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 mushrooms, 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 ecommerce company with a state of the art inhouse 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.

North Spore is seeking seasonal (October 17 - 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 production part of 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!

The e-commerce fulfillment part of the job includes packaging finished products into branded packaging with grace and care, and picking and packing orders for fulfillment for our e-commerce store. This means lots of folding boxes, moving small objects, taping things. You'll need to lift 50 lbs at least several times a day. 

No experience necessary, but proven attention to detail and the ability to keep a good pace are essential. 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 $17/hr and there is a one month probationary period. We offer earned paid time off, paid sick time, and retirement benefits with no employee match required (including for seasonal employees). We have a community garden and you are welcome to your own plot over the winter (for those cold-frame inclined) and next summer, even if you move on to other employment in the summer. You can have unlimited mushroom compost from spent blocks and old spawn.

The shift we are hiring for is Mon-Thur 7am-5:30pm. The job is full time and year round.

We are also hiring for year-round, full-time positions for both a production assistant and an e-commerce fulfillment team member. If interested in any or all of our open positions, please apply to each! You can use the same cover letter and resume.