What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cannabis Cultivation Lead position at M1 Enterprises LLC?
Job Summary
The Cultivation Lead overseas the cultivation team, ensuring that all cultivation processes are executed according to the company's operating procedures for indoor cultivation. The Cultivation Lead will manage daily assignments and tasks of the cannabis production cycle, ensuring compliance with company standards and state regulations.
Cultivation Responsibilities:
- Cloning, cutting, and transplanting; watering; labeling; and inventory data input.
- Plant care during vegetative and flowering phases: trimming, manipulating, and staking; big leafing and pruning; watering; plant monitoring; inventory data input.
- Harvesting: Cutting plants; weighing and inventory data input into the electronic inventory tracking system.
- Operating and maintaining cultivation systems/equipment; stocking and handling production inputs and supplies; sanitizing and cleaning growing rooms, cultivation workspaces, and tools.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Team Leadership: Lead, train, and mentor cultivation technicians; ensure all team members follow standard operating procedures and safety protocols.
- Cloning: Cutting, rooting, and transplanting; clone care, watering, and feeding; clone monitoring and climate control; labeling; and inventory data input into the state-mandated electronic tracking system.
- Monitoring Growing Conditions: Reviewing changes in humidity, moisture, and temperature; adjusting cultivation procedures to ensure quality control standards.
- Crop Inspection: Assessing leaf texture, bloom size, and pest/disease presence; removing substandard or diseased plants to maintain quality standards.
- Plant Care includes trimming and staking, big leafing and pruning, watering and feeding, climate control, pest and disease control, and inventory data input.
- Harvesting: Cutting plants; trimming cut plants; removing flowering tops; weighing and inventory data input into the electronic inventory tracking system.
- Curing: Hanging and dry-racking flowers; monitoring the curing process and climate control; labeling; weighing and input of inventory data.
- Equipment Maintenance: Monitoring, calibrating, running, and maintaining lighting, irrigation, climate control, and other cultivation systems; stocking and handling production inputs and supplies; sanitizing and cleaning growing areas, cultivation workspaces, and tools.
- Compliance: Ensuring daily adherence to policies and procedures, including state compliance, security protocols, and access protocols.
- Process Improvement: Identifying areas for process improvements and implementing changes to increase efficiency and product quality.
- Reporting: Preparing and maintaining detailed reports on cultivation activities, plant health, and production metrics.
- Additional Duties: Performing other duties as required to assist the company in meeting its goals.
Qualifications:
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
- Strong work ethic, reliability, and flexibility
- Commitment to producing the highest quality work
- Ability to work in a demanding, fast-paced environment, including flexible and extended hours as needed
