Field Agronomist

Field Agronomist

Job Description

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®  At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. 

Please Note: Position located in SW Arizona or SE California.  Must Live within commuting distance or ability to relocate to SW Arizona or SE California, with K-C relocation benefits available.

You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: exploring uncharted questions, engineering innovative solutions, advancing scientific understanding, and constantly pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.

You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to solving real-world problems with purpose and precision.

You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

In this role, you’ll help us shape the future and improve lives for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

About You

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

Job responsibilities include:

Kimberly-Clark is seeking a Field Agronomist to join our agriculture team.

This position requires a motivated self-starter to assist with a variety of R&D and commercialization tasks for a new crop.

This role will require the right candidate to collaborate regularly with agronomists, scientists, and other cross-functional partners in the organization; perform or assist with in-field trial work, data collection, & analysis; scout commercial fields for cropping system issues; help deploy emerging agricultural technologies; and improve or expand sustainable farming practices.

Be part of a fun, motivated team working on a highly impactful project!

Responsibilities


* Regularly scout commercial fields in a given territory to monitor for crop health, weeds, pests, or other issues.


* Perform or assist with field trials and conduct technically sound data collection, analysis, and reporting to the agriculture team in a timely manner.


* Communicate data and recommendations to the agriculture team.


* Interface with numerous commercial farming partners to troubleshoot problems and ensure proper procedures are followed.


* Work in a cross-disciplined environment with high degree of flexibility, including working with external partner collaborations, public / private research organizations, etc.


* Use digital technologies, platforms, and solutions to speed learning and develop best practices for use at commercial scale.


* Implement regenerative agriculture practices that improve the sustainability of the crop.


* Understand and embody our mission & vision:
Optimistic and innovative; solution-oriented; able to function in the speed and ambiguity of new crop development
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