Cultivation Manager

Position Summary
The Cultivation Manager is responsible for overseeing daily cultivation operations. This hands-on leadership role manages the full crop cycle from propagation through harvest while ensuring production targets, quality standards, regulatory compliance, safety, and company objectives are met.

Essential Functions

• Manage the complete plant lifecycle, including propagation, vegetative growth, flowering, harvesting, and coordination with post-harvest operations.
• Develop and maintain production schedules, harvest calendars, crop rotations, and staffing plans.
• Monitor plant health, environmental conditions, nutrient programs, irrigation, lighting, HVAC, humidity, and CO₂.
• Implement and maintain Integrated Pest Management (IPM) programs and address pests, mold, disease, and plant deficiencies
• Accountable for key performance indicators including yield, labor, inventory, quality, safety, production costs, and on-time delivery.
• Maintain accurate production reporting, environmental data, plant records, and inventory tracking through METRC and other systems.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable state and local cannabis regulations and company policies.
• Maintain facility readiness for regulatory inspections, audits, and testing.
• Ensure SOPs and best practices are followed and recommend updates to improve efficiency, quality, and consistency.
• Recruit, train, mentor, and manage cultivation employees while maintaining a positive, safe, and accountable work environment.
• Work closely with the other departments to support production goals.
• Identify operational issues, implement corrective actions, and provide recommendations to management to improve productivity and results.

Skills Required to Perform the Job

• Advanced knowledge of plant science, horticulture, nutrition, and commercial cultivation.
• Experience with indoor hydroponic or greenhouse cultivation preferred.
• Strong knowledge of IPM, environmental controls, irrigation, and nutrient management.
• Proven ability to manage a large-scale cultivation or agricultural operation.
• Strong communication, leadership, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage diverse teams while maintaining productivity, quality, safety, and a positive work environment.
• Hands-on leadership style.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and METRC.
• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.
• Physical Environment/Working Conditions
• Must be able to stand, walk, bend, reach, and perform repetitive tasks for extended periods.
• Must be able to work in a warehouse, cultivation, and production environment.
• May occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• May be exposed to warm, humid, or bright environments.

Supervisory Responsibility:

• The Cultivation Manager oversees the cultivation team and is responsible for training, development, performance, scheduling, and day-to-day direction of cultivation personnel.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Horticulture, Botany, Agronomy, Plant Science, or a related field preferred, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum 3–5 years of commercial cannabis, agricultural, or large-scale cultivation experience preferred.
• Minimum 2 years of supervisory or management experience in a commercial cultivation or agricultural environment.
• Experience with process control, cost management, and cost-containment strategies

Pay: $95,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance

Work Location: In person