Research Technician I – Field and Laboratory

About IRRI

Job Purpose

Under the supervision of the Assistant Scientist, the Research Technician will execute routine field, screen-house, greenhouse, and laboratory operations including field preparation and maintenance, crop management, plant sampling as well as harvest and post-harvest seed processing, and laboratory analyses on genome editing research.

This position will be based at the IRRI Headquarters, Los Baños, Philippines and may only be filled by permanent citizens of the Philippines.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Execute routine field, screen-house, greenhouse, and laboratory operations including field preparation and maintenance, crop management, plant sampling as well as harvest and post-harvest seed processing, and laboratory analyses on genome editing research
• Provide timely, consistent, and accurate information to the direct supervisor to ensure that research objectives and SOPs are followed;
• Support researchers and scientists in establishing laboratory and screen-house experiments
• Prepare materials and layout and ensure proper maintenance of the experiment operations, as required by the institute and government protocols including maintenance of storage and preparation of supplies, property and materials inventory, cleanliness, orderliness and safety, preparation of commonly used buffers and reagents in the laboratory as well as fertilizers in the screen-house, and proper waste disposal;
• Collect data and ensure correct encoding on the assigned database

Qualifications

• High school graduate with a minimum of 1 year of relevant work experience

Skills Required

Mandatory

• Has experience in rice production
• Experience in managing experiments in the field, screen-house, greenhouse, laboratory 
  

Preferred

• Basic knowledge of MS Office programs
• Basic understanding of stewardship of biotechnology-derived plant products

IRRI offers a highly extensive employee benefits package inclusive of globally-covered medical insurance, retirement plan, life and accident insurance and other allowances.

Join our team and be part of our story!

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
This position will remain open until filled.