DescriptionEssential 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
RequirementsBasic 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