Education programmes of job
Nature of work
He works solitarily and within the given power tostudy and define nurseries’ locations and needs of materials, prepare the productive plan and oversee its implementation, prepare schedules of specifications and conditions for nurseries bidding and purchases requirements, and prepare technical reports and manage subordinates to develop their skills, and develop procedures for the preparation of general and vocational health and safety requirements. Tasks are:- Study the appropriate climate conditions for nurseries
- Identify nurseries’ needs
- Identify seedlings marketing needs, and prepare productivity plans
- Prepare programs for arranging of nursery ground
- Identify varieties of required seedlings, and selectappropriate times for cultivation, and propagation methods
- Prepare programs for irrigation, fertilization and pest control
- Identify quantities of materials and equipment and its specifications
- Prepare schedules of specifications and conditions for bidding and purchases requirements for nurseries, and technical reports
- Develop methods using modern techniques
- Evaluate subordinates performance to identify needed training to develop their skills
- Provide means and procedures for health and safety requirements
Environment of work
- Engineer for managing agricultural nurseries usually works about 8 hours a day throughout week days, but might be needed sometimes to work overtime during peak periods for preparation and the production of seedlings as well as marketing seasons when needed
- Work environment is a combination between office and field work in nurseries
- He can work independently as self-employment to provide consultations when experience is acquired
- Full-time work is required
- This job can be carried by either male or female equally especially in providing appropriate information to deal with seedlings
- This profession is in a continuous development and needs for appropriate working nature
- He can work individually in own establishment for seeding production or through working in private and public nurseries
- He can adhere to universal standards for nurseries production activities to ensure good quality performance
- He must be honest, credible and independent from emotional effects to confer opinions and document own work in a transparent and neutral way
Professional life
- He can gain practical and theoretical expertise in various aspects of production of various seedlings through training courses, seminars, workshops and various plant nursery activities
- He can work independently or as part of a team in private or public sector. Mostly will be a team manager. Starting salary of work in the public sector will be at least 20000 Syrian pounds
- This job needs to identify varieties of required seedlings, and selecting of appropriate times for cultivation, and identifying propagation methods
- This job needs to prepare programs for irrigation, fertilization and pest control, and monitor its implementation.
- This job needs prepare programs of breeding, pruning and hardening
- This job needs develop working methods using modern techniques
- When practical and administrative expertise are gained, work path will be developed from an engineer for managing agricultural nurseries to more prominent posts and departments within the management of agricultural nurseries which involve planning and marketing of seedlings
- He may travel abroad for providing some activities in the field of agricultural nurseries or for providing expertise about the production and marketing of seedlings
Sectors of careers
- Agricultural nurseries
- Marketing companies
- Animal production farms
- Crop production farms
- Agricultural products providing institutions
- Agricultural Scientific Research Centres
- Agricultural products Marketing institutions
- Faculties of Agriculture and their technical institutions
- Agriculture Directorates and Agricultural centres
Getting the job
For getting this job, one has to study at Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture after achieving a general scientific or agricultural vocational secondary education with good or very good grades, respectively.The student should attend some related courses such as: plant propagation, physiology of horticultural plants, the production of summer vegetable crops, orchards machinery, evergreen fruit production, designing and analysing agricultural experiments, the production of winter vegetable crops, deciduous fruit production, production of ornamental plants, biotechnology for horticultural plants, environmental and physiological diseases for horticultural crops, pests of fruit trees and vegetables, , medicinal and aromatic plants, genetic improvement and producing vegetables seeds, protected agriculture , genetic improvement of fruit trees, design and landscaping, in addition to supportive knowledge in foreign languages, computer and programming.
Agriculture Faculty graduate is preferably to carry on postgraduate studies for M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the Department of Horticulture
Skills
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and be familiar with various work environments
- Ability to showeffective personal skills at work environment through the ability to invent creative ideas & find solutions
- Ability ofself continuous learning to follow the rapid technical development with the ability to transfer own specialised knowledge and skills.
- Ability to accomplish missions punctually, and manage time efficiently according to work priorities
- Ability to manage and develop tasks and resources efficiently.
- Ability to adhere to vocational standards and ethics and assess workers to continuously improve their skills.
- He must have good knowledge of agricultural nurseries and the production and marketing of their products.
- He must have well behaved to tolerate work-loads.
- Ability to prepare programs for arranging and processing of nursery ground and agricultural growing media and soil alternatives mixes
- Ability to identify varieties of required seedlings, and selecting of appropriate times for cultivation, and identifying propagation methods
- Ability to prepare programs for irrigation, fertilization and pest controlAbility to determine appropriate ages to market seedlings
Sources and references
- Internal Regulation of Agriculture Faculty, Aleppo University -2007.
- Arab Standard Classification of Occupations- Arab Labour Organisation-2008.
- National Academic Reference Standards (NARS)- Ministry of Higher Education- 2012.