Greenhouse Manager

About Loam

At Loam, we have the earth in our hands. As a team of scientists, farmers and entrepreneurs, we are on a mission to improve the world’s farmland and address climate change.We are developing microbial technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and build carbon in agricultural soils. We help farming businesses prosper by boosting yield and soil health and enabling access to carbon markets.

As a start-up with ambitious founders and investors, our work is fast-paced and multidimensional. We foster a supportive and diverse workplace, where every team member is encouraged to learn and grow beyond their area of expertise.

While everyone at Loam is working in different roles, we all have one job: to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and store it stably in farmer’s soils.

About the Role

This role would suit a highly experienced sales and agribusiness leader with a deep understanding of agronomy and the inputs farmers use and how profits are generated from growing corn, soybeans, wheat, and other broad acre crops.

You will have a sincere interest in helping farmers and go-to-market partners improve production practices and creating significant savings and/or new sources of meaningful income by actively engaging with Loam’s microbial and carbon credit platform. You will have experience and a clear understanding of how to operate in a startup environment committed to meeting important milestones and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Operational oversight of the greenhouse operations including:

• Maintenance scheduling for cleaning, lighting, watering systems, shade cloth systems.
• Safety and regulatory compliance.
• Purchase and delivery of all consumables (pots, soil, fertilizer, watering peripherals, lighting systems, labels, seed, etc).
• Scheduling of experiments across 4 greenhouse modules and multiple projects (familiarity with project management software is an advantage).
• Maximizing the efficiency and capacity of the greenhouse systems.
• Management of human resources including research assistants and hourly workers.
• Coordination with greenhouse owners.

Hands on support for experimental set up, maintenance, take down, and analysis (we want you to get your hands dirty!)

Development of new experimental procedures supporting LOAM’s unique objectives.

Representing the greenhouse functional team in resource planning meetings and other management discussions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in horticulture, agronomy, or other plant-related discipline.
• Full working knowledge of Argus greenhouse monitoring and scheduling systems (or equivalent).
• 5+ years working experience in greenhouse systems with full environmental control.
• Familiarity with full life cycle row crop growth in greenhouse systems (soy, wheat, canola, corn etc).
• New assay development expertise (including experimental design and writing SOPs).
• Personnel management experience.
• Willingness to do what it takes to get the job done.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Familiarity with statistical analysis and data management.

Benefits

Collaborative and highly engaging work environment with engagement across the Loam international R&D, product and commercial team

• Ability to have significant impact and grow with the organisation
• Competitive package on offer, including base salary and participation in the Employee Share Option Package (ESOP)
• Paid time off, 401K with company match, short-term/long-term life insurance
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Accident, Critical Illness, Telehealth and FSA for medical and dependent care