Tissue Culture Lab Technician

Overview

Growing medical and recreational cannabis manufacturers on the East Coast. Our mission is simple: grow the highest-quality weed at prices everyone can afford.

We re looking for passionate people to join us in our mission to democratize cannabis — as we like to say, to  Weed the People.

With a dialed-in grow operation and a bold new brand refresh, we re ready to dominate the MD/DC market — and have a little fun while we re at it.

Tissue Culture Lab Technician

Our Tissue Culture Lab Tech is primarily responsible for the day-to-day plant tissue culture operations including initiation, multiplication, subculturing, and rooting in a sterile laboratory environment. The Tissue Culture Lab Tech will be responsible for maintaining our genetic library and ensuring healthy, consistent plant starts for our cultivation operation.

• Perform sterile explant preparation and culture initiation in accordance with established SOPs.
• Execute plant tissue culture workflows, including multiplication cycles, routine subculturing, and rooting transfers.
• Monitor cultures daily to identify contamination, abnormal growth, or deviations, and escalate concerns immediately.
• Conduct all tissue culture manipulations under laminar flow hoods using strict aseptic technique.
• Track plantlet development, ensure culture health, and support consistent production throughput.
• Prepare culture media by accurately weighing, mixing, adjusting pH, and dispensing components following defined SOPs.
• Maintain accurate production records, including initiation batches, multiplication cycles, transfer counts, and all associated dates.
• Operate autoclaves, including loading, running, unloading, and completing required sterilization documentation.
• Participate in routine cleaning schedules and contamination response activities, ensuring all tools, vessels, and work areas are cleaned, sterilized, and organized.
• Uphold rigorous cleanliness, sanitation, PPE, and workflow‑separation standards to prevent cross‑contamination.
• Maintain clear, timely production and inventory documentation to support traceability.
• Immediately report SOP deviations, contamination events, quality concerns, or equipment issues to leadership.
• All other duties as necessary.

• For legal reasons, all employees need to be at least 21 years of age.
• You will be asked to pass a Federal and State criminal history background check.
• We ask that you have at least a high school diploma/GED.
• Willingness to work in a clean, controlled laboratory environment, lab and tissue culture, or science experience.
• Experience in SOP-driven environments such as manufacturing, food production, nursery work, or quality assurance.
• Strong ability to maintain focus while performing repetitive, precision-based tasks with consistency for extended periods of time.
• Must be able to work methodically with excellent fine motor control.

• Excellent observational and record-keeping skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail, our plants are very delicate throughout their lifecycle!
• Desire and ability to work as a member of a team.
• Comply with all HR policies including confidentiality and non-disclosure.
• Maintain open communication with the management team and other co-workers.
• Strong work ethic; must be accountable and proactive.
• Ability to work at a fast pace in a high production environment!
• We ask that you do not have allergies to plant materials or nitrile gloves; this position requires daily exposure to cannabis plants and nitrile gloves.

• On-site 5 days a week.

Reasonable accommodation(s) may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions.

• This position requires an inordinate amount of sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, twisting and reaching in full range of motion to complete physical tasks.
• This position requires extended and repetitive use of arms, hands, and fingers to cut and manipulate small objects.
• Employees are asked to wear scrubs, lab coats, masks, gloves, and hairnets while working in the lab. DCM will provide lab coats, scrubs, gloves, and hair nets to…