Greenhouse Manager - Now Hiring

The ideal Cultivation Manager has great people management skills and experience with automated systems. This person will be responsible for overseeing day-to-day cultivation activities and adjusting workflow and procedures in order to increase yields, efficiency and overall performance. The Cultivation Manager will lead and manage employees, ensuring that production needs are met, things are in full compliance with all state and local regulations, and any procedural problems are addressed and resolved in a timely manner.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Oversee proper techniques related to cultivation; transplanting, pruning, defoliation, watering, feeding, and harvesting.
• Manage plant germination and propagation through cloning efforts.
• Develop and adhere to cultivation schedules to ensure plants are healthy and prepared for the flower process.
• Enforce adherence to fertilization, irrigation, and feed schedules.
• Ensure plants are receiving proper illumination, irrigation, nutrients, pruning, pest and disease control.
• Schedule harvest of plants based on cultivation schedule and plant maturation.
• Ensure that the product is compliant with all relevant regulations and meets all standards established by the state.
• Ensure proper labeling, tagging, and traceability of plants, including plant counts, both physically and in METRC, and correcting plant inventory discrepancies immediately.
• Develop and update SOPs for cultivation and post-harvest processes, enforcing strict adherence throughout the facility.
• Assist with calculating production yields and determining areas of improvement for each harvest.
• Facilitate and oversee inspections using inventory and compliance audits.
• Conduct investigations when necessary - if inventory does not match production and transfer records.
• Monitor stock of cultivation supplies and equipment and work with Procurement to order supplies.
• Prepare reports summarizing harvest yields and conditions.
• Ensure accuracy of inventory.
• Oversee tracking compliance in METRC.
• Stay current with the latest grow solutions and technology. Establish relationships with suppliers as needed.
• Provide job responsibility, HR management and task management for direct reports.
• Follow up from CRC inspections - correcting any issues identified.

Required Skills

Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Plant Sciences and/or Agriculture related disciplines.
• 2 years as a cultivator in a large scale indoor cannabis operation.
• Experience with automated systems (e.g., Priva, Argus, Growlink).
• Experienced with mixed light growing.
• Experience diagnosing, preventing and treating plant health issues.
• Experience creating production schedules.
• Ability to manage people, provide day-to-day supervision, and handle employee related issues.
• Ability to gather, track, and report on agricultural information obtained during harvest tracking.
• Ability to develop and document SOPs.

Physical Demands / Environment

• Available to work during Harvest and Testing activities.
• Available to work 45 hours per 7-day week.
• Available to work weekends when requested.
• Able to lift 30 lbs regularly.

Desired Skills

• Experience overseeing 20,000 square feet or more of canopy.

About Ascend Wellness Holdings

Ascend is a vertically integrated cannabis cultivator, processor and provisioning center operator with assets in Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio. We seek to foster a robust and inclusive cannabis industry through a premium, unmatched customer-focused retail experience. We currently operate a provisioning center in Morenci, Battle Creek and Detroit. We are looking to build a world-class team that will help carry out our mission of helping to shape the future of cannabis as a leading healthcare solution. We are committed to improving the quality of our patient’s lives by offering unrivaled quality, consistency and meticulously curated products that satisfy our customers unique, individual needs. Our provisioning centers will set a new standard of excellence, emphasizing health and wellness. As a team that is committed to our values, our people and our communities, we are looking for people who are inspired by our vision and looking to take roles with us as we expand nationally.

When it comes to customer service experience, our dispensaries will set a new standard of excellence, emphasizing health and wellness. As a team that is committed to our values, our people, and our communities; we are looking for people who are inspired by our vision and stay dedicated to our mission as we scale continuously.

WHY AWH?

Our people are our greatest asset. Our teams are comprised of a group of skilled and passionate professionals and partners from a diverse range of fields. We believe in not only building a diverse team but creating a space where ALL feel welcome and training our leaders to not only be inclusive themselves but to inspire their teams to be the same. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, national origin, age or disability. We believe in providing competitive compensation, quality benefits and a work environment that fosters creativity, hard work and leverage every one of our employees' unique skills while giving them what it takes to advance those said skills and learn new ones. We sweat the details to ensure our teams are confident and excited to provide best in class service to our customers and communities we serve.

Equal opportunity employer

Ascend Wellness Holdings, LLC and its subsidiaries is an equal opportunity employer and celebrate the population of differences and does not discriminate in its hiring / hiring practices, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.