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Lab Culture Technician

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  • Position Details

    Who You Are:
    Do you value collaboration, innovation, and working together for the common good? Do you
    enjoy working in controlled environments and self-managing? As a Lab Culture Technician, you
    will help EFM achieve its goals of creating high-quality culinary mushrooms, providing the best
    products available, and developing improved systems and procedures. You are passionate
    about and thrive in a collaborative environment, but can independently manage your tasks, work
    well within and across teams, seek out learning new skills, sharing ideas, and shaping positive
    outcomes.


    Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
    ● Maintain mushroom culture health: prepare media, perform culture transfers, and ensure
    proper environmental conditions for growth
    ● Monitor growth: observe and record the progress of fungal cultures
    ● Accurate data entry of culture details into the databases
    ● Maintain lab cleanliness and safety
    ● Ensure adequate lab supplies
    ● Take monthly spawn inventory
    ● Substrate bag inoculation: inoculate sterilized substrates and produce fruiting bags
    ● Operate autoclave and produce substrate bags: load/unload and run the autoclave as
    well as produce hydrated substrate bags to be sterilized.


    Who You’ll Work With:
    In the Laboratory Department, you’ll work with the Mycologist and Head of Operations, other
    members of the team and across teams to produce, process, and create top quality mushrooms
    and products for our customers.
    Product Excellence:
    ● Ensure the quality of all products meets the highest standards.
    ● Find solutions to problems that might arise and report in the process.
    ● Ensure proper organization and management of documents.
    Knowledge of:
    ● Sterile technique
    ● Lab protocols and safety
    ● Data analysis
    Skills/ Abilities:
    ● Attention to detail
    ● Manual dexterity
    ● Record keeping: Accurate and organized documentation of culture workflow data
    ● Time management: Efficiently manage tasks, prioritize and meet deadlines
    ● Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
    ● Above average math skills
    ● Problem-solving/Critical thinking
    Compensation and Benefits:
    ● $17/hour
    ● Free mushrooms from the “employee shelf”
    ● Monthly company lunch


    Work Environment/Condition of Employment:
    This is a farm, you are expected to dress for the role, this does not mean employees need to
    wear collared shirts, slacks, dresses; rather the dress is casual with the requirement to wear
    closed toed shoes, long pants, no jewelry, and no scented products. Cleanliness is a critical
    aspect to the position and good hygiene practices are required.

  • Company Overview

    Enchanted Farms Mushrooms is an exciting new gourmet and medicinal mushroom company headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico. We’re passionate about mushrooms and localizing food systems, providing nutritional, high-quality products regionally. Our commitment is to people and the planet. Our team boasts an impressive track record of building sustaining brands and successfully leading fast-growing organizations in an array of industries. 

    Our vision is bold and ambitious. We’re laying a strong foundation for the mushroom generation that is taking off across the United States and beyond. With Enchanted Farms Mushrooms, we're committed to reducing carbon emissions while innovating processes and products that meet the demands of the evolving consumer landscape. Our strength is in our ability to form strong community partnerships and apply time-tested production methods while intentionally leading with creativity and innovation to reach the best possible solutions for the product and the company.

  • Our Philosophy

    Enchanted Farms Mushrooms believes in competitive salaries and benefits while supporting individuals in their professional development goals. We will work with the best industry professionals while providing a supportive pathway for others just getting their start in the industry. The vision is to grow Enchanted Farms Mushrooms to a long-lasting enterprise that is driven by the following purposes: 

    • Support local and regional food systems. 
    • Improve the wellbeing of communities by developing healthy food products and supplements. 
    • Build a meaningful company culture, offering living wage jobs with benefits and a transformational work environment. 
    • Run an efficient and innovative operation that can support greater results.