Company Description

As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.

Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.

Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.

Job Description

We are currently seeking a Senior Product Application Engineer on our Product Technology and Engineering Team in Greensboro, NC. As an Application Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enabling an effective and convenient spray application of our new products, from laboratory to field scale as well as driving the assessment and development of new technologies in this area. You will be in the hub of an international network of agronomists, chemists, engineers, and regulators to meet our customer demands in the safest, most efficient, and most sustainable way to ensure our products are being applied following optimal recommendations. You will be part of a highly experienced technical team and collaborate with experts in the industry across the world.

Accountabilities:

• Support novel product design by gaining and applying a deep understanding of current and future product application needs through intimate knowledge of current and future end-user needs.
• Act as the technology business partner to a wide variety of functions, including the application equipment industry, external customers, and other Syngenta departments such as Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Regulatory, and Research and Development.
• Engaging in early product development by systematically identifying and promoting value adding application technology opportunities.
• Devise research techniques in lab and field settings to evaluate and improve the handling and application of Syngenta products.
• Provide product stewardship support for existing Syngenta products, address quality issues, and strive for innovative solutions for sustained competitive advantage.
• Identify cost, performance, and presentation opportunities to enhance demand for existing products by customers, identify ways to differentiate Syngenta products and/or service offerings, and promote their development.
• Assure that development products support the strategic vision for the formulation function in NAFTA and Global/Regional Business Interfaces.
• Familiarity with the evolution of technology in the agricultural industry, especially around automation, data science, digital, drone applications and precision agriculture.
• Assure Syngenta products are suitably robust for intended use in the desired markets by conducting rigorous application and supply chain testing programs, develop new testing and application methods to ensure customer satisfaction with Syngenta products under all conditions.

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of a B.S. degree in an appropriate scientific discipline such as Agricultural Engineering, Agronomy, Applied Biology, Chemistry, or other Agricultural discipline.
• A solid understanding of the scientific disciplines, Application Technology of agricultural products, Agricultural equipment and machinery, Agricultural Science and Engineering, Precision Agriculture, Agronomy or Formulation Technology.
• Travel requirements – minimal, 10% (product support, field trials, training & conferences).
• Authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred:

• Post-Graduate degree preferred (M.S or Ph.D.).
• Knowledge in aerial application technology and especially drone applications.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving in a fast-moving environment.
• Data analysis skills, instrumentation, and programming experience.

Additional Information

What We Offer:

• A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. Offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needs
• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefits

Syngenta has been ranked as a by Science Journal.

Learn more about our and our mission here:

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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