Tissue Culture Lab Manager
St. Johns, FL
Full Time
Manager/Supervisor
Planet 13 (formerly VidaCann) is proud to be one of the largest, most advanced and sustainable providers of medical cannabis in Florida. Our mission is to help our Florida friends and neighbors live their healthiest lives with our all-natural, sun-grown cannabis products.
We are currently looking for a laboratory manager for our state-of-the-art tissue culture lab.
We use precise extraction and refinement processes to remove all impurities. We have rigorous testing standards, and our lab is FDA certified for cGMP to ensure we are meeting the highest standards of safety and purity.
Our ACE conservatories are meticulously built to produce superior products. Translucent walls and ceilings let us grow using natural sunlight, and state of the art technology allows us to monitor temperature, humidity, light, watering, air movement, and plant food around the clock.
Starting from the seeds or clones we grow from; we make sure our process is guided by our mission: To create and sustain a culture of health and wellness throughout Florida.
Tissue Culture Lab Manager Responsibilities:
Tissue Culture Lab Manager Qualifications:
Benefits:
Physical Demands:
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
This job position may involve exposure to cannabis, cannabis odors, and cannabis smoke, which is a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law.
Planet 13 would like to make its customers aware that certain individuals might try and approach them, call them, email them, text them, or reach out to them via social media, presenting themselves as our employees and/or affiliates to try and gain access to your personal information. This is a phishing scam. Planet 13 will never call a potential employee or customer for any form of payment in return for training material, ask for anyone’s direct deposit information, and their banking login and password. Planet 13’s Board Members and Executives do not work as recruiters and do not communicate with potential employees directly via any form of communication nor do they engage in the offering of positions to potential employees. These claims and offers are fraudulent, and we advise everyone to use discretion when handling these situations. If you feel as though you have been a target of this type of scam, please reach out to your local law enforcement. Thank you.
We are currently looking for a laboratory manager for our state-of-the-art tissue culture lab.
We use precise extraction and refinement processes to remove all impurities. We have rigorous testing standards, and our lab is FDA certified for cGMP to ensure we are meeting the highest standards of safety and purity.
Our ACE conservatories are meticulously built to produce superior products. Translucent walls and ceilings let us grow using natural sunlight, and state of the art technology allows us to monitor temperature, humidity, light, watering, air movement, and plant food around the clock.
Starting from the seeds or clones we grow from; we make sure our process is guided by our mission: To create and sustain a culture of health and wellness throughout Florida.
Tissue Culture Lab Manager Responsibilities:
- Executing methodologies for plant tissue culture to achieve production goals
- Managing all lab techs and supervisors, maintain accurate inventories, execute production plans, clean stock, and TC/R&D initiatives
- Helping with the set up and installation of lab equipment
- Conducting and evaluating plant tissue culture daily activities for mass scale tissue culture production
- Providing technical guidance and implement laboratory protocol
- Providing accurate inventories
- The ordering of chemicals and supplies
- Maintaining all equipment used within the lab
- Creating and following cleaning schedules
- Hiring and training employees to perform tissue culture operations for mass scale clone production
- Maintaining detailed and organized records of project data and other material as needed.
- Maintaining inventory and compliance records.
Tissue Culture Lab Manager Qualifications:
- Degree in plant science or related field
- 3 - 5 years of previous experience in a commercial plant tissue culture laboratory, in a management role
- Experience with cloning, sterilization techniques, initiations, and new crop build-ups
- Familiarity with inventory management and inventory management systems
- Excellent organizational, communication and problem-solving skills
- High level of computer skills – including Microsoft word and excel
- Bilingual (Spanish) is a plus
- Professional attitude and the ability to work well and communicate with other team members and departments
Benefits:
- Salaried position, commensurate with experience
- Health, dental, vision insurance offered
- Paid time off, including major holidays
- Wellness Benefit Plan
- Sick Time
- 401k retirement plan
- Employee discount
- Early access to your wages ahead of payday
- Cancer and Critical Illness Insurance
- Life Insurance
Physical Demands:
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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
This job position may involve exposure to cannabis, cannabis odors, and cannabis smoke, which is a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law.
Planet 13 would like to make its customers aware that certain individuals might try and approach them, call them, email them, text them, or reach out to them via social media, presenting themselves as our employees and/or affiliates to try and gain access to your personal information. This is a phishing scam. Planet 13 will never call a potential employee or customer for any form of payment in return for training material, ask for anyone’s direct deposit information, and their banking login and password. Planet 13’s Board Members and Executives do not work as recruiters and do not communicate with potential employees directly via any form of communication nor do they engage in the offering of positions to potential employees. These claims and offers are fraudulent, and we advise everyone to use discretion when handling these situations. If you feel as though you have been a target of this type of scam, please reach out to your local law enforcement. Thank you.
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