Tissue Culture Lab Technician - Full Time - Florida

Job Description

Job Description

Planet 13 (formerly VidaCann) is proud to be one of the largest, most advanced and sustainable providers of medical cannabis in Florida. Our mission is to help our Florida friends and neighbors live their healthiest lives with our all-natural, sun-grown cannabis products.

We are currently looking for a Full-Time Tissue Culture Lab Technician to join our growing team here in St. Johns! The goal of a Tissue Culture Lab Technician is to support scientific excellence by focusing on precision, protocol adherence, and delivering reliable solutions for research and production needs.

Tissue Culture Lab Technician Responsibilities:

• Consistently follow company policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and best practices to ensure product quality, employee safety, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain full compliance with all applicable state and local regulations governing cannabis tissue culture, handling, transport, and record-keeping. Stay current with regulatory changes and assist with audits or inspections as needed.
• Perform all stages of plant tissue culture, including explant sterilization, media preparation, micropropagation, rooting, acclimatization, and subculturing.
• Carry out explant preparation and subculture of plantlets for production and delivery.
• Assist with media formulation and sterile preparations.
• Maintain sterile technique in a laminar flow hood and ensure proper sanitation of the lab environment.
• Sit and work for long periods of time in a sterile flow hood facility using hand tools.
• Maintain tissue culture vessels and strain inventories, including clean, detailed records of daily activities.
• Track inventory of culture vessels, media, supplies, and explant materials.
• Monitor cultures for contamination, growth rate, and overall health, documenting any abnormalities.
• Assist in phenotypic screening, genotype tracking, and record-keeping using lab management software or spreadsheets.
• Demonstrate a basic understanding of aseptic techniques in clean laboratory environments.
• Always Wear appropriate Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including but not limited to lab coats, gloves, eye protection, and face mask, to maintain a sterile environment and ensure personal safety.
• Lift, carry, and reach overhead or use a step stool as needed.
• Safely package and transport tissue culture plantlets to internal or external grow facilities.
• Maintain accurate records of deliveries, including batch information, quantities, and delivery times.
• Ensure all transport activities comply with regulatory standards, including temperature control and chain-of-custody documentation.
• Serve as a liaison between the tissue culture lab and cultivation teams to support clear communication and aligned production schedules.

Tissue Culture Lab Technician Requirements:

At least 2 years of laboratory related experience involving direct interaction with clients, researchers, or end-users is preferred—ideally within specialized environments such as scientific research, biotechnology, healthcare, or related settings.

• High school diploma or equivalent
• At least 21 years or older
• Ability to pass drug testing and Level 2 Florida State background check

Training will be provided to selected candidates. No prior Medical Marijuana or dispensary experience is needed.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay rates, monthly incentives and advancement opportunities
• Health, dental, vision insurance offered
• Paid time off, including major holidays
• Sick Time
• 401k retirement plan
• Employee discount
• Early access to your wages ahead of payday
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long Term Disability

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job position may involve exposure to cannabis, cannabis odors, and cannabis smoke, which is a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law.

Planet 13 would like to make its customers aware that certain individuals might try and approach them, call them, email them, text them, or reach out to them via social media, presenting themselves as our employees and/or affiliates to try and gain access to your personal information. This is a phishing scam. Planet 13 will never call a potential employee or customer for any form of payment in return for training material, ask for anyone’s direct deposit information, and their banking login and password. Planet 13’s Board Members, and Executives do not work as recruiters and do not communicate with potential employees directly via any form of communication nor do they engage in the offering of positions to potential employees. These claims and offers are fraudulent and we advise everyone to use discretion when handling these situations. If you feel as though you have been a target of this type of scam, please reach out to your local law enforcement. Thank you.

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