At North Spore we want to make the world of mushrooms accessible to everyone, and we’re looking for a Production Assistant to help us realize our vision.
About North Spore
We’re mushrooming. Specifically, we help people grow mushrooms and as a result, are growing at an unprecedented rate. We’re passionate about cultivating food, foraging for fungi, and ‘Spreading the Spore’. When we launched in 2014, we were a vertically integrated mushroom farm, but have now grown into the Northeast’s premier mushroom supply and cultivation e-commerce company with a state of the art in-house laboratory, mushroom spawn production facility, research farm, and digital education center.
As a leader in the field, we are constantly innovating and developing new products. Exponential growth, North American distribution, an ever-expanding product portfolio that goes well beyond grow kits, and a growing community of North Spore enthusiasts and social media followers around the world who sing our praises and treat their friends and family to their homegrown shrooms. We’re at that perfect stage of growth, where we’re still small enough for you to make a major difference, while big enough to have resources to do amazing things. Visit us at www.northspore.comto learn a little more about what we do.
About the Position:
North Spore is seeking seasonal (October 4 - April 28) full-time assistants who will work with both our production team and our product packing and e-commerce fulfillment team. Our new, state-of-the-art mushroom cultivation supply and manufacturing facility is located in Portland, Maine.
The job includes a lot of repetitive manual labor, lifting up to 50 lbs, getting sawdust, grain, and manure on your shoes - great for those familiar with the pleasures of agricultural work or those with previous manufacturing experience!
We all work hard all day but we also like to have fun, listen to good music, keep clever company, and get stuff done. Pay starts at $18/hr a $2.50/hr shift differential increase for the Saturday and Sunday work. There is a probationary period of 60 days for the position. Simple IRA retirement benefits provided without any match requirement. 1 week sick PTO plus 1 week Vacation PTO earned in your first year, with more vacation as you stay with our team (2 weeks second year, 3 weeks third and onwards).
The shifts we are hiring for are Sun-Wed 7am-5:30pm; Mon-Thur 7am-5:30pm; and Wed-Sat 7am-5:30pm.
We are also hiring for year-round, full-time positions for a production assistant. If interested in any or all of our open positions, please apply to each! You can use the same cover letter and resume.
North Spore is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, national origin, age, disability, genetic predisposition or sexual orientation.