Post Harvest Manager

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, including harvest, drying, bucking, curing, trimming, remediation, and processing.

Key responsibilities include overseeing day‑to‑day post‑harvest activities, developing and coaching team leads and members, ensuring compliance with SOPs, maintaining facility cleanliness, monitoring environmental conditions, creating SOPs, managing traceability, coordinating with procurement and other teams, compiling KPIs, forecasting product flow, reporting harvest output data, coordinating release of completed flower batches, ensuring timely production of high‑quality products, and performing related duties and special projects.

• 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
• 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.

• Post‑Harvest Supervisor
• Processing Technician II

• 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.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 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…