Post Harvest Manager

Description

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• • 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.

• Post-Harvest Supervisor
• Processing Technician II

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• 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

Headquartered in New York City, Acreage is a multi-state operator of cannabis ‎cultivation and retailing facilities in the U.S., including the company’s national retail store ‎brand, The Botanist. Acreage’s wide range of national and regionally available cannabis products include the award-winning Botanist brand, the highly recognizable Tweed brand, the Prime medical brand in Pennsylvania, the Innocent edibles brand in Illinois and others. Acreage also owns Universal Hemp, LLC, a hemp subsidiary dedicated to the distribution, marketing and sale of CBD products throughout the U.S.

Since its founding in 2011, Acreage has focused on building and scaling operations to create a ‎seamless, consumer-focused, branded experience. More information is available at www.acreageholdings.com.