Small Fruit Breeding Program - Blueberry and Strawberry

Position Summary

This recruitment will be used to fill four part-time (a maximum of 24 hours per week during academic terms and a maximum of 40 hours per week during academic breaks) Technical Assistant for the Horticulture Department at Oregon State University (OSU).Employees assist in field, greenhouse, and laboratory work to support the Berry Breeding Research Program, located at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service – Horticultural Crops Research Lab in Corvallis, OR (campus location), Oregon State University Lewis Brown Farm (research site) and at the North Willamette Research and Extension Center (NWREC), Aurora, OR (research site) Transferable Skill Development Position Duties Duties will consist of:

(field) planting, hoeing/weeding, mowing, trellis building, plant training, pruning, fruit harvest, cross-pollination, recording data;

(lab) dishes and lab-keeping, fruit quality analysis, data collection on plants and fruit samples, data ent...