The Research Technician will support field-based agronomic research in the Intelligent Cropping Systems program at Texas A&M AgriLife Research in Vernon. The position will assist with establishing, maintaining, monitoring, and harvesting research trials involving winter wheat, cotton, and other agronomic crops.
Compensation is commensurate with the candidate’s qualifications.
- Establish and maintain field experiments from planting through harvest, including field preparation, planting, plot layout, staking, labeling, and treatment identification.
- Manage irrigation, fertilization, weed control, insect and disease management, and harvest-aid applications according to research protocols.
- Collect plant and soil samples and agronomic measurements such as plant population, height, growth stage, biomass, canopy characteristics, yield components, and other crop observations.
- Properly label, organize, transport, and document samples and measurements by plot, treatment, and replication.
- Operate tractors, planters, sprayers, fertilizer applicators, irrigation systems, harvest equipment, utility vehicles, and related machinery as appropriate to training and authorization.
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Nice to have: winter wheat
- Nice to have: cotton
- Nice to have: agronomic crops
- Nice to have: research-farm experience
- Health insurance
- dental insurance
- vision insurance
- life insurance
- long-term disability insurance