Harvest Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Offload, harvest, clean, and reload flower rooms.
• Weigh, record, and label post-harvest materials.
• Ensure plants are hung in specific dry rooms.
• Manage, document, and destroy cultivation waste.
• Transfer properly dried plant material to trim and production teams.
• Maintain quality control measures in accordance with state and local laws.
• Adhere to company policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP).
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment within the facility and production areas.
• Immediately inform Harvest Manager of any system or process discrepancies.
• Visually inspect plants for any diseases, insects, and mold, reporting concerns to management for remediation.
• Document all activity using company’s track and trace system.
• Work within company continuous improvement system and strive to increase productivity.
• Regularly clean and sanitize harvest equipment, tools, and work areas, including applicable machines, containers, and dry rooms.
• Provide support to additional cultivation, harvest, and production teams as needed to achieve facility production goals.
• Perform other duties as assigned by management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Able to follow detailed instruction and capable of performing repetitive tasks.
• Must have a positive attitude and work well with others in a team environment.
• Willing to learn about, operate, and maintain facility equipment in a safe manner.
• Comfortable with heights, soil and water, and tight spaces.
• Able to safely climb, squat, bend, twist, kneel and stand for at least 8 hours per day, and lift up to 50 pounds.
• Must be 21 years of age or older and able to successfully register with the state’s cannabis commission as an agent.
• Must comply with all laws, regulations, and policies associated with the industry.

Preferred Qualifications

• A high school diploma, GED, or equivalent preferred.
• Previous experience in a regulated production facility (food, beverage, CPG, etc.) preferred.
• Basic knowledge of plant structure and horticulture preferred.

Physical and Mental Demands

• Frequent: Remain in a stationary position, move and/or position oneself, communicate, operate and/or prepare, place, position objects, tools, or controls.
• Sometimes: Move packages weighing up to 50 lb., stand for 90% of the time, ascend/descend a ladder to service the lights, filters, trellis netting and ceiling fans up to 25ft., traverse scaffolding, adjust focus.
• Occasionally: Exposed to moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock, noise level in the work environment is usually moderate, exposure to pollen, dust, dander, and other nature elements.

Working Environment

• Work is performed in a warehouse environment.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and risk of electrical shock.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.