- The Post-Harvest Lead is responsible for managing post-harvest cannabis operations, including buck down, curing, sorting, trimming, and ensuring compliance with state regulations in a fast-paced environment.
- Key duties include coordinating daily workflow, maintaining quality standards, training new staff, reporting to management, and ensuring cleanliness and adherence to standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Minimum qualifications include being at least 21 years old, ability to lift up to 50 pounds, passing a background check, and having reliable transportation.
- The role requires physical stamina such as standing 90% of the time, working at heights up to 25 feet, and tolerance to environmental factors like temperature changes, pollen, dust, and noise in a warehouse setting.
Job Summary
The Post-Harvest Lead is a full-time non-exempt position responsible for overseeing and executing post-harvest operations including cannabis buck down, curing, sorting, trimming, and related processes. This role requires strong attention to detail, compliance with state regulations, and the ability to work in a fast-paced production environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Coordinate daily workflow of post-harvest staff
• Ensure quality standards are met during buck down, curing, sorting, and trimming
• Assist with training and onboarding new specialists
• Report progress, challenges, and staffing needs to management
• Maintain cleanliness and organization of post-harvest work areas
• Support compliance and adherence to SOPs
• Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
• Must be at least 21 years of age
• Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds
• Must pass a background check in compliance with state regulations
• Must have reliable transportation
Preferred Qualifications
Physical and Mental Demands
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to remain in a stationary position, move and/or position oneself, communicate, operate and/or prepare, place, position objects, tools, or controls. The employee must occasionally move packages weighing up to 50 lb. Able to stand for 90% of the time. Comfortable with heights, occasionally ascends/descends a ladder to service the lights, filters, trellis netting and ceiling fans up to 25ft. Comfortable working atop and traversing scaffolding, when required. Comfortable with changing environment temperatures and humidity. Exposure to pollen, dust, dander, and other nature elements. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close observation and the ability to adjust focus. The mental and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual, with or without reasonable accommodation, to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
Working Environment
Work is performed in a warehouse environment. The employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts and the risk of electrical shock. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those individual encounters while performing the essential functions of this position.