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.