Lead Cultivation Agent

The role

The Lead Cultivation Agent manages cultivation staff, schedules, processes, and inventory. This person oversees cultivation tasks, ensures proper documentation, and maintains plant health through various cultivation techniques.

What you will do

• Manage cultivation staff, schedules, processes, and inventory.
• Serve as a role-model and resource for staff regarding products, policies, and regulations.
• Respond to gardener questions and resolve conflicts.
• Delegate tasks to gardeners and harvest technicians.
• Coordinate with the Garden Manager.
• Oversee all cultivation tasks and ensure proper documentation.
• Measure, mix, and apply nutrient and plant applications.
• Ensure plant health by pruning, topping, trimming, and analyzing health.
• Maintain rotation of strains through the garden.
• Maintain accurate records of cultivation activities and inventory.

Required qualifications

• Effective time-management, organizational skills, and ability to multi-task
• Advanced knowledge of plant cultivation and cultivation facility operations
• Computer literacy in word processing, point-of-sale systems, windows-based software, and data base management
• Knowledge of medical cannabis policy and law
• Critical-thinking, problem-solving, planning and assessment skills
• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing and challenging environment
• Requires work around plant material, which could include exposure to plant pollen and/or dust
• Requires ability to sit, stand, kneel, and/or do repetitive actions with your hands for long periods of time
• Requires ability to lift up to 50 lbs to torso level

Nice to have

• Demonstrated experience training, leading and/or mentoring junior staff or new hires
• Demonstrated experience overseeing a large-scale agriculture facility
• Two years’ experience within a production facility, regulated field highly preferred

Benefits

• Major medical, dental and vision insurance
• 401(K)-match program
• FSA/HSA programs
• LTD/STD options
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off
• Annual discretionary bonuses
• Stock options
• Employee discount program

Before you apply

• Must be 21 years of age or older to apply
• Must comply with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry
• The company does not offer employment-based visa sponsorship for this role
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship

About the company

Cresco Labs is one of the largest public, vertically integrated, multistate operators in the cannabis industry. Their mission is to normalize and professionalize cannabis through their employees.