Indoor Farm Laborer - Grow Room Assistant I

Job Title: Indoor Farm Laborer - Grow Room Assistant I

Reports To: Team Lead and Head Grower

FLSA Status & Rate: Non-Exempt ($18 - $20 per hour)

Summary:

Plants, trims and harvests cannabis plants using industry best indoor growing practices, especially with regard to ensuring compliance and worker safety. This is a highly physical job with duties including planting, transplanting and harvesting cannabis plants and cleaning operating equipment when necessary. Additionally, this position may be required to work with and learn about other farm functional areas to ensure operations run smoothly by performing the following duties.

Duties and responsibilities pertain to Growing Operations:
1. Harvesting growing systems - tasks may include:
a. Pre-harvest setup activities - preparing harvest tables, locating and prepping tools, waste bins, product bins, pre-harvest cleaning activities and documenting activities in accordance with Compliance safety protocols. *
b. Board runner activities - removing grow boards from the system and carry to harvest rack; removing harvested boards from the harvest rack and stacking for transport into the clean room. *
c. Harvest cutter activities - Using a knife, removing product from the grow boards and placing on Quality Control (QC) table for measurement into Metrc. *
d. Harvest Quality Control - inspecting each product for contamination, mold or "A" grade. Ensures constant care in the harvest process to optimize quality, increase efficiencies and yields and reduce loss and waste. *
2. Grow room cleaning - tasks may include:
a. Post-harvest/post-packaging cleaning activities - cleaning harvest and weighing tables, dry racks, tools and area using both manual and automated equipment. Cleaning grow system(s) and getting them ready for transplants. Follows chemical usage protocols and safety including wearing appropriate safety gear. *
3. Transplanting - tasks may include:
a. Transplanting activities - transporting seedlings from nursery and transplanting onto grow boards. Taking fully loaded grow boards and hanging on grow system(s). *

Duties and responsibilities pertain to Washroom Operations:
1. Washroom - tasks may include:
a. Pressure washer operation - running a gas-powered pressure washer on all other materials to clean and prep for reuse. Follows chemical usage protocols and safety including wearing appropriate safety gear. *
b. Hand washing - using the 4 step cleaning process to clean/sanitize equipment (such as flats) that cannot be done using the pressure washer. *Duties and responsibilities pertain to Proc Room

Operations:
1. Processing room - tasks may include:
a. Pre-processing activities - erecting boxes, labeling boxes, prepping area prior to joint machine run.
b. Final product inspection, boxing and labeling activities - inspect each finished bagged product to ensure specifications are met prior to placing in case. *
c. Line feeding activities - grinding the product, bucking the product, feeding a predetermined amount of product on conveyor to start the processing line*
d. Cooler preparation activities - bringing finished cases into cooler and assisting cooler lead with organizing pallets for shipping to customers. *
e. Post-production organizing and cleaning activities - organizing the boxing and bagging area postproduction to ensure area is ready to clean down; perform general cleaning activities in boxing, bagging and processing room to prep for cleaning team to wash down each area. *

Other duties and responsibilities include:
1. Depending on skills, experience and level of comfort, may be asked to assist with light assembly or construction work as need arises. Can involve the use of hand and/or power tools, climbing ladders and working 4 to 10 feet in the air.
2. Recommends changes to improve Compliance safety and employee safety. *
3. Contributes to team as well as company efforts by accomplishing results in a cooperative and supportive manner. *
4. Embodies Faribo Green values of engagement, empowerment and gratitude. *
5. Assists with other duties for the good of co-workers and the business.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience:

*Essential FunctionHigh school diploma or general education degree (GED); or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Other Abilities:
Organizational skills
Problem solving skills
Ability to develop and implement plans, procedures, and processes to accomplish a goal
Written and verbal communication skills
Knowledge of nursery operations and equipment preferred, especially as it applies to harvesting food products in a soil-less controlled agricultural environment
Experience with food cleaning processes and equipment packaging processes is preferred

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus, and ability to see color.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee will work indoors; however, they may be required to work outside the facility building when cleaning or helping with loading packaged products. May be required to work different shifts according to facility needs and seasonal production schedules.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather). The employee is frequently exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to work in high, precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outdoor weather conditions, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

EOE
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