Production Lead (VEG) Job at Syngenta

Responsibilities:

• Ensures stock seeds are received and have all relevant quality information with them and communicates status to the SPM.
• Ensures timely nursery preparation to adhere to the sowing calendar.
• Ensure availability of necessary consumables in the nursery for the smooth running of nursery activities.
• Ensures monitoring and reports germination percentages and deficits for action.
• Ensures proper labeling and colour coding at all stages for traceability and purity control.
• Ensures timely sowing, pricking out and dispatch of seedlings for transplanting as per cropping schedule.
• Monitors and report any structural anomaly in the greenhouse for action.
• Ensures timely transplanting of seedlings in the greenhouses as per the schedule and parent line location map.
• Oversees the implementation of the production plan to achieve the set forecasts.
• Train’s production supervisors and ensures the rest of the production teams are trained to enhance productivity and efficiency.
• Evaluate workers to measure performance and identify areas of improvement
• Coordinates all production-related activities {planting, labeling, training, desuckering, defoliation, rouging, emasculation, pollen harvesting, pollination and harvesting among others} to ensure good quality seeds
• Prepares and submits monthly Vendor progress reports (VPR) to the SPM to ensure the customer is informed on the production progress.
• Ensures adherence to Phytosanitary standards in the field to control pests and diseases.
• Checks and reports irrigation anomalies to the relevant personnel for action.

• Degree in Horticulture, Agriculture or any other relevant qualification.
• 5 years of experience in relevant fields.