Global Tissue Culture Specialist - Lab Ops

Career Opportunities: Tissue Culture Technical Specialist - Spain (2228)

Requisition ID 2228-Posted - Operations - Full-Time - Job Posting Country (3)

Fall Creek is creating a world with better blueberries through its friendly,collaborative team spread across the globe. To help us accomplish this, we are seeking a qualified Tissue Culture Technical Specialist. This position can be located in Jalisco, Mexico; OR Lima, Peru; OR Sevilla, España; OR Lowell, OR, USA.

The Fall Creek Tissue Culture Technical Specialist is responsible to develop, implement, and provide continuous improvement to all technical aspects of TC growing systems in a world-class TC Production system built on the highest quality plants. This position works in close collaboration with the Tissue Culture Research to support Fall Creek and vendor production labs, as well as Clean Stock Labs across all genetics. The TC Technical Specialist also often functions as liaison with external consultants, researchers and special project teams.

This position is in a laboratory and office setting and requires domestic and international travel.

What you'll do at Fall Creek:

Develops and maintains all standard operating procedures (SOPS) for the technical aspects of growing tissue culture plants at Fall Creek and Vendor labs.

Establish stock management requirements, healthy TC line and TC line replacement standards

Partner with TC Research Program, informing on TC network needs for developing research priorities, facilitating functional/regional research trials and incorporating results into SOPs and BMPs as warranted.

Provide functional support for TC challenges in the system such as ad hoc problem resolution teams, site visits, directing support and collaboration with researchers and consultants, and connecting network resources.

Provide and coordinate training on technical aspects of tissue culture plant production.

Responsible for development and maintenance of best management practices for all labs in the TC ecosystem.

Provides effective leadership and acts as a liaison to connect lab communications and personnel for better interactions among labs.

Supports QA/QC system as subject matter expert with reference to SOPs and Lab BMPs.

What you bring to Fall Creek:

• Requires 3 years’ experience in design or management of lab operations.
• Requires 10+ years’ related experience working in a plant tissue culture lab, preferably with blueberries or similar horticultural crop.
• Requires a Master’s degree in biology, microbiology, plant pathology
  OR equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Professional proficiency in English and Spanish (written and spoken)
• Knowledge and experience with tissue culture propagation methods and knowledge of conventional plant propagation techniques.
• Requires experience in laboratory procedures and data analysis including interpretation and presentation of data.
• Demonstrated Project Management experience - initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and completion.

Who is Fall Creek?

We’re a US-based company with a keen focus on blueberry genetics, plants,and grower support delivered to the world’s premier blueberry growers. From our humble beginnings in Lowell, Oregonmore than40 years ago, we now also havewholly-ownednurseries in Mexico, Peru, Spain, South Africa, Netherlands, China, and Chile. Additionally, we have built a global team of the finest breeders, researchers, propagators and nursery professionals, grower support technicians, sales and customer service experts and more. We’re adeeply-plantedlink in a global chain, ready to serve our customers and our industry throughout North, Central,and South America, Greater Europe, Asia, and Africa. Our mission is to serve the growers and to support the blueberry industry, helping to ensure growers maximize success through our delivery of the best genetics and plants, technical know-how and global market intelligence. To fulfill our mission, we focus on cultivating exceptional plants, building strong relationships and providing responsive customer service. This is all part of how we’re helping to build A World with Better Blueberries™.