Technical Operations, Farmless

• Some scar tissue. You have more than three years of experience in a startup, or another technically demanding environment. You’ve seen plans break, priorities change, and good ideas fail. You thrive on variety and understand urgency
• Own the problem. You don’t wait for a perfectly defined scope. If something is broken, you find a solution proactively
• Technically curious. You don’t need to be an engineer, but you enjoy understanding how things work and aren’t intimidated by equipment, drawings, contractors or unfamiliar technical problems
• Think in systems. Repetitive work bothers you. You naturally simplify processes, automate workflows, and build tools that help a small team do more
• Low ego, high ambition. You’re happy thinking about the big picture and equally happy sorting out something mundane that simply needs to get done
• This is a mission, not just a job. The possibility of producing dramatically more sustainable and ethical food genuinely excites you

Desirable

• We’re looking for a high-agency technical generalist who likes getting their hands dirty, enjoys messy operational and physical problems, and naturally owns problems that do not fit neatly into anyone else’s responsibilities
• You’ll work closely with the CEO and our finance & operations person
• You might help renovate our facility, source a piece of equipment, fix something that broke in the factory, navigate a permit, or write a technical grant
• You might also work on commercialising a new ingredient, negotiate with suppliers, set up a new supply chain, or take on one of the many unexpected problems that come with building a deep-tech company
• This is not your typical desk operations role
• One day you might be working on a new utility installation, the next negotiating with a supplier, drafting a technical grant application, fixing a logistics bottleneck, or figuring out how to get a piece of equipment through a building that was never designed for it
• You don’t need to be the deepest technical expert in every room
• You do need to understand technical problems quickly, ask good questions, bring the right people together, and keep pushing until things are done
• Keep everything running. Own day-to-day ops including in managing supply chains, and dozens of small projects
• Take on technical projects. Help with renovations, equipment sourcing, utilities, contractors, installations and whatever else needs to be built, fixed or improved
• Build for scale. Turn growing pains into internal systems that help us make decisions faster
• Do stuff that doesn’t scale. Moving fast often comes from doing unglamorous things properly. You’ll jump into whatever matters most, whether or not it was in the original job description