Company: Agricultural Research Council
Industry: Government
Posted: Sep 8, 2025
Deadline: Sep 22, 2025
Job Type: Full Time
Qualification: Matric
Experience:
Location: Western Cape
City: Stellenbosch
Field: Agriculture / Agro-Allied , Research
Description
- Execute tasks in collaboration with researchers on breeding and evaluation of grapevine.
- Assist with flower emasculation and pollination.
- Embryo rescue procedures (tissue culture of seedless grape crosses). This includes Aseptic removal of rudimentary seeds from surface sterilized berries (crosses), culture & dissection of rudimentary seeds to remove embryos for further culture & development and transferring germinating embryos to glass jars.
- Plant seedlings from glass jars to seed trays to harden-off plants from tissue culture.
- Plant seedlings from seed trays to plastic plant bags.
- Assist with tending to plants in greenhouses and tunnels (watering, weeding, fertigation).
- Assist with monitoring of pests and diseases in tunnels and greenhouses.
- Washing glassware and general cleaning of laboratory.
- Correct use of equipment according to specification (autoclaves, stereo microscopes, laminar flow benches, etc.)
- Keep equipment neat and clean.
- Any other ad hoc tasks that may be reasonable to be assigned to the job incumbent.
Requirements
- Grade 10 with experience working in an environment where good hand-eye coordination skills are required.
- Attention to detail and work accuracy is extremely important (rudimentary seeds and especially embryos are very small & very steady hands are needed to not damage embryos when dissecting rudimentary seeds).
- Previous experience working in a tissue culture or other laboratory will be a recommendation.
- Experience working in nurseries and with young plants (especially with grape plants) will be a recommendation.
- Experience in a work environment where tasks are repetitive.
- Excellent communication skills (mostly verbal but also written).
- Valid driver’s licence recommended, but not excluding applicants.
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 18 SEPTEMBER 2025
