Indoor farm manager for community run indoor grow lab

Salary Competitive

We are looking for a pro-active, structured and execution oriented manager for our indoor farm in Copenhagen. Your tasks will be to run production of and experiments with edible plants. Help solve one of humanity’s biggest problems: Sustainable food supply for a rapidly growing urbanized population, and get hands-on with the latest methods and technologies in controlled environment food production.


Main responsibilities:

  • Coordinate and execute plant production runs

  • Maintain the farm

  • Organise and manage community run projects, experiments and events

  • Work with engineers and plant scientist in improving the grow system


You:

  • Are pro-active, structured and execution oriented

  • Are strongly motivated, open minded and not afraid of taking lead

  • Enjoy working with and communicate well with varied types of people

  • Might be technically savvy with a hacker mindset

  • Might have hands-on experience with growing plants, ideally in a soilless system

  • Might have experience from the food service or retail industry

  • Wish to help solve one of the main problems humanity faces through business and technology


We offer:

  • A unique job and the opportunity to work with a unique new solutions to a problem that matters

  • Approximately 5-10 hours of work per week

  • Being a key part of a varied community of food technology people

  • A great place to learn - we work with new business models in combination with plant science, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, big data, hardware, software, mechanics, IoT and cloud computing

  • Flexible workplace and hours (the farm can be monitored and controlled remotely)

  • High degree of influence


For further information email rb.shared@gmail.com

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Time is precious. Make it count. Morning person or night owl, this job is for you.

Near public transit
Near public transit

Easy access and treehugger friendly workplace.

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Social gatherings and games; hang out with your colleagues.

Skill development
Skill development

We want to take you from good to great.

Working at
Growstack - part of Foodstack

Growstack is an open-source non-profit community project addressing the issues within our food system via vertical farming, to improve food quality and sustainability. Foodstack - the community behind Growstack - is for do'ers of all kinds who want to get involved hands-on with and share knowledge about food technology. We are everything from engineers, designers and entrepreneurs to food professionals, scientists and farmers. Growstack has an indoor growth lab and production facility in Østerbro, Copenhagen.

Read more about Growstack - part of Foodstack

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