Shift New Mexico Production Assistant Job Description
Position Description
To facilitate garden operations within the company’s production facility to include the consistent monitoring of cultivation room environment variables, plant health diagnostics, watering, fertilizing, pest mitigation, exhaust and lighting maintenance, and other relative duties pertaining to the maintenance and upkeep of medical marijuana cultivation. The Cultivation Assistant are also expected to follow and implement a conscientious healthcare management model, striving to operate under the highest standards of patient care and professionalism.
Skills and Qualifications
Production Assistants need to be a self-motivated, critical thinker, efficiency focused, and always considering patient needs.In addition, the ideal Cultivation Assistant will be solutions oriented, results driven, and excels in completing tasks according to a strict schedule.Furthermore, Shift New Mexico expects Cultivation Assistant to possess a high level of marijuana plant science knowledge including the ability to diagnose abiotic stresses, identify pests throughout the cultivation cycle and maintain a plant-nutrition schedule that considers each stage of plant life and enhances medicinal components of each strain varietal. Cultivation Assistants are responsible for lifting up to 50 lbs. on a regular basis, as well as relying on full extension of the legs and arms to reach items and fulfill many garden duties.
Responsibilities & Expectations
Facilitates plant nutrition schedules by combining synthetic nutrients with natural biologic additives. In addition, Cultivation Assistants are responsible for maintaining clean and orderly storage areas including fire-safe lockable storage cabinets.
Follows and completes production plan by transplanting selected plants, moving plants between cultivation rooms, preparing propagation tools, and cutting selected plants for clones
Maintains an even growth pattern atop plant canopies. Furthermore, Cultivation Assistants must be diligent in pruning, staking, preparing trellis material for support and trouble-shooting structural complications to ensure plants are encompassing the maximum amount of light possible.
Ensures that Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is properly applied and used depending on the task and ensures that inventory levels of PPE are sufficient to complete garden tasks.
Achieves production objectives by conducting garden procedures in accordance to production operations management schedules, programs and implementations
Identifies plant health issues including but not limited to abiotic stresses (nutrition, lighting, watering abnormalities), insects, molds, and diseases.
Collects and analyzes water effluent to ensure runoff from irrigation is within acceptable ranges of pH and parts per million parameters set forth by their Manager
Applies water to plants via drip system or by hand, depending on the cultivation methodology or temporary spot-watering need. Additionally, Cultivation Assistants must attend to irrigation drippers to ensure they are functioning properly and applying water evenly to each plant.
Ensures all plant waste accrued by pruning or otherwise created is weighed, recorded and destroyed in compliance to all state and local municipality regulations.
Maintains pesticide application logs that document the time and date of application and the appropriate Re-entry interval (REI). Furthermore, Cultivation Assistants must not re-enter a room before that interval has expired to preserve worker and environmental health.
Identifies and records daily in a logbook the environmental conditions of each cultivation room, including the 24 hr. high and low temperatures, humidity level, and average temperature.
Adjusts cultivation equipment pertaining to humidity, heating and airflow including humidifiers, thermostats and oscillating fans.
Secures growing marijuana plants by implementing and abiding by Shift New Mexico security and safety protocols.In addition, Cultivation Assistants will protect themselves and other employees by providing a safe and clean workplace environment.
Completes facility maintenance tasks as needed and troubleshoots operational and technological issues as they arise within the cultivation facility.
Ensures the stability and reputation of the production facility by complying with all legal requirements.
Assists State and Local government regulators, auditors, and law enforcement agents with inspection visits and information requests.
Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
Creates and revises transplant record-keeping systems that aid in computer data entry
Utilizes required production tracking software programs and responsible for accuracy of inventory, compliance reports, and all other aspects of the software programs.
Assists in harvesting, trimming, and packaging work as necessary.
Job Type: Full-time
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