Cultivation Operations · Trifecta Farms
Massachusetts CCC License MC283350 · Brimfield, MA · Full-time, hourly, on-site
About the work. Cannabis cultivation is precision repetition on
living plants. You will take hundreds of cuttings a week, transplant and up-pot
on the plants' schedule (not yours), defoliate and trellis room after room, and
keep every space clean enough to pass an unannounced inspection. Every plant
carries a METRC tag; every one is tracked from cutting to harvest. The people
who thrive here aren't the ones who go fastest in the first hour — they're
the ones whose 8th hour looks the same as their 1st.
What you'll actually do
Propagation & mother plants
- Take cuttings from mother plants to spec — clean cuts, healthy stock, zero cross-strain mix-ups. Set them in rooting media and track them through rooting.
- Log cutting counts and rooting results at the propagation kiosk so the records match the trays.
- Help maintain mother stock: pruning, feeding, health checks, and flagging anything that looks off before it becomes a problem.
Veg & flower room plant work
- Transplant and up-pot on schedule; move plants between rooms without ever losing tag-to-plant identity.
- Defoliate, prune, and trellis to spec — consistent work, plant after plant, row after row. We do not chase speed at the cost of plant health.
- Support watering and fertigation: hand-water where needed, check emitters and drippers, report clogs and dry pots the day you find them.
- Support integrated pest management (IPM): scout for pests and disease, place and read sticky traps, assist with approved treatments, and flag suspect plants immediately.
- Apply and verify METRC plant tags at phase changes. Counts on the floor must match counts in the system — you are part of how that stays true.
Harvest & green waste
- Help cut down, weigh, and hang harvest plants; record weights at the harvest kiosk as you go.
- Handle green waste to SOP — weigh it, render it unusable, and log it. Nothing leaves the building untracked.
Cleaning & compliance
- Turn over rooms between crops: strip, sanitize, reset benches and trellis, and 5S the space before the next planting.
- Clean your tools and the shared equipment (scissors, trays, carts, benches) to SOP every shift.
- Follow cleanliness and contamination protocols. Wash hands, change gloves, don't carry pests or pathogens between rooms.
- Enter your work at the floor kiosks as you do it — plant counts, weights, waste logs, room moves — and other tasks that keep the facility audit-ready.
Who thrives in this role
This is repetitive precision work in a regulated environment. Across decades of industrial-organizational psychology research (Wilmot & Ones 2019; Pletzer et al. 2019; Schmidt & Hunter 1998), four traits have consistently predicted performance and retention in roles like this. We hire for them deliberately.
Industriousness
You finish what you start. Hour 8 of defoliation feels different from hour 1,
but your pace and your plant care stay flat. You don't need a manager to push
you through the slow part of the shift.
Big Five Conscientiousness facet — meta-analytic correlation around 0.21 with job performance.
Orderliness
Your cart is organized before you start. Tools go back where they came from.
You'd rather re-count a bench than log a wrong number. You notice when a tag
doesn't match a plant.
Big Five Conscientiousness facet — strongest individual predictor of compliance work quality.
Steadiness under pressure
When a room turnover backs up, when a plant count doesn't reconcile at the end
of a long day, when a crop takes a pest hit — you don't spiral. You name
what's wrong, document it, and move forward.
Low-Neuroticism profile — predicts safety performance and reduced burnout in repetitive roles.
Honesty about hard things
If you snapped a branch, you say so. If a count is off, you flag it. If you
saw a coworker shortcut the SOP, you raise it. METRC records have to match
the plants on the floor, and that depends on you.
HEXACO Honesty-Humility — strongest single-trait predictor of workplace deviance avoidance (Pletzer et al. 2019).
You don't need to be the fastest, the most outgoing, or the most ambitious. You don't need to love cannabis (though it doesn't hurt). You do need to be the kind of person whose word is good and whose attention to detail doesn't drop when nobody's watching.
What we don't expect
- Cannabis experience. We train. If you've cared for anything living on a schedule — a garden, animals, a greenhouse — you have the foundation.
- A specific personality. Quiet introverts and steady extraverts both do this work well.
- Speed at the expense of plant health or accuracy. If a coworker tells you to cut a corner to hit a number, the answer is no.
What we offer
- $20 per hour.
- Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–4:00 PM. A single shift — we don't run rotating shifts.
- Paid training, paid sick time, 11 paid holidays, and the paid Trifecta orientation curriculum.
- Massachusetts CCC Registered Agent registration paid for by Trifecta.
- A clean facility, real climate control, well-kept rooms, and management that takes the work seriously.
Requirements
- 21 or older (state law).
- Eligible for CCC Registered Agent status — we file the paperwork; you pass the background check (we do not disqualify for cannabis-only convictions).
- Able to be on your feet for an 8-hour shift; bend, kneel, reach overhead, and work from step stools; lift up to 50 lb occasionally (media, pots, water).
- Comfortable working in warm, humid grow rooms under bright horticultural lighting.
- Able to follow short work instructions and match identifiers exactly.
- Comfortable using a tablet or floor kiosk to log your work.
- Reliable transportation.
- High-school diploma or GED.
Working conditions
- Grow-room work may include repetitive motion, standing, bending and overhead reach, warm and humid conditions, bright horticultural lighting, regulated material, cleaning agents, and required PPE.
- Schedules may change with the crop calendar and harvest demand.
- Only trained and authorized staff may perform regulated or equipment-specific steps.
All work follows current Cannabis Control Commission requirements, site procedures, safety rules, privacy controls, and approved recordkeeping practices.
Hiring process
Application then a 20-minute work-style assessment (mobile, on your time) then a 30-minute interview with the hiring manager then a reference check then an offer. We typically move through this in 5 to 10 business days.