Lead Nursery Technician

The Role

As the Lead Nursery Technician, you will lead a team of employees who are responsible for maintaining the vegetation cycle of all sustainable plants within a cannabis cultivation and manufacturing facility, in turn playing a role in creating exceptional cannabis products for our patients and consumers to enjoy. This role will ensure the highest quality products and highest standards of compliance are met, while keeping a keen eye on cleanliness and efficiency of the production area and supporting a world-class work environment and culture. In doing so, you'll help advance Green Thumb's mission of promoting wellbeing through the power of cannabis!

Responsibilities

Essential Functions :

• Lead team in the care of plants in the vegetative state in either the mom, clone, or veg rooms.
• Lead by example in the execution of daily tasks including but not limited to transplanting, cutting clones, watering, trimming, bottoming, topping, pruning and defoliating.
• Communicate goals and maintain tracking of performance.
• Complete KPI's, record keeping and other required performance metrics.
• Direct labor to achieve daily goals and efficiency targets
• Create and follow department specific work instructions and SOP's
• Develop deep technical knowledge for the department and transition that knowledge into work instructions, SOP's, visual guides, etc.
• Develop strong cannabis strain-specific knowledge in order to identify growth patterns and identify anomalies.
• Ensure the consistent execution of new employee training or retraining as needed, in turn completing all training documentation
• Successfully mentor and develop strong team members, providing coaching in real time.
• Accurately track both product and waste electronically in the state traceability system.
• Investigate and report all incidents (accidents, near miss, poor performance, etc).
• Lead daily communication meetings, including action item tracking as directed by management.
• Direct the team - directing, scheduling & leading the team to complete daily, weekly, monthly and annual production goals.
• Escalate issues to direct Supervisor, Operations Manager and HR as appropriate.
• Help create a positive environment by having a positive attitude and by being self-motivated.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor and / or Operations Manager, including performing tasks in other Cultivation areas as the needs of the operation dictate.

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