Agronomist Engineer (M/F)
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A position for a crop protection engineer, specialist in flax diseases, is to be filled within the Integrated Crop Protection service (SPIC) in the "Diseases and Control Methods" pole.
Missions: Under the responsibility of the pole manager, in functional link with the sector coordinator and in collaboration with various colleagues from the institute and external partners, you will contribute to the research, development, and transfer programs surrounding the main diseases of fiber flax. Thus, you will:
- Participate in the definition of work axes (targets and levers worked, experiments, studies, surveys, dissemination of results, etc.) and perform technological and scientific monitoring on your theme.
- Coordinate and participate in national and international research and development projects in the search for operational solutions against fiber flax diseases. In particular, you will lead the ARVALIS contribution to the European project Trans-Pathoflax 2.0 led by Inagro (Belgium).
- Contribute to the acquisition of new knowledge on the biology and epidemiology of fungal diseases by drawing on the expertise of the Arvalis plant pathology laboratory, GENOPAV.
- Participate in the development of decision support tools.
- Develop new control strategies by combining integrated protection levers.
- Provide training on biology and disease recognition.
- Transfer the references acquired by the institute through technical and scientific communications and, more broadly, you will participate, in connection with the regional teams, in the various written and oral communication actions of the institute on fiber flax cultivation.
Profile:
- Agronomist Engineer/Master II in agronomy
- In-depth knowledge in phytopathology or modeling will be appreciated.
- Organized, rigorous, and enjoys working in a team.
- Oral fluency, ability to synthesize, and writing skills.
- Proficiency in professional English (oral and written).
- Proficiency in statistics and dedicated software (R, Excel, etc.)
- Driving license B