This is technical work in an agricultural research program. Work includes coordinating field operations and setting up experiments in order to determine the effects of environmental conditions on growth patterns, yield, insects, disease, and weed populations.
Work also includes collecting and analyzing data from experiments conducted on plants or animals.
Incumbents in this class may supervise technical and general labor employees. New, unusual, or complex work situations are almost always referred to a superior for advice. Work is periodically checked for progress and conformance to established policies and requirements. Where the employee is confronted with a variety of duties susceptible to different methods of solution which, in turn, places a correspondingly higher demand upon resourcefulness and concentration. Positions which require the analysis and evaluation of raw data and the rendering of conclusions would, in many instances, fall into this category.