**The Role** The Nursery Technician is responsible for maintaining the vegetation cycle of all sustainable plants within the facility. Cannabis is a heavily regulated industry; therefore, all employees are required to follow safety and compliance regulations. **Essential Functions:** - Caring for plants in the vegetative state in either the mom, clone, or veg room. - Tasks may include transplanting, cutting clones, watering, trimming, bottoming, topping, pruning, defoliating, etc. - The ability to recognize requirements associated with the strain, growth patterns and identify anomalies within the plants. - Depending on Cultivation needs, you may need to participate in all aspects of plant maintenance. - Reporting any issues to Leadership to ensure a timely fix or solution if problems arise. - Use dexterity, coordination, and precision to perform tasks that require manual manipulation to perform plant maintenance activities, including defoliation, pruning, and other activities as required. - Meet production goals while maintaining an elevated level of performance, safety, and quality. - Maintain open communication with the Leadership team and co-workers. - Cleans and sanitizes all flower rooms, benches, irrigation systems, etc., to ensure cleanliness. - The ability to interpret and follow cultivation schedules. - Follow department-specific work instructions and SOPs. **Safety & Compliance:** - Be aware of hazards in the workspace. - Retain and understand department-specific training. - Report safety incidents/ concerns and comply with follow-up actions. - Be compliant with area safety requirements, state regulations, and PPE requirements. - Follow GMP, biosecurity, sanitation, or other quality and compliance requirements. - Perform record keeping accurately and completely as directed by a lead or supervisor. - Maintain and calibrate tools, equipment, and machinery as directed by a lead or supervisor. - Report and escalate safety & quality concerns. **Working Conditions** - While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to perform reaching, grasping, bending, stooping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions. - Must be able to repetitively climb ladders and/or stairs and work from elevated platforms. - Must be able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time while maintaining focus. - Must be able to lift, carry, and balance up to 50 pounds AND must be able to do so with extreme care and caution when working with product. - Must be able to work in an environment that is 85+ degrees and 70% humidity for extended periods. - Must be able to work at heights. - Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing, and challenging environment. - Work involves daily exposure to allergens (such as cannabis, tree nuts, and coconut oil). **Qualifications** - Minimum of a high school diploma. GED, or an associate degree, or certifications preferred. - Prior experience in manufacturing or fa ast-paced environment - Prior cannabis experience is not required - Ability to utilize simple math for calculations. - High focus and attention to detail. - Perform any additional tasks assigned by a manager or lead. - Additional Requirements - Must be at a minimum of 21 years of age. - Must possess valid state ID. - Must be able to obtain and maintain state badging requirements to work in in cannabis industry (requires background check and state review) _About Vangst:_ _Vangst is the cannabis industry's hiring platform. Vangst helps cannabis companies find the talent they need to grow their business. From on-demand gig workers to trained & credential full-time employees, Vangst has built the industry's go-to talent marketplace for all cannabis hiring. Vangst is proud to work with 1,200+ of the cannabis industry's leading businesses._ _Since raising their seed round in 2018, Vangst has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the cannabis industry and was recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies._ _Today, over 300,000 people have full-time jobs in the cannabis industry and this number is expected to triple over the next five years. Vangst is on a mission to fill every job in the cannabis industry_ _Vangst's headquarters is in Denver, CO. Vangst is a Series B company and backed by Lerer Hippeau, Colle Capital, Level One Fund, Snoop Dogg's Casa Verde Capital, and others._ _Vangst 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._ _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._