Grower, Manufacturing ​/ Production

Highline's Vision and Values:

Passionately nourish people, the environment and the community, through embracing our core values, which include:

We do the right thing, always. We lead the way. We are fanatical about quality. We are transparent in our relationships. We always consider the human element. We embrace diversity and inclusion.

Works closely with the Grower Manager and the growing team on all aspects related to the growing at assigned site(s) with a strong focus on head filling, farm operations and hygiene. Ensures the filling, growing and hygiene teams follow agreed-upon standards as set out in the in-house terminology which we refer to as “non-negotiables”, the cornerstone of which is the growing blueprint.

Your role as a team member includes maintaining proper staffing levels and attaining productivity goals and farm profitability by working closely with the Grower Manager and the Farm Manager. You may also provide input and assist with the establishment of annual budgets, and ensuring department leaders meet targets through strategic planning, cost management, monitoring continuous improvement initiatives and efficiencies.

• The Growing Blueprint is the key operational structure which provides the parameters within which to operate and within which all growing operations will be conducted. Any change or variance from the growing blueprint in your role must be clearly written on the crop chart immediately when that change is made by you or by your team member who physically makes that change.
  
  Creating a short “Whats App” message, photo or short video is the best form of communication to your fellow team members. The Growing Blueprint is the structure that allows us to learn and to improve as individual growers and as team members.

• As the Grower you will be on site at you’re the farm(s) every day from your standard and agreed upon start time until finished for at least five (5) days per calendar week with a clear schedule communicated on Whats App for your days off, allied to those of your fellow team members

• Responsible for overseeing supervising, and assigning work to the watering and disease associates, and completing their time cards timely and accurately.

• Responsible for ensuring you and your fellow growing team carries out the pre-filling room inspection checks, ensuring that the sheets are completed for every room

• Responsible for ensuring that there is a pre-planned routine ensuring that the Grower Manager, you as the grower or the trainee grower, is always present during the filling of the rooms and that your fellow team member will always be in clear and frequent contact with the Material Application Specialist

• Responsible for ensuring a high standard of washing, hygiene and sanitation on each of the sites

• Accountable for the filling quality and consistency as well as ensuring that the filling score paperwork is fully completed (compost density, caccing quantity and quality) and the casing soil before by either day 13 or before the blue square scores are done. Responsible along with the Grower Manager for signing off on each of the scores for each of the rooms filled in each week

• Responsible for ensuring that you or a member of your growing team are present for the calculation of the blue square scores along with the Harvesting Supervisor and the Farm Manager on or before day 13 (browns) and day 14 (whites). The scores are created in line with the SOP’s and immediately written on the cropping chart.

• You are responsible to ensure that the required standards and the monitoring and recording of each water application throughout the whole cycle of the crop is in line with the SOP’s. It is your ultimate responsibility to ensure that each watering…