Du Pont Pioneer Work Values

Daily Duties at Du Pont Pioneer:

Responsible for deploying molecular breeding to western corn breeding programs which entails communication among various functional groups of DuPont Pioneer, design and analyses of experiments to be used in genomic prediction and executing genomic prediction at both the inbred and hybrid stage. Duties: • Phenotypic and genotypic analyses of specialty traits • Generating predictions to assist breeders in making the best possible selections for inbred and hybrid advancement • Designing experiments to create estimation data sets, map QTL and determine regions of the genome that impact traits • Determining lines to be genotyped and examining genotypic results • Attending meetings and presenting results to breeders or other groups of DuPont Pioneer • Maintain a quarter diversity breeding program • Liaison between multiple functional groups of DuPont Pioneer including information management, breeding technologies, marker lab and other molecular breeding scientists • Supervision of employee to assist Molecular Breeding Scientist (June 2012 – February 2015)

What they like about Du Pont Pioneer:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

Statistics, Research, Data Management, Detail Oriented, R, Project Management, SAS programmer, Communication

Skills

SAS Programmer, Data Management, R for data visualization, Project Management, Detail Oriented, Communication

These are some of the questions we asked our climbers about their experiences with Du Pont Pioneer: