| Processing Technician |  |
Jan 4, 2023🔗 👁️ 175 175 Views
🏢 WholesomeCo Cannabis 📍 Centerville, UT
💰 DOE 🗓️ Full-time 🏷️ Processing 📛 No license required
About our company
WholesomeCo is leading the movement to normalize cannabis as a natural path to health and wellness. Various medical cannabis services are offered by the company, including statewide delivery to 99% of Utah's population, as well as retail, drive-thru, and online pick-up services through its pharmacy in West Bountiful. Known for its technology-driven leadership and innovation, WholesomeCo is committed to improving medical cannabis accessibility by putting patients' needs first and guiding them along their personal cannabis journeys.
Job description
This Processing Agent role will either be for Trimming or Packaging. Individuals hired for this role may need to travel temporarily to Salt Lake City, Utah, the first few weeks of employment. Long-term this position will be in Centerville starting in October.
Benefits:
- 60% employer-paid total of the medical insurance premium, if elected
- 75% employer-paid total total of the dental insurance premium, if elected
- 75% employer-paid total total of the vision insurance premium, if elected
- 401(k) with up to a 4% match, if elected
- Health savings account with up to a $150 match per month.
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP), if medical insurance is elected
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Paid lunch breaks
Responsibilities - Trimming:
- Maintain a positive attitude that promotes teamwork
- Take direction from management
- Perform the duties of the position in a safe and efficient manner
- Ability to work on your own or with a team depending on the task
- Maintain a clean and safe workspace throughout your shift
- Clean and reset processing equipment at the end of each shift
- Follow safety guidelines and PPE requirements
- Accurately follow standard operating procedures for each process being performed, as well as being observant and offering suggestions on how to improve these processes
- Set goals and meet deadlines
- Engage in industry education and professional development, as needed
- Assist with harvesting and other procedures involved in preparing harvested flowers for processing
- Hand or machine trim flower quickly and efficiently
- Maintain consistent trim numbers without sacrificing quality
- Accurately weigh and record trimming weights and numbers
- Ability to sit, stand, or walk for extended periods, often the entire shift
- Perform occasional moderate to heavy manual labor
- Perform repetitive motions of hands, wrists, and forearms
- Proper disposal of any waste
- Help maintain inventory of applicable materials and products
- General facility cleaning and other various tasks as needed to maintain an optimal work environment
- Other job duties as requested
Responsibilities - Packaging:
- Maintain a positive attitude that promotes teamwork
- Take direction from management
- Perform the duties of the position in a safe and efficient manner
- Ability to work on your own or with a team depending on the task
- Maintain a clean and safe workspace throughout your shift
- Clean and reset processing equipment at the end of each shift
- Follow safety guidelines and PPE requirements
- Accurately follow standard operating procedures for each process being performed, as well as being observant and offering suggestions on how to improve these processes
- Set goals and meet deadlines
- Engage in industry education and professional development, as needed
- Assist with harvesting and other procedures involved in preparing harvested flowers for processing
- Package flower, concentrates, and finished goods quickly and efficiently
- Maintain consistent packaging numbers without sacrificing quality
- Accurately weigh and record packaging weights and numbers
- Label packages and fulfill orders
- Occasionally deliver products to licensed Utah medical cannabis facilities
- Ability to sit, stand, or walk for extended periods, often the entire shift
- Perform occasional moderate to heavy manual labor
- Perform repetitive motions of hands, wrists, and forearms
- Proper disposal of any waste
- Help maintain inventory of applicable materials and products
- General facility cleaning and other various tasks as needed to maintain an optimal work environment
- Other job duties as requested
Qualifications:
- Ability to pass a federal background check and obtain proper licensing with state agencies to be able to handle medical cannabis
- Must be 21 years of age or older
- Must have or be willing to get a food handler's permit
- Cannabis industry experience preferred but not necessary
- Experience in horticulture, agriculture, or manufacturing preferred but not necessary
- Ability to work and be adaptable under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Self-motivated, methodical, versatile, mechanically inclined
- Must have the ability to push, pull, or lift a minimum of 50 pounds
- Ability to remain compliant with all applicable laws as well as company SOPs and guidelines
- Ability to communicate effectively via, email, phone calls, text, or any other methods frequently used within the company
- Reliable transportation to and from work
- Ability to work beyond regularly scheduled hours of work as needed to be sure production deadlines are met
- Basic computer skills (i.e. email, excel)
- Customer service experience for the time that you will be working at our pharmacy
- Ability to stand or sit for 8-12 hours
- Ability to lift up to 50 pounds, multiple times daily
Education:
Minimum High School Diploma or G.E.D. equivalent Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in horticulture, agriculture, or plant science is a bonus, but not required
Environmental Conditions:
Potential exposure to dusts, odors, high and low temperatures, high and low humidity, high noise levels, vibrations, water, commonly used solvents and volatile organic compounds, allergens, pollen, plant pathogens, and other environmental variables. Proper PPE will be provided for all of our employees.
Mask Consideration:
Due to the nature of the job (handling a medical product) and the potential for particulate matter to be suspended in the air, masks will be required by all employees engaged in processing activities where open product is present.