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Cultivation Associate
Have a passion for growing things and want to bring that into a career? Our client — an established name in the cannabis industry — is hiring Cultivation Associates to join their growing team in Smyrna, DE. This is hands-on work at every stage of the plant lifecycle, with real opportunity to build deep cultivation expertise in a well-run, compliance-focused operation.
Pay Rate: $19.50/hr
Location: Smyrna, DE
Shift: Sunday-Thursday or Tuesday-Saturday | 8:00am-5:00pm
Why You'll Love This Role
You'll be part of a team that takes cultivation seriously — from daily plant care to monthly harvest and IPM work — all built around clear SOPs and a genuine commitment to quality. Farming or plant-growing experience is a great fit here, and there's real room to grow your responsibilities as you build your skills.
What You'll Do
Have a passion for growing things and want to bring that into a career? Our client — an established name in the cannabis industry — is hiring Cultivation Associates to join their growing team in Smyrna, DE. This is hands-on work at every stage of the plant lifecycle, with real opportunity to build deep cultivation expertise in a well-run, compliance-focused operation.
Pay Rate: $19.50/hr
Location: Smyrna, DE
Shift: Sunday-Thursday or Tuesday-Saturday | 8:00am-5:00pm
Why You'll Love This Role
You'll be part of a team that takes cultivation seriously — from daily plant care to monthly harvest and IPM work — all built around clear SOPs and a genuine commitment to quality. Farming or plant-growing experience is a great fit here, and there's real room to grow your responsibilities as you build your skills.
What You'll Do
- Complete assigned work each shift and support the management team in keeping cultivation duties on track and consistent with company SOPs
- Start with essential cultivation operations, with responsibilities that expand as you gain experience
- Daily: plant work including big-leaf and bottom stripping in flower rooms, seed-to-sale data entry, sweeping and disinfecting flower/vegetative rooms, disposing of used growing media, prepping rooms for refill, and general cleaning
- Weekly: spot cleaning, flipping flower blocks, consolidating vegetative trays, planting coco cubes, watering, and light maintenance
- Monthly: harvesting and big-leafing, applying predatory insects, hanging sticky cards for IPM monitoring, assisting with on-hand inventory counts and safety meetings, taking clones, and rotating mother plants
- Follow all operational guidelines, safety, security, and sanitation procedures, and SOPs as trained
- Understand and follow GACP/GMP guidelines throughout the facility
- Take on other duties as needed and qualified
- A degree in Horticulture, Plant Science, Agronomy, Plant Biology, or a related field, or at least 2 years of hands-on plant cultivation experience
- Farming experience preferred
- Knowledge of large-scale commercial plant cultivation — nutrient needs, growing media, lighting, temperature control, and airflow
- Experience with compliance/tracking systems
- Advanced knowledge of cannabis plants and genetics
- A proactive, accountable attitude with consistent attention to detail
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to connect with a variety of audiences
- Basic math skills
- Working knowledge of applicable cannabis laws and regulations, along with company policies and SOPs
- Ability to work independently throughout the day per instructions
- Comfort with standard office/computer software (word processing, spreadsheets, databases, email)
- Ability to work effectively with coworkers, management, customers, and government representatives such as facility inspectors
- Must pass background and drug screening
- Must be 21
- There is a badge required to work in cannabis which can take 2-3 weeks for approval
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