CBARC Summer Student Pooled Position 2026, Adams

CBARC Summer Student Pooled Position 2026

This recruitment will be used to fill up to 12 part-time Student Technical Assistant positions for the Columbia Basin Agricultural Research Center at Oregon State University (OSU). These positions will perform routine to complex technical or specialized tasks in support of research and clinical work. Some positions may include laboratory research, greenhouse operations, field plotting, data collection and simple analysis. Depending on the team the candidate is hired onto, travel within Oregon, Washington and Idaho may be required as well as occasional overnight stays at those locations.Students learn and build vital career-readiness skills in the primary areas below: Communication, Critical Thinking, Teamwork, and Professionalism. Duties to be determined by CBARC faculty may include: Field or bench top research, Laboratory set-up and maintenance, Greenhouse operations, Field plotting, Data collection and analysis and other related tasks, Field and plot weeding, Planting&transplanting of plants in the field, greenhouses&screen houses, General farm work including but not limited to harvest activities and farm equipment awareness and safety training's as needed. Depending on your class schedule, work hours per week will vary from 20-40 hrs per week. Must be academically enrolled in a high school, community college, or university and pursuing a program or course of study. Must meet Academic Standing Requirements; students on academic suspension are not eligible for employment. Must meet the applicable minimal enrollment standard. Ability to take directions and execute. Work with people from diverse backgrounds and ethnicity. Ability to perform farm labor/manual labor. Ability to work in hot weather and of various extremes. Ability to follow directions, Punctual, Interested in agriculture, Enjoy working outdoors and in a laboratory research facility, Experience driving trucks pulling trailers.Work is performed in a typical outdoor eastern Oregon agricultural setting and laboratory research facility to be determined by the faculty at CBARC. May be exposed to hot summer temperatures, walking on uneven terrain, loud noises and agricultural machinery. May need to maneuver up to 50 lbs. and may be required to stoop, bend and kneel as necessary to complete research projects as assigned. Normal hours during the summer months are 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Some travel and/or overtime may be required.