Cultivation Manager

Growing medical and recreational cannabis manufacturers on the East Coast. Our mission is simple: grow the highest-quality weed at prices everyone can afford.

We're looking for passionate people to join us in our mission to democratize cannabis-or as we like to say, to "Weed the People".

With a dialed-in grow operation and a bold new brand refresh, we're ready to dominate the MD/DC market- and have a little fun while we're at it.

The Cultivation Manager is responsible for overseeing daily cultivation and drench operations to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient cannabis production. This role provides leadership to cultivation team members by driving productivity, maintaining quality standards, enforcing SOP compliance, and fostering a positive work environment. The Cultivation Manager supports the Cultivation Department Head through workforce planning, training, scheduling, performance management, and operational oversight, while ensuring plant health, irrigation systems, equipment maintenance, inventory readiness, and production goals are consistently achieved.

This position plays a key role in developing a high-performing team, maintaining regulatory compliance, and ensuring the successful execution of all cultivation processes from propagation through ongoing plant care.

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Maintain safety standards to ensure safe operations in all associated areas.
• Maintain MCA compliance and District Cannabis production standards.
• Responsible for following all standard operating procedures (SOP) operational guidelines, verbal directives, training information, and policies when performing duties.
• Ensure equipment maintenance and cleaning logs are completed and accurate.
• Collaborate in building a well-developed, high-performing, and cohesive team.
• Encourage a healthy work environment.
• Assist in training team members on a reoccurring basis to ensure company standards are communicated clearly.
• Complete scheduling on a weekly basis utilizing District Cannabis production calendar.
• Motivate staff to ensure production goals are met.
• Monitor team's quality, efficiency, consistency, output, and performance and report on individual progress.
• Ensure coverage in all associated departments to ensure production goals are achievable.
• Place materials orders in a timely manner to ensure teams have adequate supplies.
• Ensure work orders for damaged equipment are placed in a timely manner.
• Report problems, accidents, unsafe conditions, or equipment trouble to management.

• Cultivation:
  Oversee all cultivation processes to ensure the team follows SOPs including cloning, clone care, transplanting, defoliation, tagging, and data logs
• Drench:
  Oversee plant movements during drench applications to ensure SOPS are being followed accurately including both manual and automated drench applications. Ensure defoliation is completed accurately and to standards and plants are correctly loaded and connected back to irrigation following the day's workflow.
• Report any plant health abnormalities to Cultivation Department Head immediately after observations are made.
• Maintain accurate sensor tracking for irrigation strategy
• Maintains irrigation equipment including routine upkeep and performs minor corrective repair work.
• Maintains cultivation environment by cleaning and sanitizing workspace on a daily basis.
• Develops basic knowledge of strain characteristics and performs quality assessment of plants.

• Collaborate effectively with the Human Resources Department and appropriate partners to implement and manage the company's policies and procedures.
• Partner with the Human Resources Department to monitor staff performance, provide timely feedback, along with development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, and conduct annual performance evaluations.
• Retain and develop top performers by understanding individual's motivations and providing actionable feedback.
• Addresses low performance quickly, compassionately, and in alignment with company policies.
• Manage employee's scheduling, basic time off requests, performance reviews, etc.

All other duties as necessary.

• For legal reasons, all employees need to be at least 21 years of age.
• You will be asked to pass a Federal and State criminal history background check.
• We ask that you have at least a high school…