Cultivation Manager

Cultivation Manager

The Cultivation Manager is responsible for overseeing daily cultivation and drench operations to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient cannabis production. This role provides leadership to cultivation team members by driving productivity, maintaining quality standards, enforcing SOP compliance, and fostering a positive work environment. The Cultivation Manager supports the Cultivation Department Head through workforce planning, training, scheduling, performance management, and operational oversight, while ensuring plant health, irrigation systems, equipment maintenance, inventory readiness, and production goals are consistently achieved. This position plays a key role in developing a high-performing team, maintaining regulatory compliance, and ensuring the successful execution of all cultivation processes from propagation through ongoing plant care.

Your role in caring for our company:

The essential functions include, but are not limited to the following:

• Maintain safety standards to ensure safe operations in all associated areas.
• Maintain MCA compliance and District Cannabis production standards.
• Responsible for following all standard operating procedures (SOP) operational guidelines, verbal directives, training information, and policies when performing duties.
• Ensure equipment maintenance and cleaning logs are completed and accurate.
• Collaborate in building a well-developed, high-performing, and cohesive team.
• Encourage a healthy work environment.
• Assist in training team members on a reoccurring basis to ensure company standards are communicated clearly.
• Complete scheduling on a weekly basis utilizing District Cannabis production calendar.
• Motivate staff to ensure production goals are met.
• Monitor team's quality, efficiency, consistency, output, and performance and report on individual progress.
• Ensure coverage in all associated departments to ensure production goals are achievable.
• Place materials orders in a timely manner to ensure teams have adequate supplies.
• Ensure work orders for damaged equipment are placed in a timely manner.
• Report problems, accidents, unsafe conditions, or equipment trouble to management.

Process Specific Responsibilities:

• Cultivation: Oversee all cultivation processes to ensure the team follows SOPs including cloning, clone care, transplanting, defoliation, tagging, and data logs
• Drench: Oversee plant movements during drench applications to ensure SOPS are being followed accurately including both manual and automated drench applications. Ensure defoliation is completed accurately and to standards and plants are correctly loaded and connected back to irrigation following the day's workflow.
• Report any plant health abnormalities to Cultivation Department Head immediately after observations are made.
• Maintain accurate sensor tracking for irrigation strategy
• Maintains irrigation equipment including routine upkeep and performs minor corrective repair work.
• Maintains cultivation environment by cleaning and sanitizing workspace on a daily basis.
• Develops basic knowledge of strain characteristics and performs quality assessment of plants.

Team Leadership & Performance Analytics

• Collaborate effectively with the Human Resources Department and appropriate partners to implement and manage the company's policies and procedures.
• Partner with the Human Resources Department to monitor staff performance, provide timely feedback, along with development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, and conduct annual performance evaluations.
• Retain and develop top performers by understanding individual's motivations and providing actionable feedback.
• Addresses low performance quickly, compassionately, and in alignment with company policies.
• Manage employee's scheduling, basic time off requests, performance reviews, etc.

All other duties as necessary.

Qualifications we ask you to have:

• For legal reasons, all employees need to be at least 21 years of age.
• You will be asked to pass a Federal and State criminal history background check.
• We ask that you have at least a high school diploma/GED.
• We ask that you have a minimum of five (5) years of management experience.
• We ask that you have at least three (3) years of industry experience, preferably leadership experience relating to cultivation/agriculture/horticulture.
• Must be able to regularly handle plant materials and use nitrile gloves; this position requires daily exposure to cannabis plants and nitrile gloves.
• You are willing and able to step over 28-inch-tall rails.

Additional skills which will help you excel in your role:

• Strong attention to detail, our plants are very delicate throughout their lifecycle!
• Flexibility to accommodate scheduling demands including some weekends and applicable holidays.
• Desire and ability to work as a member of a team in multiple settings and environments.
• Ability to foster collaboration, be a team player, though also independent and self-motivated.
• Proactive, accountable, and observant in the teams daily work.
• Coachable and can take full ownership of personal development, regularly soliciting feedback from teammates including those supervising, colleagues, and supervisor/s.
• Ability to work at a fast pace in a high production environment!
• Ability to remain calm in high-pressure situations.
• Comply with all HR policies including confidentiality and non-disclosure.
• Maintain open communication with the management team and other co-workers.
• Strong work ethic, integrity, and desire to be accountable, transparent, and proactive.
• A passion for the cannabis culture.

Work Schedule/Location:

• On-site 5 days a week with potential need to flex hours based on company needs for evenings and weekends.

Please make sure you are willing and able to perform the following:

Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• This position requires an inordinate amount of sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting and reaching in full range of motion to complete physical tasks.
• Must be capable of sitting for extended periods of time, lift objects on a regular basis, and perform daily repetitive tasks.
• This position requires the ability to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. unassisted and up to 80lbs assisted.
• As this is a cannabis growing facility, there will be strong odors, bright lights, and various noises throughout the workday.
• Please be comfortable, willing, and able to work in an environment with high light levels.
• Employees are asked to wear scrubs, masks, gloves, and hairnets while working with the plants. DCM will provide scrubs, gloves, and hair nets to all employees.

Our Benefits

• Health Insurance: Medical, Dental & Vision
• Employee Assistance Plan
• Short-Term Disability
• Life Insurance AD&D
• 401K
• DCM Product/Merch Discounts
• Paid Time Off
• Competitive pay
• Industry Discounts

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action

DCM Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. DCM Inc. is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at DCM Inc. are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, HIV status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. DCM Inc. will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.