Post Harvest Supervisor

Green Thumb • Holyoke, MA

3d • $60,000 - $75,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Post-Harvest Supervisor provides post-harvest process management and supervises the activities and operations of the post-harvest team from Harvest until Packaging while abiding by laws, rules, policies, procedures, and operational guidelines. This role involves coordinating with various leadership members to ensure a seamless transition of product and maintaining high-quality end product flower ready for packaging. The supervisor will also manage all aspects of flower quality retention, post-harvest processes, and dry room/flower storage operational procedures, including data collection and analysis.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of cannabis experience in growing or post-harvest processing
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive leadership responsibility with a proven track record of building and developing teams
• Strong ability to effectively present information and responds to questions from senior management, function heads, managers, supervisors and all levels of employees.
• Highly collaborative influencer who is an effective communicator and relation builder/networker
• Ability to deliver specific organizational goals and effectively develop, grow and manage a team to achieve objectives.
• Highly organized, with obsessive attention to detail
• Experienced in Excel, data collection, and entry.
• Highly motivated, self-directed, innovative, and able to work independently or among teams with keen judgment, common sense and resourcefulness.
• Attention to detail and ability to focus on one task for extended periods of time.
• Adapts and thrives in a demanding, start-up, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to work independently throughout a workday with given directives.
• Unassailable integrity and ethics
• Must have a solid understanding of Marijuana laws, rules and regulations and passion to further their understanding and knowledge of the industry and the laws.
• Must pass any and all required background checks.
• Must be and remain compliant with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry.
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age.
• Must be approved by state badging agency to work in cannabis industry.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to perform grasping, talking, hearing, seeing and repetitive motions.
• Must be able to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time while maintaining focus.

Nice To Haves

• Associate's degree or Certifications preferred
• Research skills and familiarity with scientific method preferred.

Responsibilities

• Follow practices and standards for post-harvest procedures in the network.
• Supervise the post-harvest site teams including post-harvest leads and technicians.
• Coordinate with other members of site leadership to manage a seamless transition of product from the live plant in grow rooms to high-quality end product flower ready for packaging.
• Coordinate with VPs of Cultivation, Director of Post-harvest, GM/ operation managers, Head Grower and Assistant Head Grower in all aspects of Post harvest/flower quality, providing detailed feedback on KPI and progress.
• Identify and escalate any issues that will impact KPIs and flower quality to local leadership and the Director of post-harvest.
• Manage all aspects of Flower quality retention and post-harvest processes onsite.
• Manage Dry room/flower storage operational procedures including water activity and moisture analysis data collection.
• Manage post-harvest labor model and expectations for throughput and flower quality retention.
• Maintain accurate WIP (work in process) inventory and update systems with inventory data accordingly; including performing regular physical inventory counts.
• Ensure accurate input and reporting of site KPI (web based KPI tracker).
• Implementation of SOP, TAMU, WS (pic and videos) for post-harvest operational processes in a way that the teams can clearly understand and be trained effectively.
• Harvest
• Breakdown
• Trim (hand and mechanical)
• Sorting
• Deliver Monthly Flower quality and KPI summaries to the Director, Post Harvest.
• Engage in flower quality/National post-harvest team meetings and direction setting.
• Provide feedback for machinability/post-harvest processability to Director, post-harvest on a strain-by-strain basis.
• Manage a team in a fast paced, dynamic environment.

Benefits

• Competitive pay based on experience, qualifications, and/or location
• Positions may be eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree