Cultivation Specialist

Job Description: 

The Cultivation Specialist supports daily plant care and facility cleaning, playing a key role in the grow operation. Responsibilities include watering, nutrient mixing, defoliation, and monitoring environmental conditions for assigned flowering plants. They also maintain equipment, log environmental data, track waste, and lead harvest procedures.

Working under the Cultivation Manager, they follow company protocols and compliance standards while contributing to process improvements. Cultivation Specialists may be cross-trained in other plant growth stages and related roles, with opportunities to advance into breeding or packaging positions.

Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Provide any necessary support to the management team to ensure cultivation duties are efficiently and timely completed in a manner consistent with the company’s Standard Operation Procedure for each duty.
• Initial Cultivation Associate duties will involve essential Cultivation operations and may be expanded over time.
• Responsibilities include plant work, and specifically (but not exclusively) topping, sweeping and disinfecting flower/vegetative rooms, disposing of used growing media, preparing rooms for a new transplant and all general cleaning.
• Responsibilities include spot cleaning, cloning, scouting pests, maintaining plant inventory, consolidating vegetative trays, planting coco cubes, watering, and light maintenance.
• Responsibilities include harvesting, applying predatory insects, hanging sticky cards for IPM monitoring, helping with monthly on-hand inventory counts.
• Responsible for following all applicable operational guidelines, comply with verbal directives, and practice and/or implement all safety, security, sanitation policies.
• Responsible for understanding and following all GACP/GMP guidelines throughout the facility.
• Perform such other duties as an employee is qualified to perform and may be assigned.

Required Skills & Qualifications: 

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing, and challenging environment.
• Ability to make decisions as necessary with oversight when needed.
• Proficiency in windows-based and other software and internet navigation.
• Fun attitude, strong work ethic, strong attention to detail and must have a team player mentality and be able to accommodate .
• Scheduling expectations including weekends, evenings and holiday shifts and store location movement.
• Ability to work a minimum of 8 hours a day and rotating shifts, including weekends.
• Ability to lift, push, and pull 50 pounds.
• Ability to sit, squat, bend, and kneel for extended periods and repetitively throughout a workday.
• Ability to stand and walk for 8 hours.

Environmental Demands:

Exposure to pollen, allergens, and non-carcinogenic pesticides, dust, odors, extreme temperatures, artificial light, sun exposure, loud machines, vibrations, and water.

Education & Training Requirements: 

Cultivation Specialists don’t necessarily need a degree. At a minimum, they should have a high school diploma or GED. A certification or associate or bachelor’s degree in a plant specific, farming, or other science related field is preferred but not required. 

Salary: $18 per hour