Full job description
We are seeking a Staff Grower to add your valuable expertise to our team! It requires a team that takes pride in quality and precision, respect for each other, and the plants we tend. We definitely have room to grow.
Job Responsibilities:
This is a full-time position, with 5 daytime shifts per week, which will include either a Saturday or Sunday shift.
- Maintain plant health and vigor in a large-scale commercial cultivation environment, managing water and nutrient requirements, growing mediums, light requirements, temperature control, airflow, humidity, and so on.
- Skillfully manage cloning, seeding, transplanting, defoliation, topping, trellising, harvesting/trimming, drying, curing, manicuring, waste disposal, etc.
- Diagnose and correct plant nutrient and health conditions for optimal plant health.
- Monitor and oversee on-time plant schedules, inventory and supply to meet crop needs on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
- Ability to learn and work successfully with cannabis regulations, and complex research growing protocols.
- Support and enhance efforts in cost control, waste and energy reduction, quality, and safety.
- Accurately complete data collection and project documentation in compliance with research standards and OLCC requirements.
- Maintain and contribute to a safe working environment, following all safety protocols and OSHA regulations.
Qualifications:
- 2+ years of growing experience in large-scale commercial cultivation facilities.
- Moderate knowledge of the cannabis plant, its growing requirements, and traits.
- Ability to learn and manage Indoor environmental control systems.
- Knowledge of or ability to learn and apply industry rules and regulations.
- Knowledge of techniques for planting, growing, and harvesting cannabis (including storage/handling techniques).
- Experience operating commercial production systems and an understanding of soilless growing methods.
- Ability to plan and operate in both small and large scales.
- Strong organizational skills, including the ability to manage time, set priorities, and handle multiple obligations at the same time. Must also be detail-oriented, independently motivated, and actively promote a clean and orderly environment.
- Ability to effectively share knowledge with other staff.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to work in indoor as well as a general office environment.
- Standing and/or walking for long periods of time doing repetitive tasks. Bending and lifting repeatedly.
- Able to carry up to two 2 gallon pots per hand and one 3 gallon pot per hand when spacing plants. Ability to lift 50+ lbs.
- Good visual acuity, hand-eye coordination, manual dexterity, and the ability to perform repetitive motions with accuracy and manipulate machinery.
- Available for occasional overtime work if needed based on project cycles.
Employment is Contingent on the following:
- Ability to work legally in the US
- A valid OLCC Marijuana Worker Permit. Candidates with a Worker Permit in hand will be considered with priority, but we are open to the right candidate with a permit application in process.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $20.00 per hour with a 90 day review
Expected hours: 40 per week
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Holidays
- Monday to Friday
- Morning shift
- Rotating weekends
- Weekends as needed
- Year round work
Work Location: In person