About Us

We all have our improvement stories to tell. At LIC we believe in constant improvement, never settling and always striving for greatness. We know little improvements can add up to huge gains for our customers, and for our country. We value NZ primary industries and will do whatever it takes to support and grow our farmer community. We’re down to earth and we’re a diverse bunch – a mix of super smart scientists, veterinarians, farmers, sales people and clever marketing folk. We are inclusive and count ourselves lucky to have people from all backgrounds working with us.

LIC is based in Newstead, Hamilton, where we enjoy more affordable housing, relaxed commuting, easy parking and a readily accessible outdoor lifestyle. Our campus is in a rural setting including a social club, swimming pool, onsite parking, tennis and volleyball courts and a café with great coffee. We also offer extra leave days per year, family leave for new parents, discounted insurance, employee shares scheme, mental health & well-being program, internal training programmes and an employee assistance programme to name but a few – and we’re still working on improvements!

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a Research Assistant – Bioinformatics to join our innovative Research and Development group. This role provides you with an opportunity to be part of a world-leading research group. If you are excited about using computational skills to help the processing, management and analysis of large bioinformatics datasets consisting of hundreds of thousands of animals then this job is for you. We have one of the largest genotype whole-genome and microbiome sequence datasets in the southern hemisphere. If working with massive biological datasets and contributing to world-leading research interests you, we’d love to hear from you!

Based in Hamilton you would be part of a wider Research and Development team who are working in the areas of genomics, breeding scheme design, animal welfare, statistics, machine learning, and pasture measurement from satellite.

About You

Applicants will display the following attributes:

• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience
• A love of large data and working with it to help to process, manage, and store it
• Experience or interest in working with scientific and high-performance computer systems
• An interest in scripting using Bash or programming languages such as Python or R.

Experience working in a research environment would be an advantage and you will need to be organised and enjoy working across a range of research projects.

How to Apply

If you’re after a rewarding and social career with people who embrace our company values of Integrity, Innovation, Spirit of Co-Operation, In-tune and Passion, then we would consider ourselves lucky to welcome you on-board.

For more information and to apply, go to our website https://careers.lic.co.nz/home

Job code: 42320

Applications Close: 24 June 2022