Post Harvest Manager

Brief Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

With direction from the Director of Production, the Post Harvest Manager is responsible for supporting and executing all

phases of processing beginning at plant harvest. Key phases include harvest, drying, bucking, curing, trimming,

remediation, and processing (some of these responsibilities may vary by shift). Post Harvest managers are responsible

for leading, developing and coaching assigned Leads and respective team members to effectively and compliantly

execute all assigned Processing tasks.

Responsibilities that will be overseen by the Post Harvest Manager are as follows but not limited to:

• Harvest
• Destemming
• Trimming
• Curing
• Compliance Testing of completed flower batches
• Remediation of failed product
• Responsible for overseeing day-to-day post-harvest activities and adjusting workflow and procedures to increase yields, efficiency, and overall team performance
• Maintain cleanliness of the facility, ensuring drying, curing, bucking, trimming, and remediation areas are cleaned to the highest standards daily
• Ensure optimal temperature, humidity, air movement, and other relevant conditions are achieved in the drying and curing areas. Ensures these environments are monitored, recorded, and maintained.
• Create and implement SOPs, methods, and policies within the processing department relating to Post-Harvest activities
• Ensure proper labeling, tagging and traceability within the seed-to-sale system. Ensure strains and batches are accounted for and tracked in real-time.
• Monitor stock of post-harvest supplies and consumables and coordinate with Procurement to order supplies as needed.
• Coordinates with the cultivation team to ensure efficient and effective harvests are completed on a regular basis
• Coordinate with Packaging Team and Extraction team to forecast time and volume of product ready for extraction and packaging
• Compile KPIs and daily/weekly productivity monitoring
• Oversees all plant activities relating to harvest and post-harvest processing while maintaining a high level of quality and focus on efficiency and productivity.
• Anticipate product flow through the processing department based on the Harvest Schedule and plan to ensure efficiency of batch progression from Harvest to Packaging
• Collects, compiles and reports harvest output data
• Coordinate release of completed flower batches to packaging including reporting of projections to all production managers
• Ensures the safe, accurate, compliant and timely production of high-quality products.
• Ensures quality control measures to ensure high-quality products
• Ensures daily compliance with company policies, SOPs and all state regulations (including testing)
• Reviews and actively monitors the labor production schedule (by shift including assigned breaks); advising on any potential adjustments to the schedule to fit the overall needs of the department based on the assigned goals designated by the DOP
• Oversees all plant activities relating to harvest and post-harvest processing while maintaining a high level of quality and focus on efficiency and productivity.
• Advises on ready to package dates and quantities to the National Director-Production and production team.
• Performs related duties and special projects, as assigned by the National Director-Production
• Other duties as assigned or required.
  
  

Direct Reports:

• Post-Harvest Supervisor
• Processing Technician II
  
  

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:

• Associate’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Minimum 2 years of working in a commercial cannabis production environment required
• Minimum 2 years of management experience preferred
• Experience training and coaching processing and packaging teams preferred
  
  

Summary

Additional Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The

requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Knowledge:

• Knowledge of basic computer & office equipment operations (Google Suite; Sheets, Docs, Drive. Microsoft Office; Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Office Equipment; Copiers, Printers, Telephone Systems).
• Advanced and extensive math required for inventory, projections, and counts.
• Prior experience with data tracking and accuracy
  
  

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work effectively as a team leader and coach managing a minimum of 10 people split between different tasks
• Ability to work effectively as a team leader demonstrating effective communication skills
• Ability to forecast product pipeline from post harvest to packaging based on familiarity to processes
• Excellent time-management skills
• Strong understanding of current biosafety SOPs; emphasis on keeping team compliant
• Ability to maintain confidentiality; reliable and honest
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team
• Ability to remain calm in periods of high stress or unusual activity
• Proficient with computers and various software
• Ability to track and monitor to drive reporting.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, draw valid conclusions and develop solutions
• Skill with seed-to-sale tracking systems
  
  

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

The work environment characteristics and physical demands 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.

• Extended time standing, walking, bending, and reaching
• Extended time sitting, typing and navigating computer systems
• Ability to lift and carry up to 50 pounds for a distance of 100 feet
• Close visual focus and reading required.
• This position occasionally requires the extended and repetitive use of arms, hands and fingers to sort, label and pack.