R&D Trainee Producibility of Vegetable Seeds (February 2025-Septe

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Are you eager to kickstart your career with broad and international R&D experience in breeding and vegetable seed production? Enza Zaden is offering unique opportunities for upcoming scientists in the field of plant sciences, life sciences, biology or related disciplines to join our R&D Trainee program. 

What are you going to do?
With Enza Zaden’s trainee program, we invest in new talents that have a keen interest in advanced and innovative breeding and research methods and have the potential to become leaders in their professional field. During the 19 -month traineeship, you will immerse yourself in three different Enza Zaden locations (in EU) and departments, and work with multidisciplinary top-scientists on relevant industry topics in different crops.

The trainee-track Producibility of Vegetable Seeds will consist of three R&D projects that combine plant science and agronomy in different expertise areas to give breeders the tools to select the most suitable genetics for future seed & food productions:  molecular research to identify genetic leads that are involved in seed producibility such that we ensure availability of high quality and high quantity of Enza seeds for the vegetables we will eat in the future,  and developing innovative research protocols to characterize the differences in the root system of various genotypes, to be used in the future in routine by the breeding teams to select the most resilient genetics capable of coping with abiotic stresses.

During the course of the traineeship you will become an all-round Enza Zaden R&D professional with a solid network in place and the experience that will guide you to your next career moves in our company. In this position, you frequently have feedback sessions with your direct supervisors (a Senior Researcher/Breeder). You will be part of a group of trainees working on other topics, and structured learning and peer contacts will be offered throughout the period.

Your power 
You are passionate about  working  in the lab and/or are highly interested in advanced  innovative plant breeding research methods and techniques . You must demonstrate adaptability to seamlessly transition between precise laboratory tasks and hands-on, practical fieldwork. As an R&D Trainee  you are a practical, result-driven, dedicated and open-minded person that likes to work in a dynamic and fast pace environment. You function well in an international team to apply and share knowledge with your colleagues but you also feel comfortable to work independently. 

This job requires perseverance while you have to deal with complex challenges. You are able to adapt and respond to change. Through setting clear goals and based on substantive arguments you are able to persuade and influence others. In order to achieve your goals you own excellent planning and organising skills.  

To be (s) elected for this position you need the following requirements: 

• Recently graduated Master degree in plant sciences, life sciences, biology or comparable;

• Demonstrable knowledge  of agronomy and agriculture, plant breeding and/or phytopathology and/or molecular biology and/or seed pathology and/or seed physiology and/or cell technology;

• Demonstrable experimental lab skills;

• Flexible in working in different countries;

• Fluent in English, both verbal and written. Dutch is beneficial;

• You must be a citizen of an EU country or have an EU work permit.

You are available for this traineeship from February 1st 2025 until September 1st 2026. We would like to schedule the interviews in the first 2 weeks of January.

If we are happy with each other at the end of the traineeship, we would love to offer you a contract for indefinite duration. Whether we are able to by then will depend on the circumstances at that time.

Our Power
Enza Zaden is a vegetable breeding company that develops vegetable varieties. And produces and sells its seeds all over the world. To explain to you properly (and as briefly as possible) what we do, we have created an animation.
The goal of our work? Giving everyone worldwide access to healthy and varied vegetables. With more than 2,500 passionate colleagues around the world, we work together every day on tomorrow's vegetables.

Would you like to know more about Enza Zaden as an employer? Then take a look at the Careers & Learning page or check out our page on LinkedIn.  

A sneak peak of our benefits:
•    Flexible working policy
•    Home working allowance
•    Travel allowance at +10 km home/work distance based on Google Maps
•    8.33% holiday allowance
•    Performance reward percentage
•    Individual and collective salary increase 
•    25 holidays + 1 vitality day (other vitality days depend on age)

Interested?
Send your application (CV and motivation letter) to our Recruitment Department via the Apply button before 31 December 2024.

More information:
Annemarie Weening
Senior Corporate Recruiter
+31 62970 6834
a.weening@enzazaden.nl

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not appreciated