Unit Manager - Horticulture

Central Crops Research Station is one of eighteen agricultural research centers in the state of North Carolina. North Carolina State University owns the Central Crops Research Station with operational management through the Division of Research Stations. North Carolina State University and the Division of Research Stations establish the general operating procedures. The mission of the Central Crops Research Station is to provide resources, personnel, scientific expertise, and facilities to scientists conducting research in field crops, horticulture crops, swine, tobacco, and environmental areas. It is the responsibility of the staff to actively manage and maintain all projects and to develop long and short-term management schemes.

The research includes multi-discipline research projects, complex breeding programs, leaf and soil microbes, insect and disease control, irrigation, fertility, weed management, plasticulture, and pesticide application, tolerance, and efficacy. The station houses a maize seed lab, seed processing area and long term seed storage facility in addition to tobacco and sweet potato curing facilities. It functions as a teaching facility for both graduate and undergraduate students at NCSU providing crop field labs and animals specimens for graduate and undergraduate classes. The station hosts numerous demonstrations, workshops, field days, and instructional programs for the public each year.

This position will manage the horticulture unit acting as the research program manager for assigned projects, budget, staff, students, facilities, care and maintenance of plant material, conduct research projects, and public relations support for the research station. The manager will assess proposed project requirements for station and unit resources and evaluate long-term effects on both. This position will serve as a liaison between the project staff and the research station.

The validity of research data depends upon the quality of work in the unit manager's position.

This position is located in Clayton, NC.

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