Babylon Micro-Farms, Inc Hiring for Grower Job at Richmond, VA Full Time

About Babylon:

Babylon Micro-Farms is changing the future of farming with its environmentally friendly, software-enabled hydroponic farms. We serve commercial dining operators nationwide, from universities to senior living communities, providing them with access to 40+ crops, top-notch training/support, and a mobile app to help them grow fresh, nutritious produce on-site. Babylon is a high-growth, early-stage company based in the Scott’s Addition neighborhood of Richmond, VA.

Job Description:

1. Managing day to day plant operations at BabylonHQ:

• Ensure that all BabylonHQ micro-farms are clean, functional and full of plants
• Organizing Growth Trials in a Controlled Environment
• Executing Trials (Seeding, planting, harvesting, and cleaning)
• Data Collection (Yields, density, plant health, issues etc.)

2. Ensuring plant success for all Babylon customers

• Overall owner of Horticultural remote management
• Help Customer Success team with diagnosing and solving plant growth issues at customer sites
• Monitor dashboards and create and update tickets to pre-emptively address farm issues
• Run and update Customer Water quality index by arranging samples with water quality lab
• With time, build out support materials and guides to train non-Hort team members

3. Researching nutritional and health benefits of different crop varieties and creating content to support marketing collateral.

4. Hardware and software feedback – as an operator of our Micro-Farms consistent feedback will be essential in helping the engineering team to improve the user experience.

Experience Requirements:

4-year degree in Plant Science, Horticulture, or a related field. At least 1 year of hydroponic or vertical farming experience is required. Experience managing plant trials using scientific methods and accurate data collection is helpful. Plant cultivation, preferably in controlled environments. Customer success/support experience is a plus.

Desired Skills and Traits:

Passion for plants, growing, and indoor agriculture, highly organized, detail oriented, appreciation for customer success, tech-savvy, understanding of software, strong communication skills, ability to work independently and move projects forward.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $42,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• High school or equivalent (Preferred)

Experience:

• growing/horticulture: 1 year (Preferred)
• hydroponic or controlled environment growing: 1 year (Preferred)

Work Location: One location