About the Role
This hands-on Cultivation Lead role guides day-to-day plant care and harvest operations, ensuring plant health, executing harvest cadence, and supporting training and task coordination. The role involves leading by example, prioritizing tasks, and ensuring accurate documentation and compliance throughout the cultivation cycle.
Responsibilities
- Execute and guide tasks including transplanting, topping, pruning, IPM, and trellising.
- Monitor environmental conditions (temperature, humidity, CO₂) and escalate variances.
- Perform daily visual inspections for plant health and pest detection.
- Ensure watering and fertigation activities align with SOPs and feeding schedules.
- Coordinate and participate in plant cut-downs, fresh frozen harvests, and cured flower harvests.
- Ensure harvest data is logged accurately (strain, wet weight, plant count).
- Maintain proper tagging, batch tracking, and staging procedures.
- Oversee sanitation of harvest tools and rooms between batches.
- Support daily assignments and rotation of cultivation technicians across rooms and tasks.
- Train Tech I and II employees on plant care SOPs and harvest procedures.
- Conduct real-time QC checks for pruning, trellising, and harvest execution.
- Communicate task status, room progress, and labor needs to Supervisor.
- Ensure all plant movements, harvest logs, and environmental readings are documented accurately.
- Support readiness for internal audits or state inspections through accurate recordkeeping.
- Enforce PPE and biosecurity standards to prevent cross-contamination.
Requirements
- Must be 21 years old.
- Must possess a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
- Ability to work a minimum of 10 hours a day and rotating shifts.
- Flexible schedule availability including nights, weekends and holidays.
- Ability to lift, push, and pull 50 pounds.
- Ability to sit, squat, bend, and kneel repetitively throughout a work day.
- Ability to stand for extended periods of time.
- Ability to use a ladder (up to 12 ft. extension) and general hardware tools needed for common repairs.
- Ability and willingness to work in various environments including exposure to fumes, dust, odors, heights, indoor AC, no AC, motion, and noise.
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Basic math skills
- Teamwork
- Organizational skills
- Decision making skills
- Analytical skills
- Detail oriented
- Proactive
Location
- Warwick, NY
Work Type
- Full-time
About the Company
- iAnthus Capital Management provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Equal Opportunity
- This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
