WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Responsible to complete any work assigned during scheduled shifts.
• 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.
• Daily responsibilities include: plant work, and specifically (but not exclusively) big leaf and bottom stripping in flower rooms, seed-to-sale tracking data input, sweeping and disinfecting flower/vegetative rooms, disposing of used growing media, preparing rooms for a refill, and all general cleaning.
• Weekly responsibilities include: spot cleaning, flipping flower blocks, consolidating vegetative trays, planting coco cubes, watering, and light maintenance.
• Monthly responsibilities include: harvesting and big leafing, applying predatory insects, hanging sticky cards for IPM monitoring, helping with monthly on-hand inventory counts, assisting with safety meetings, taking clones, and rotating mother plants.
• Responsible to follow all applicable operational guidelines, comply with verbal directives, and practice and/or implement all safety, security, sanitation, policies, procedures, rules, skills, and the like presented during training, by management, in Standard Operating Procedures, or otherwise when performing job duties.
• Responsible to understand and follow all GACP/GMP guidelines throughout the facility.
• Perform such other duties as employee is qualified to perform and may be assigned.
  
  
• Irrigation & Fertigation
• Clean, Prepare, and mix fertilizer stock tanks to ensure consistent nutrient application.
• Monitor media moisture levels, runoff/EC/pH, and system performance to ensure consistent nutrient delivery.
• Perform room walkthroughs to safeguard against irrigation abnormalities such as dry or oversaturated plants. 
• Assist with troubleshooting and light maintenance of irrigation systems including but not limited to filters, valves, emitters, pipes, and sensors.
  
  
Integrated Pest Management (IPM)
• Conduct routine scouting of all growth stages for pests, disease, nutrient issues, and environmental stressors.
• Accurately and succinctly document all scouting activities and findings into the QuickBase scouting form.
• Must Pass a respirator fit test evaluation.
• Must Apply IPM treatments including foliar sprays, drenches, and biological control agents (BCAs).
• Assist with maintaining and improving sanitation and biosecurity practices to support pest and disease prevention.
• Immediately report plant health trends or concerns to management.
• Ensure all applications and activities are compliant with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of assigned cultivation areas, including irrigation and spray equipment, grow rooms and tables.
 

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• Degree in Horticulture, Plant Science, Agronomy, Plant Biology, or related field, or a minimum of 2 years of experience cultivating plants, or registered in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Pharmacy Technician
• Must pass background and drug screening
• Knowledge of large-scale commercial plant cultivation, including but not limited to, nutrient requirements, growing media, light requirements, temperature control, and airflow.
• Experience with compliance systems.
• Advanced cannabis plant and genetics knowledge.
• Must accept accountability, have a proactive attitude, and demonstrate consistent attention to detail.
• Active listening and effective verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate to a variety of audiences, are critical.
• Basic math skills are necessary.
• Basic understanding of applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, and particularly those governing cannabis, and organizational rules, directives, and Standard Operating Procedures.
• Ability to work independently throughout the day in accordance with instructions.
• Ability to use standard office equipment, and particularly computer equipment and software such as word processing, database management, spreadsheet applications, and electronic mail.
• Ability to work effectively with other employees, management, customers, government representatives such as facility inspectors