Description
We are seeking a highly motivated, proactive, and detail-oriented Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) Plant Care Associate to join our team in our Research Triangle Park location.
This role will support our research team by assisting with maintenance of our greenhouse facilities. The successful candidate is highly organized, comfortable working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment, and an integral part of a highly collaborative and interdisciplinary team. Excellent communication, record-keeping, and teamwork will be critical.
This role is for a six-month contract with possibility for extension.
Key Responsibilities
- Grow and maintain healthy plants through sowing, germinating, transplanting, watering, fertilizing, pest control, and monitoring of growth conditions
- Help develop, refine, and enforce standard operating procedures
- Assist in CEA set up, build-out, and maintenance of greenhouse area
- Process plant production requests and track plant inventory using internal tracking system
- Support the CEA team by cleaning, bleaching, and maintaining plant production space, equipment, and supplies
- Other duties as assigned
Professional Experience & Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science in horticulture, plant science, or related field
- Basic horticultural skills and 1+ years' experience working with plants in a controlled environment
- Strong understanding of safe greenhouse practices
- Ability to work weekends and occasional holidays as needed
- Ability to lift 50 lbs., work in hot, humid, or bright conditions, and work on your feet for extended lengths of time
- A high level of initiative and good judgment, attention to detail, adaptive and quick learner, efficient in multi-tasking and troubleshooting
- Experience with Microsoft Office, LIMS, various software systems and automated greenhouse controls and irrigation systems such as Argus or Priva