Cultivation Associate

At Curaleaf, we’re redefining the cannabis industry with a strong commitment to quality, expertise, and innovation. As a leading global cannabis provider, our brands—including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots—offer premium products and services in both medical and adult-use markets.

Join us at Curaleaf to be part of a high-growth, purpose-driven company that champions corporate social responsibility through our Rooted in Good initiative, supporting community outreach and positive change. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact, drive innovation, and help shape the future of cannabis.

Job Title: Cultivation Associate

Pay: $17.00 per hour

Location: Hammonton, NJ

Shift: Monday to Friday - 2PM to 10:30PM

Who You Are:

As our Cultivation Associate, you will be responsible for the day-to-day assignments and tasks that keep our plants healthy to meet our production goals and quality targets on track. These responsibilities include but are not limited to trimming, pruning, debulking, transplanting, canopy manipulation, harvesting, data entry, and overall plant care at our cannabis cultivation facility. This position is also responsible for many of the cleaning, sanitation, and organization tasks of our grow rooms. Our cleaning instruments and chemicals will be required to ensure a sterile and pest-free environment for our plants.

What You’ll Do:

Work with cultivation leadership to plan for growing activities that are consistent with planned production schedules

Prepare space required for planned production

Cloning: cutting, rooting, and transplanting; clone care, watering, and feeding.

Monitor growing conditions and review changes in humidity, moisture, and temperature and cultivation procedures to ensure conformance with quality control standards

Inspect crop to ascertain conditions such as leaf texture, bloom size, and the existence of pests or disease, removing substandard or diseased plants to maintain quality standards

Monitor and care for plants during vegetative and flowering phase

Harvesting: cutting plants; trimming cut plants; removing flowering tops.

Curing: hanging and dry-racking flowers; monitoring curing process and climate control.

Operating and maintaining cultivation systems/equipment

Ensure daily compliance with policies and procedures including but not limited to state compliance, security protocols, and access protocols

Other duties as assigned related to the overall health and efficiency of our cultivation efforts

What You’ll Bring:

A green thumb, a passion for working with plants, and experience with harvesting plants in a work or home setting (gardening, etc.)

Ability to work well with other employees in a fast paced, team environment while contributing to a positive and professional atmosphere

Possess great attention to detail

Ability to learn and execute techniques consistent with company best practices

Even Better If:

You have previous landscaping, horticulture, or agriculture experience

You have strong knowledge of weights and measurements

Physical Requirements Work Environment:

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.

This position has allergen warnings, potential exposure to dust, pollen, and plant pathogens, and requires daily use of provided PPE, such as masks, hair nets, beard covers, respirators, boot covers, scrubs, non-slip shoes, and Tyvek suits as necessary, has exposure to loud noises, including but not limited to air compressors, packaging equipment, and alarms, has exposure to CO2 manufacturing procedures at OSHA approved CO2 levels, requires high-stress tolerance, adaptability, and flexibility, as well as the ability to work in an ever-changing environment.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, use hands to finger or feel, reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb and balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and lift up to 50 lbs.

This position requires close vision, distance vision, color vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Curaleaf Pay Transparency

$17 $17 USD

What We Offer:

Career Growth Opportunities

Competitive Pay and Benefits

Generous PTO and Parental Leave

401(K) Retirement Plan

Life/ Disability Insurance

Community Involvement

Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts

Benefits vary by state, role type, and eligibility.

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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company, and its brands, includin…