Post Harvest Manager

Acreage Holdings; Egg Harbor Township (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A cannabis production company located in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, is seeking a Post Harvest Manager. This role involves overseeing all post-harvest activities, ensuring compliance with SOPs, and maintaining a clean facility. The ideal candidate should have at least 2 years of experience in commercial cannabis production and management experience. Strong leadership, time management, and attention to detail are key skills required for success in this role.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in a commercial cannabis production environment.
• Management experience preferred.
• Experience training and coaching teams preferred.
• Experience training processing/packaging teams preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day post-harvest activities.
• Ensure compliance with SOPs and state regulations.
• Maintain facility cleanliness and environmental conditions.
• Create and implement SOPs for post-harvest processing.
• Coordinate with various teams for efficient product flow.
• Ensure traceability and real-time tracking of strains and batches.
• Coordinate with Procurement, Packaging, and Extraction teams.
• Compile KPIs and monitor productivity.

Skills

Team leadership

Time management

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Ability to work under stress

Proficient with computers and software

Confidentiality

Attention to Detail

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Education

Associate’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Google Suite

Microsoft Office

Seed-to-sale tracking systems

Job 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, 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.

Direct Reports

• Post‑Harvest Supervisor
• Processing Technician II

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.

Additional Qualifications

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.

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

• 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.