Cultivation & Operations Worker

**Work Description - Cultivation & Operations Worker**
- Part-Time & Full-Time Availability
- 10-24 Hours / Week Part-Time Available
- 35+ Hours / Week Full-Time Available
- Weekend Availability Required

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;
- Mixing and bagging of organic mushroom substrate based on provided composition guidelines, as well as initiating and overseeing sterilization of substrates;
- Assist in performing lab-work / inoculation of mushroom blocks as well as labelling accordingly;
- 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.

**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.

**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

**Salary**: From $18.00 per hour

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Thornbury, ON N0H 2P0: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

- Are you available to work at least one weekend day per week?

**Language**:

- English (required)

Shift availability:

- Day Shift (required)

Work Location: One location