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Title: Lead Fertigation Technician
Pay Range: $22.00 - $23.75/hr
Location: Fargo, ND
Job Type: Full Time | Non-Exempt
Shift: Monday-Friday | 6:30am-3:00pm (availability outside of standard hours required)
Who You Are:
You're detail-oriented, proactive, and take ownership of your work. You notice issues early, investigate them, and take action without waiting to be asked. You're comfortable working independently, including weekends, and understand that fertigation accuracy directly impacts plant health and yield. You follow SOPs, stay organized, communicate clearly with the team, and bring solutions forward. Experience in cannabis cultivation or irrigation is helpful, but consistency, accountability, and strong data logging matter just as much.
What You'll Do:
As a Lead Fertigation Technician at Curaleaf, you'll own irrigation and nutrient delivery across the cultivation facility, ensuring systems, schedules, and execution are consistent, proactive, and aligned with crop needs. You'll partner closely with the Cultivation Manager and growing team to troubleshoot issues, set daily priorities, and support plant health and yield.
- Own and execute irrigation and feeding strategies across all cultivation zones and flower rooms.
- Ensure fertigation plans are implemented accurately and consistently in partnership with the cultivation team.
- Oversee operation, monitoring, and maintenance of fertigation systems, batch tanks, and concentrate tanks.
- Validate pH/EC targets through runoff monitoring, system checks, and in-room inspections.
- Inspect flower rooms daily to confirm proper feeding and identify signs of stress, wilting, or overwatering.
- Respond to system alarms, troubleshoot issues, and escalate risks quickly to protect crop health.
- Monitor, review, and document irrigation data, measurements, and observations.
- Calibrate nutrient testing instruments and monitor soil moisture and water quality as needed.
- Manage nutrients, fertilizer, and chemical inventory; ensure tanks are stocked and weekend-ready.
- Maintain fertigation equipment, filters, mix tanks, and irrigation lines on established schedules.
- Communicate clearly with the team, follow direction from the Cultivation Manager, and model a proactive, detail-driven approach.
- Support compliance efforts and interact professionally with state regulators as required.
What You'll Bring:
- At least 1 year of hands-on experience processing cannabis in a regulated facility.
- A proactive mindset—you notice issues, troubleshoot effectively, and communicate early.
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to follow SOPs, stay organized, and maintain accurate data logs and a clean workspace.
- Experience with irrigation, nutrient systems, or cultivation; basic understanding of pH/EC or the ability to learn quickly.
- Ability to perform physical job duties, including lifting equipment and standing or bending for extended periods.
- Reliable attendance, a team-first approach, and comfort working independently, including weekend and variable shift coverage.
Physical Requirements & Work Environment:
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.
- This position has allergen warnings, potential exposure to dust, pollen, and plant pathogens, and requires daily use of provided PPE, such as masks, hair nets, beard covers, respirators, boot covers, scrubs, non-slip shoes, and Tyvek suits as necessary, has exposure to loud noises, including but not limited to air compressors, packaging equipment, and alarms, has exposure to CO2 manufacturing procedures at OSHA approved CO2 levels, requires high-stress tolerance, adaptability, and flexibility, as well as the ability to work in an ever-changing environment.
- While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit, talk, use hands to finger or feel, reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb and balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and lift up to 50 lbs.
- This position requires close vision, distance vision, color vision, distance vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
What We Offer:
- Career Growth Opportunities
- Competitive Pay and Benefits
- Generous PTO and Parental Leave
- 401(K) Retirement Plan
- Life/ Disability Insurance
- Community Involvement
- Referral Bonuses and Product Discounts
Benefits vary by state, role type, and eligibility.
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Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (TSX: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company, and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, Grassroots, Find, and Anthem provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. Curaleaf International is powered by a strong presence in all stages of the supply chain. Its unique distribution network throughout Europe, Canada and Australasia brings together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production. Home | Curaleaf | Cannabis with Confidence
Our Vision: To be the world's leading cannabis company by consistently delivering superior products and services and driving the global acceptance of cannabis.
Our Values:
- Lead and Inspire.
- Commit to Win.
- ONE Curaleaf.
- Driven to Deliver Excellence.
Curaleaf is an equal opportunity employer. Curaleaf recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Individuals adversely impacted by the war on drugs are encouraged to apply.
Current Curaleaf employees should apply for open positions through our Internal Job Board, which can be accessed via the link on The Leaf.
***Please note that U.S. immigration rules and regulations are governed by federal law; not state law. Although Curaleaf operates in states that have legalized and decriminalized marijuana, it is still considered a controlled substance under federal regulations and thus illegal under federal law. For this reason, unless and until federal law changes, Curaleaf is prohibited from offering sponsorship for any non-immigrant or immigrant visas.
***Please also note that while candidates who are Lawful Permanent Residents (such as those with Green Cards) are eligible for employment with, and are hired by Curaleaf, working for a company engaged in a business that grows and sells a product that is illegal under federal law might compromise the candidate's immigration status. Before a Lawful Permanent Resident accepts an offer of employment, Curaleaf recommends that the candidate seek the advice of an immigration lawyer.
