Temporary Cultivation Worker
Do you like working with plants? If so, this may be the opportunity for you!
Overall Job Purpose:
Working closely with the Team Leads and Plant Technicians, Temporary Cultivation Workers are responsible for the care and lifecycle of cannabis plants in Tissue Culture, Indoor, Greenhouse, and Harvest environments. A Temporary Cultivation Worker performs all tasks to support growing processes, including, but not limited to; cloning, trimming, transplanting, and harvesting.
This is a hardworking, hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves environment emphasizing a team-oriented and collaborative style. It will be key for the candidate to embrace change and see past obstacles with a focus on solutions in the context of a company undergoing rapid growth and ongoing functional integration.
Responsibilities, including but not limited to:
- Supports team leadership in the overall plant care
- Perform all the tasks in the growing process according to the master schedule
- Assisting in various cultivation tasks as assigned
- Cloning
- Cutting and sticking clones
- Transplanting clone in accordance with production schedule
- Label plants according to company standards and policies
- Prune mother plants after cloning
- Trimming and Pruning
- Prunes plants in both vegetative and flowering stages to produce healthy, high-yielding plants in accords with the leaderships direction
- Trellising
- Apply netting to crop at specific growth stages
- Repopulating Grow Rooms
- Moving plants into grow rooms in a time efficient, careful manner
- Harvest
- Running and cleaning Twister machines and other tools and equipment
- Conducting hand-trimming processes as required
- Protect the overall quality of the product by recognizing defects and handling them appropriately
- Cloning
- Completing daily/weekly/monthly cleaning and deep cleaning tasks as assigned
- Deep cleaning indoor grow rooms between crops
- Supporting Tissue Culture activities as required
- Manage and account for all inventory and supplies
- Maintain a clean and organized work environment
- Manage and proactively solve any production issues that may occur
- Follow all company Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to maintain compliance with FIGR and Health Canada regulations
- Participate in the company Health & Safety Program and comply with all health and safety related policies and processes
- Other duties as required
Job Details:
Rate of Pay: $17.00 per hour
Position Status: Full-Time, Hourly, 3-month Temporary Contract Position
Schedule: Regularly 7:00am-3:30pm Monday-Friday (subject to change and occasional additional shiftwork as per operational requirements)
Psychological Demands:
- Must be able to complete duties with minimal supervision and comfortable working independently and safely in a group environment
- Must be willing/able to work in a social environment
- Must be comfortable with completing highly repetitive tasks with focused attention
- Fast-paced, production-focused role
Physical Demands:
- Ability to perform physical tasks required for an 8-hour shift period, including but not limited to: pushing, pulling, lifting (up to 50lbs), standing, walking, sitting for prolonged periods of time
- Ability to wear assigned Personal Protective Equipment including, but not limited to medical gloves, safety eyewear, face masks, half-mask respirator, etc.
- For half-masked respirator your face will need to be clean shaven
- This position will involve exposure to fresh cannabis/plant materials and is therefore not likely suitable for anyone that may suffer from allergies to cannabis or plant pollen, or for anyone that experiences medical issues as a result of exposure to cannabis/plant materials
Environmental Demands:
- Must be willing and able to work in environments with variable temperature (indoor and outdoor) and humidity, and variable lighting.
- Harvest Area: loud machinery, cool environment regularly (approx. 17° Celsius),
- Greenhouse: high heat and humidity (30+ degrees/55+ humidity), bright LED lighting
- Indoor: high heat and humidity (25+ degrees/55+ humidity), bright LED lighting
- Tissue Culture: clean laboratory
- Must be able to work in an environment that uses cleaning products including, but not limited to, Simple Green, AM 717, Caustek Free, Powerquat, and Isopropyl Alcohol.
- Strong scent of fresh cannabis plants
The ideal candidate has:
- High School Diploma or equivalent experience
- Horticulture/agriculture education or experience is preferred
- A positive attitude and enjoys working in a team
- Meticulous attention to detail in repetitive tasks
- The ability to work in a results-oriented, time-sensitive environment
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal, to work effectively with all levels of employees and management
- Access to reliable transportation to work full-time hours as scheduled (40 hours per week)
- Must have the ability to provide a criminal record check that is clear of any charges that could be related or have a direct correlation to the position or company
- All employees must be 19+
Please apply by midnight on March 30, 2025. Only those successful will be contacted for next steps. Applications will not be accepted on-site.
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