Senior Scientist – Agricultural Chemistry, Plant Toxicology

🕒 July 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $121k - $210k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Columbus Technologies and Services

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2001

🚀 Aerospace

🎖️ Defense

🏥 Healthcare

Aerospace • Defense • Healthcare

Columbus Technologies and Services, Inc. is a U. S. -based technical services company that provides engineering, science, technology, and talent services primarily to government and research customers. It specializes in aerospace work (spaceflight instrument and mission engineering, space and Earth science, mission operations, data analytics, and IT) and also offers biomedical research, health IT, health policy and compliance support, and national security services including data analytics, cybersecurity and intelligence training, analysis, and operations. Columbus supports federal agencies such as NASA, NOAA and other national research and defense customers.

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the Program Manager and team to effectuate bold research initiatives, support the development, funding, and management of new and existing R&D programs to meet the mission to accelerate better health outcomes for everyone. • Manage programs and projects in topics pertaining to molecular discovery of next generation herbicides and related treatments to maintain high crop productivity. • Provide subject matter expertise on plant toxicology, with emphasis on herbicide mechanisms of action, phytotoxicity, molecular markers of effectiveness, and the fate of agrochemicals ecological systems, soil, and water. • Evaluate technical proposals for scientific merit and innovation. • Perform market and regulatory analyses, technical due diligence, literature reviews and generate briefing documents summarizing technical topics. • Develop technical and administrative programmatic documentation on short timelines to communicate technical approach, progress, cost, schedule and risk.

🎯 Requirements

• A PhD in a related field with 2+ years of experience is preferred; MS in a related field with 5+ years of experience or a BA in a related field with 7+ years of experience is acceptable. • Experience in plant toxicology and/or agricultural chemistry, analytical chemical methods, spectroscopy techniques, and molecular biology methods. • Experience in the development and/or evaluation of analytical chemistry methods for agricultural applications; field-deployable sensing platforms; biosensor-based detection systems; and spectroscopic or chromatographic techniques. • Familiarity with industry leaders and disrupters AI-enabled and high-throughput methods of herbicide development, including biological herbicides; precision agriculture technologies; and agrochemical remediation; and chemical sensing and detection. • Desired familiarity with USDA and EPA regulated agricultural technologies and policies and intersections with FDA on biotechnology. • Experience coordinating independent verification and validation, and previous experience managing programs with cooperative agreements, Other Transaction (OT) awards, milestone-based contracts, FFRDCs, interagency efforts, and commercialization efforts. • Ideal candidates must have strong PowerPoint and Excel skills, which include proficiency with keyboard shortcuts and ability to create PPT slides and Excel files on the fly during a meeting in a high-pressure environment. • Professional curiosity, continuous drive for learning, and the ability to focus on assigned tasks are critical attributes of the ideal candidate. • Ability to communicate complex scientific ideas to broad audiences, digest basic and applied research across areas of biotechnology and apply to health capability gaps, and demonstrate a willingness to explore the scientific literature for emerging biotechnology. • Team oriented with exceptional communication, writing, and organizational skills. • Expertise anticipating and mitigating ethical, legal, and societal implications of high-profile research efforts is desired. • Must be able to obtain a federal government Public Trust clearance.

🏖️ Benefits

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