Technical Assistant, Flower Room – Aurora Cannabis

Job Title: Technical Assistant, Flower Room

Location: Bradford, ON

Job Description: Technical Assistant , Flower Room
Job location: Onsite, Bradford
Employment type: Full Time Employment
Hours: 40 Hours per weekA little about usHi, we’re Aurora Cannabis, and we’re so excited to meet you!
We’re a global cannabis company driven by our passion to help people improve their lives. We have a diverse team who bring their best every day so Aurora can be the cannabis provider of choice for patients and consumers. We love our work, and we especially love our high quality, innovative brands that make up the Aurora family – from Aurora, Aurora Drift, San Rafael ’71 and Whistler.
Our people combined with our collective passion for the industry is what makes Aurora a special place to work and defines what we call our “A-Team”. We are a high-performing team of cannabis experts, innovators, and champions, that work, learn and win together. We think BIG, act BOLD and execute with PURPOSE in all that we do, and will stop at nothing to cultivate the ultimate cannabis experience for our community.Job summary.Are you a cannabis enthusiast with an energetic spirit? Are you looking to work with a fun group of people? If so, we would love to meet you!Reporting to the Supervisor, Cultivation – Flower Room, leads the harvest team in all harvest-related activities. This includes ensuring that team members wear the appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) and adhere to all safety protocols. The role also involves overseeing the entire harvest process and performing additional duties as needed.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Harvest and pre-/ post-processing of cannabis.
• Communicate and escalate all issues with the crop and/or the production process to all the relevant parties as required.
• Participate in harvest related activities such as harvesting, bagging, moisture samples, transport of cannabis, and dry room turnover as required.
• Conducting equipment cleaning
• Conducting general facility cleaning
• Recognize unsafe conditions and practices and make corrections to prevent injuries and product loss.
• Where applicable, must adhere to Aurora’s SOPs and comply with Health Canada’s Cannabis Act. In addition, must adhere to all ISO requirements and the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
• Where applicable, promote and maintain GMP requirements.
• Communicate any issues with Supervisor.
• Other duties as required, and assist other departments as needed.

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• High School or equivalent.
• Must have a minimum of 1 year labour experience.
• Experience with plant life is an asset (greenhouse, landscaping, farming).
• Excellent communications and ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to multi-task and utilize time management skills.
• Ability to work in environments with pollen and plant debris.
• Ability to lead a team and ensure all assigned duties are completed safely and in a timely manner.
• Comfortable following all safety protocols and procedures, including wearing a respiratory mask, hearing protection and safety eye coverings.
• Repetitive use of hands, wrists and forearms
• Comfortable working with step ladders (i.e. step ladder/single sided step ladder)
• Be a self-starter with a positive attitude and desire to work in a team environment to achieve overall goals.
• Ability to comfortably and safely lift up to 30 lbs.
• Ability to work weekends, holidays and after hours as required.

Why you’ll love working at Aurora
Our people are at the heart of everything we do here at Aurora, and we take pride in fostering an inclusive space that inspires our team to love where they work! From rewarding career opportunities to flexible work environments to team activities, we go above and beyond to prioritize your success and here’s how we do it…

• Flexibility: you will enjoy a flexible work environment that is the perfect blend of work and fun! With flexible working hours to compressed work weeks to paid sick and vacation time, you will be empowered to achieve work-life balance.
• Total rewards: we will motivate you to go above and beyond with a competitive salary or hourly wage (with shift premiums), stock options, an RRSP program, annual bonuses, and a health and personal care spending account for you to use for gym memberships, ski passes or staycations.
• Benefits: we will foster your health and wellness (and your dependents) with our employee benefits package including, employer-paid health and dentalcare premiums, life insurance and LTD policies and a medical cannabis coverage program, designed exclusively for our A-Team, that will provide you with $1500 of coverage each year (because we truly believe cannabis is the best medicine).
• Life-long learning: we’re lifelong learners here at Aurora and will invest in your professional development throughout all aspects of your career! You will have access to a tuition assistance program, virtual learning activities and annual performance reviews, to ensure you are provided with the toolkit and support you need to succeed.
• Perks: we love to celebrate our people by providing corporate perks including employee discounts, perkopolis memberships, company SWAG, paid volunteer time, modern technology and snacks and beverages at all our office locations.

• Team: we are a diverse and global team of cannabis enthusiasts, energetic innovators, fitness gurus, caring parents, foodies and more, with a collective passion to nurture an inclusive environment that helps you grow and provide people better days with medical cannabis.

Diversity and inclusion
At Aurora, we are proud to foster and celebrate a diverse community of professionals! We take pride in nurturing an inclusive culture that empowers our people to be their authentic selves, celebrate their differences and love where they work.Our diverse community combined with our inclusive culture, is what sets us apart in the industry and equips our A-Team with superpowers – and this is why, we encourage all candidates to apply for job opportunities regardless of race, national origin, colour, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital and family status, disability, or any other identifying characteristic. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site or alternate format of job posting) during the recruitment and selection process, please do not hesitate to let our team know! We are here to help.

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