|Horticultural Science Technician
- Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
- Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.
- Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Supervise and train agricultural technicians and farm laborers.
- Receive and prepare laboratory samples for analysis, following proper protocols to ensure that they will be stored, prepared, and disposed of efficiently and effectively.
- Adjust testing equipment, and prepare culture media, following standard procedures.
- Operation and Control: Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
- Equipment Selection: Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
- Judgment and Decision Making: Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Inspect orchards and fields to determine maturity dates of crops, or to estimate potential crop damage from weather.
- Tour work areas to observe work being done, to inspect crops, and to evaluate plant and soil conditions.
- Conduct and supervise stock examinations in order to identify diseases or parasites.