Cultivation manager

At Rubicon Organics, our vision is to be the most trusted house of premium cannabis brands – creating elevated experiences for people everywhere. Our mission is to build brands people believe in by delivering elevated experiences in all we do. Through uncompromising quality, purposeful innovation, and trusted partnerships, we create products and relationships that enrich lives and help shape the future of cannabis.We are looking for an exceptional Cultivation Manager to lead daily cultivation execution at our Cascadia facility in Hope, BC. This role owns crop performance, labour execution, compliance, and team development across cultivation, propagation, crop care, harvest readiness, climate, irrigation, nutrition, and IPM coordination. The successful candidate is a hands-on greenhouse leader who can translate crop strategy into disciplined daily execution, build capable supervisors and team members, use data to identify risk early, and drive continuous improvement through standard work, root-cause analysis, and clear cross-functional communication. This role is based at our Cascadia facility in Hope, BC, and reports to the Senior Cultivation Manager.
Key ResponsibilitiesCrop Strategy & Production Planning

• Lead crop planning and daily execution in collaboration with Processing, Quality, and Maintenance, balancing quality, capacity, labour, crop risk, and business priorities.
• Translate crop plans into practical weekly and daily work plans for propagation, plant care, environmental targets, harvest readiness, and room turns.
• Monitor schedules, plant health, labour progress, and production variances; escalate risks early with clear options, trade-offs, and recommended actions.
• Maintain a consistent floor presence to verify work quality, identify issues before they become crop risk, and ensure plans are understood and executed to standard.

Cultivation & Crop Health

• Oversee all aspects of cultivation execution, including propagation, cloning, transplanting, irrigation, nutrition, pruning, crop work, environmental management, harvest readiness, drying handoff, and curing coordination where required.
• Partner with Climate, Irrigation and IPM stakeholders to ensure climate, irrigation, fertigation, pest prevention, and nutrition strategies are implemented accurately and adjusted based on crop response and data.
• Use crop walks, environmental data, labour tracking, pest and disease observations, and production results to identify trends, troubleshoot issues, and improve consistency across rooms and crop stages.
• Support proactive IPM execution by ensuring scouting findings, biological controls, pesticide applications, sanitation practices, and follow-up actions are clearly communicated and completed to standard.
• Contribute to nutrient, irrigation, crop work, and environmental protocol improvements using research, operational experience, and post-crop review findings.

Leadership & Team Development

• Build, coach, and develop a high-performing cultivation team, including Supervisors, Leads, Climate, IPM, and Crop Labour team members where applicable.
• Create a culture of accountability, collaboration, curiosity, safety, continuous learning, and operational discipline.
• Lead hiring, onboarding, training, performance management, coaching, succession planning, and day-to-day leadership routines.
• Develop supervisors and leads as capable people leaders who can plan work, communicate expectations, assess performance, solve problems, and follow through.
• Maintain clear, respectful, and timely communication across shifts and departments so priorities, risks, decisions, and changes are understood.

Operational Excellence, Labour Systems & Continuous Improvement

• Develop and sustain standard work, labour tracking, crop work planning tools, and visual management systems that improve consistency, efficiency, quality, and scalability.
• Use labour data, crop outcomes, post-harvest feedback, and production metrics to identify waste, improve work methods, and strengthen execution.
• Lead root-cause analysis when performance, quality, safety, compliance, or crop health deviates from expectations; ensure corrective and preventive actions are practical, assigned, tracked, and verified.
• Support cultivation trials, new technology evaluations, SOP development, and process improvements that improve plant health, product quality, labour efficiency, and cost performance.

Quality, Compliance & Documentation

• Ensure compliance with Good Production Practices (GPP), SOPs, Health Canada requirements, WorkSafeBC expectations, organic standards, pesticide handling requirements, and internal quality standards.
• Maintain accurate cultivation records, batch documentation, inventory records, pesticide and IPM documentation, production data, labour records, and reporting required for compliance and operational decision-making.
• Support internal audits, Health Canada inspections, organic certification activities, incident investigations, deviations, CAPAs, and regulatory follow-up.
• Build a safety-conscious team culture by reinforcing training, safe work practices, sanitation, chemical handling, and timely reporting of hazards, incidents, and near misses.

Financial & Operational Management

• Own cultivation labour planning, budget inputs, resource allocation, and operating discipline for assigned areas.
• Monitor labour costs, productivity, consumables, crop loss, yield, quality, unit economics, and other operational KPIs; identify opportunities to reduce waste without compromising product quality or compliance.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Maintenance, Quality, Processing, Planning, and Production to ensure people, materials, rooms, equipment, and timelines are aligned.
• Prepare clear updates for leadership on crop status, labour performance, risks, corrective actions, and progress against KPIs.

Key Performance Indicators

• Crop health, yield, potency, quality, and harvest readiness delivered against plan.
• Labour productivity, schedule adherence, room readiness, and crop work completion to standard.
• Compliance accuracy, documentation completeness, audit readiness, and timely closure of deviations, CAPAs, and corrective actions.
• Team capability, engagement, attendance reliability, training completion, and supervisor/lead development.
• Continuous improvement impact, including reduced waste, improved consistency, stronger standard work, and verified RCA follow-through.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in cannabis cultivation, greenhouse operations, horticulture, or commercial agriculture; 3+ years leading people is preferred.
• Proven success leading cultivation, greenhouse, or production teams through supervisors, leads, and technical specialists.
• Strong greenhouse cultivation knowledge, including plant health, propagation, crop work, irrigation, nutrition, environmental controls, harvest readiness, and IPM.
• Experience with climate systems, irrigation/fertigation systems, crop tracking tools, labour tracking, Microsoft Excel, and production reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to build systems, standardize work, coach teams, manage change, and improve execution across a complex operation.
• Experience working in regulated production environments with strong understanding of GPP, SOPs, documentation control, pesticide handling, and audit readiness.
• Strong planning, organizational, financial, and labour management skills, including budget ownership and KPI review.
• Practical experience with root-cause analysis, corrective actions, continuous improvement, Lean, Six Sigma, or similar problem-solving methods is an asset.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across Operations, Quality, Science, Processing, Maintenance, Procurement, and Production.
• Post-secondary education in Horticulture, Agriculture, Plant Science, or a related field is considered an asset.
• Spanish language skills are an asset.
• Ability to successfully obtain and maintain a Health Canada Security Clearance.

Why Rubicon

• Be part of a team that values quality, compliance, and doing things the right way. 
• Join a publicly listed, mission-led company focused on sustainability and product excellence. 
• Work in a collaborative environment with smart people who value initiative and curiosity. 
• Base salary of $80,000–$90,000
• 15% bonus potential 
• Monthly phone stipend
• Unlimited vacation
• Medical and dental benefits after 3 months

We believe hiring should be a human process. Every application is reviewed by our team, and we do not use artificial intelligence or automated tools to screen, rank, or make decisions about candidates. We take a deliberate approach to evaluating each applicant based on their experience, skills, and potential, ensuring every candidate is considered thoughtfully and fairly.