RICHMOND BC JOBS

SKY HARVEST IS HIRING

Based in Richmond, BC. Full or Part time Position

Position: Farm Operations Assistant
Employer: Sky Harvest
Location: Richmond, Metro Vancouver BC (7 minute bike ride from Bridgeport Skytrain Station)

Sky Harvest is Canada’s first organic certified indoor urban vertical farm, located in Richmond, BC.

Our farm premises is an industrial unit and our team is a combination of part time and full time employees. We supply Vancouver restaurants and grocery stores with a wide range of high quality microgreens, leafy greens and edible flowers.

Our core values and commitments…

• Delighted Customers – top quality, tasty and long shelf-life products together with exceptional customer service
• Social and Economic Contribution - a safe and enjoyable place to work. We have a great team, and our record of staff attraction and retention has been extremely good for a small business in this sector
• Food security - the proximity of our farm to Vancouver contributes to food security in the lower mainland, and we encourage local businesses to source their produce locally, amongst other ways, through the BuyBC program.
• Zero Emissions Delivery - we distribute using bikes and e-bikes with trailers attached (and occasionally an electric car) to deliver our products to the downtown and peripheral Vancouver areas two or three times each week.
• Sustainable Electricity – we use BC’s hydro electricity grid to energize our crops. We are striving to go further and take advantage of other, increasingly prevalent, forms of renewable electricity generation such as photovoltaics.

The Role and Duties

The Farm Operations Assistant is a “hands on” role, undertaking farming activities within the farm. The role reports to the Farm Operations Manager and also takes direction from the Lead Grower with respect to training and knowledge development.

Duties include:

• Planting /seeding trays for a variety of different crops
• Growing room activities, including watering and tray organization
• Cleaning and sanitizing
• Harvesting trays and packing crops for restaurants and retail

No prior knowledge is farming is required as training will be provided, although an interest in farming/agriculture would be beneficial.

The individual will need to have a reasonable degree of fitness and agility, for example working on step ladders is a requirement. Reasonable manual dexterity is also necessary.

The role offers between 20 and 40 hours work per week according to business demand and the successful individual’s availability.

APPLY

Please submit an introduction of yourself and why you would think you could be a good fit with us, a resume and any questions you may have about us or the position to: chris [at] skyharvest.ca — subject: Farm Operations Assistant.  Please mention you saw this at FoodWork.ca.