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Work Description – Cultivation & Operations Worker

• Full-Time
• 35+ Hours / Week Approximately

Cultivation & Operations Worker(s) will play a key role in ensuring the timely cultivation and delivery of our high-quality specialty mushrooms, while assisting to ensure facilities are clean, sanitized and compliant with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Follow our Food Safety Plan and bring any non-compliance to the attention of our Facilities / Cultivation Manager;
• Placing inoculated blocks into incubation, monitoring blocks that are incubating and assessing levels of colonization for fruiting preparedness;
• Preparing and placing colonized blocks into fruiting rooms when appropriate;
• Assessing fruiting progression and advising Facilities / Cultivation Manager of any inconsistencies or issues;
• Harvesting matured mushrooms and packaging them according to internal SOPs, labelling boxes, palletizing and preparing orders for delivery, and executing value-add processes when needed (dehydrating and etc.);
• Removing harvested blocks from fruiting rooms and composting them according to SOPs;
• Cleaning / sanitizing of fruiting rooms and racking, packaging room and associated tools / equipment, vehicles, hallways / corridors, walk-in refrigerator and etc.;
• Properly receiving inbound deliveries of materials;
• Ensure a safe work environment is maintained within the facility by keeping them free of debris;
• Prevention and control of disease through communication and monitoring inline with our SOPs;
• Assisting with general maintenance duties as required; and
• Any other reasonable duties that would fall in line with the cultivating, processing and distributing of specialty mushrooms.
• Driving 16' delivery truck to Toronto twice per week

Qualifications

• Motivated, positive attitude, and able to effectively work independently and within a team environment;
• Physically fit
• Exhibit initiative, responsibility and flexibility with assigned work;
• Strong work ethic and keen eye for details;
• Willingness to learn; and
• No education or experience with mushrooms required.
• Must have valid G license with clean record, be 25+ years of age, and have experience driving heavy trucks or equipment

Company Overview

Located in Thornbury, Ontario - 20 mins North of Collingwood, Woodbloom Mushrooms is one of the very few vertically integrated commercial cultivators of organic and locally grown specialty / mushrooms in Ontario. Mushroom varietals we focus on include Shiitake, Oysters, King Oysters, Lions Mane, Chestnut, Maitake and more. We are looking for like-minded individuals to join our team and enjoy working in our clean state-of-the-art facility, as we look to bring the wonderful taste and texture of specialty mushrooms to more plates across North America!

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: From $20.00 per hour

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Thornbury, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you have experience driving heavy truck or equipment?
• Do you have a clean driving record?

Language:

• English (required)

Work Location: In person