, maintains, and/or repairs research equipment.
- Assists with reports, invoices, and cataloging records.
- Assists in ordering supplies for office and research use.
- Maintains and updates inventories.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Required Education:
- A PhD in Weed Science, Molecular Biology, Agronomy, or relevant fields.
Required skills, knowledge or abilities.
- Knowledge of computers and computer software related to the position.
- Ability to multi-task and work cooperatively with others.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work as a team.
- Ability to travel to research stations with some occasional overnight stays.
Preferred skills, knowledge or abilities.
- Knowledge of wet lab skills, sterile techniques, and plant culture in growth chamber and greenhouse settings.
- Knowledge of greenhouse, laboratory, and field research involving weed ecology and management, and agronomy.
- Knowledge of and skills with HPLC analysis.
- Ability and skills in effective scientific writing and publications.
- Ability and skills in grant writing and project management.
Please attach to your completed application:
Resume/CV
List of references with email and daytime phone number.
All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veterans/Disability Employer.
