GENERAL DESCRIPTION / PRIMARY PURPOSE:

Interface with harvesting crews, provide quality control supervision, responsible to provide highest level yields within harvesting crops. Manage appropriate labor requirements to harvest product volumes in a timely and cost efficient manner.  

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS/DUTIES OF THE POSITION:

•    Supervise Bud and Non-Bud harvesting crews assuring consistency in quality and pack.
•    Oversee labor productivity of harvesting crews.
•    Ability to plan for future harvest.
•    Determine when field haul equipment should be dispatched to a field, and how that equipment should enter and exit the harvesting area.
•    Accurately complete and on a timely basis the planning and scheduling of the harvest crews.
•    Determine the physical location of the harvest crews.
•    Communicate orally with crew management, forepersons, and employees and to have adequate written skills to prepare written documentation.
•    Make every effort to eliminate any type of safety incident.
•    Manage crew labor problems and hold to a minimum no unjustified grievances.
•    Maintain harvest equipment in same condition as received, less normal wear and tear. 
•    Stay in compliance with employee safety and food safety regulations
•    Planning and scheduling of Monthly, weekly and daily harvesting product volumes.  
•    Work with Farm Grower by providing harvest dates and coordinate with them on irrigation and other crop need for an efficient good quality harvest.  
•    Work in coordination with sales office providing Monthly, weekly and daily harvesting estimation with harvest volumes.   
•    Provide training and assisting information to crew’s forepersons to follow and comply with all Food Safety Requirements and GMPs as required to deliver a safe product to customers.  
•    Maintain records of all issues related to harvesting problems with the harvesting process on quality, and labor issues.  
•    Other duties as assigned