- Do you thrive in a fast-paced, highly regulated and structured environment?
- Would you like to work with a small team to package premium cannabis products?
- Do you work best independently, where you are assigned daily tasks, projects, or production goals to complete?
- Are you quick, efficient, and extremely detail-oriented?
- Are you able to consistently follow processes to produce high quality results?
If you answered yes to these questions, consider applying to NatureMed’s packaging team.
Position Summary
The Packaging Technician accurately and efficiently prepares and packages cannabis for resale, in compliance with safety and regulatory guidelines. Packaging Technicians ensure products consistently meet weight, quality, labeling, and brand standards, while minimizing waste.
Packaging Technicians work as a team to fulfill orders quickly and accurately and report to the Packaging Supervisor.
Packaging Technicians earn $16.50 per hour to start.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities
The Packaging Technician’s key responsibilities are to:
- Show up on time, with a great attitude, ready to work.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and sanitary workspace, in compliance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Follow all cannabis handling state regulations and company policies.
- Prepare bulk products for packaging. Inspect cannabis flower for defects, mold, or damage before packaging.
- Efficiently fill and pack containers to weight, quality and order specifications.
- Effectively operate digital scale by calibrating scale daily, filling scale calibration log, properly using labeling and packaging equipment.
- Ensure product size, weight, and quality are consistent with specifications and standard. Verify with the “Packaging Standards Board”.
- Operate pre-roll machine and/or cartridge filling equipment.
- Accurately seal, label, count, and prepare products for final packaging and delivery.
- Apply and verify labels are accurate and compliant, compare labels to Certificate of Authenticity (COA)s.
- Consistently meet daily production goals.
- Assist with inventory management and product tracking.
- Generates conversions in Dutchie, fill Conversions and Waste Logs on a daily basis.
- Communicate any production or quality concerns to the Packaging Supervisor.
- Remain flexible and open to working with different products and packaging types (i.e., jars, bags, pre-rolls, cartridges).
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications, Skills & Abilities
Required:
- Reliable and extremely trustworthy.
- 21 years of age or older
- Able to follow verbal and written instructions.
- Experience operating a pre-roll machine or hand rolling.
- Experience using a digital scale and packaging equipment.
- Applied basic math and metric measurement skills.
- Detail-oriented and systematic.
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
- Passionate about learning everything about cannabis, products, and consumption methods.
- Knowledge of the cannabis industry and state regulation.
Physical Requirements:
The Packaging Technician is required to sit or stand for extended periods of time, performing repetitive hand and arm motion. This position also requires bending, stooping, climbing, and kneeling, as needed, to move product and maintain the cleanliness of the packaging room. The Packaging Technician is required to wear protective clothing, including hair covering, lab coat, shoe covers. The Packaging Technician must be able to lift, carry, push, and/or pull up to 25 pounds multiple times per day; and may be required to occasionally safely lift, carry, push, and/or pull up to 50 pounds.
Schedule
The schedule for this position is typically Monday through Friday, 8 am – 5 pm, however, this position may require extended shifts, or weekend shifts, depending on production needs and rush orders.
This position is required to report to their assigned location, in-person.
Conditions of Employment
NatureMed is an E-Verify employer and may conduct a criminal and/or financial background investigation for this position prior to finalizing any job offer.
All NatureMed team members are required to obtain and retain a Facility Agent license through the Arizona Department of Health Services (AZDHS), as a condition of their employment.
About the Company
NatureMed’s mission is to be the trusted source for all things cannabis, with the vision to make the community better every day. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, NatureMed currently employs over 200 team members and operates retail and cultivation facilities in Arizona; (5) retail stores in Missouri; and opening four (4) new retail and cultivation facilities in Kentucky in 2026.
Ideal candidates are knowledgeable in their area of expertise; passionate about the industry and learning; and consistently operate with honesty and integrity.
We work hard, play hard, and party hard. We treat others with respect and kindness. Our team works to improve our community every day and respectfully communicate cannabis knowledge with a focus on our patrons. NatureMed welcomes team members who bring a positive attitude, willingness to improve, and a passion for learning, every day.
NatureMed celebrates diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, or any other protected category.
Pay: $16.50 - $18.50 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) 4% Match
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid sick time
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Arizona State Law requires all employees to be at least 21 years of age, are you at least 21 years of age?
Experience:
- operating pre-roll machine or hand rolling: 1 year (Preferred)
- digital scale: 1 year (Preferred)
- packaging equipment: 1 year (Preferred)
License/Certification:
- Facility Agent license (Preferred)
Ability to Commute:
- Tucson, AZ 85756 (Required)
Work Location: In person
