Want to make a meaningful difference in peoples’ lives while earning a competitive salary? At Jushi, we are shaping the future of the cannabis industry, the fastest growing jobs sector in the U.S. The Cultivation Lead position provides oversight to the Cultivation Technicians and specified rooms to support the activities and operations of the Cultivation Department while abiding by all applicable policies, procedures, and operational guidelines. This position is generally responsible for maintaining productivity, safety, and quality in Cultivation operations for one or more rooms in the cultivation department.
Responsibilities:
- Complete any work assigned during scheduled shifts.
- Provide leadership to the Cultivation Technicians to ensure cultivation duties are efficiently and timely completed in a manner consistent with the company’s Standard Operating Procedure for each duty.
- Maintain the schedule for plant work, light and fertigation changes, biological predator application, and harvest in designated room.
- Oversee and carry out plant work, including big leaf and bottom stripping in flower rooms.
- Enforce safety standards, GMP guidelines, and approved procedures with Cultivation Technicians during day-to-day work.
- Maintain seed-to-sale tracking data input, sweeping and disinfecting flower/vegetative rooms, disposing of used growing media, preparing rooms for a refill, and general cleaning.
- Supervise data collection, spot cleaning, flipping flower blocks, consolidating vegetative trays, planting coco cubes, watering, and light maintenance.
- Supervise and participate in harvesting, big leafing, applying predatory insects, hanging sticky cards for IPM monitoring, monthly on-hand inventory counts, assisting with safety meetings, taking clones, and rotating mother plants.
- Follow all applicable operational guidelines, comply with verbal directives, and practice all safety, security, sanitation, policies, procedures, rules, and skills presented during training, by management, in Standard Operating Procedures, or otherwise.
- Understand and follow all GACP/GMP guidelines throughout the facility.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Experience:
- Knowledge of large-scale commercial plant cultivation, including nutrient requirements, growing media, light requirements, temperature control, and airflow.
- Experience with compliance systems.
- Experience directing teams of people on daily responsibilities.
- Advanced cannabis plant and genetics knowledge.
- Proactive attitude with consistent attention to detail.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Basic math skills.
- Basic understanding of applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations governing cannabis.
- Ability to work independently in accordance with instructions.
- Ability to use standard office equipment and software.
- Ability to work effectively with other employees, management, customers, and government representatives.
Education:
- 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.
Note: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
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