KWS is one of the world's leading plant breeding companies. Over 5,000 employees in more than 70 countries generated net sales of around €1.5 billion in the fiscal year 2021/2022. A company with a tradition of family ownership, KWS has operated independently for 165 years. It focuses on plant breeding and the production and sale of seed for corn, sugarbeet, cereals, vegetables, oilseed rape and sunflower. KWS uses leading-edge plant breeding methods to continuously improve yield for farmers and plants' resistance to diseases, pests and abiotic stress. To that end, the company invested more than €285 million last fiscal year in research and development.
We are looking for interested and motivated people between
mid-May and end of August to 3-4 months period,
in full time (8 hours per day)
to support our plant tissue culture activities at our headquarters in
Einbeck through the high workload period as part of a
temporary seasonal contract. The position will be filled with in
KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA. We can offer you a great opportunity to work together and learn from experienced colleagues in one of the KWS leading laboratories. If you would like to find out more about sterile laboratory work and production of double haploids, we would like to hear from you
Your tasks: - Carry out all sterile laboratory work steps in the wheat double haploid plant production
- Support the preparation of the plant material for ploidy analysis
- Completed vocational training or high level of interest in laboratory work without experience
- Working in sterile environment is advantage but not essential
- High level of motivation and willingness to learn
- Good communication and teamwork skills
- Good German or good level of English with basic level (A1-2) of German knowledge is essential
- Available to work from 6am until 2:45pm and occasionally on Saturdays
Seeding the future start with us… What we offer to help you grow: - As a family-run company we are guided by the values of closeness, reliability, foresight and independence; this culture is lived in practice creating thus an open and friendly working atmosphere.
- True to our motto Make yourself grow, we support employees' professional and personal development.
- We offer excellent work equipment (e.g. the newest laboratory equipment), a fully-fledged, subsidized canteen and sufficient free parking spaces at the KWS location.
We look forward to receiving your online application (CV, brief statement of motivation and your experience with sterile lab work) via our SuccessFactors application system! Please use the "Apply" function in the online advertisement for this purpose.
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