JOB FILLED - Harvest Manager

The Harvest Manager will be responsible for managing the activities of all the harvest programs, ensuring efficient and timely execution of harvest operations, and maintaining high-quality standards throughout the process. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in agriculture, exceptional communication, organizational, leadership skills, and a passion for optimizing production processes.

Job Responsibilities:

• Communicate with the Growing Team on a daily/weekly/monthly basis to ensure optimal quality harvest for sales, coordinate harvest presentations, proactively addressing any potential lapses in supply quality.
• Manage and track a rolling three-week harvest forecast, working with the Production Team to establish daily harvest presentations that balance growing demands and sales demands.
• Provide real-time, accurate quality and availability updates to the Sales Team, ensuring they are well-informed to meet customer needs.
• Monitor and manage the aging of all products in various cooler locations, ensuring accurate real-time information for the Sales Team to assign specific products to customer orders based on quality and shelf life.
• Manage and track logistics on a daily basis for all Mexico truck crossings, including coordinating routing to the appropriate cooler locations.
• Maintain steady production with outside growers, ensuring adherence to harvest requirements, verifying agreement costs per pack out, and proactively communicating any potential lapses in supply flow or quality.
• Run weekly Green Onion presentation sales reports, allowing for the preparation of a comprehensive weekly forecast of presentations to all Growers.
• Travel as required to grower sites in order to establish strong relationships with growers and coordinators.
• Perform other related duties not specified above as well as other duties enumerated.

Job Skills and Abilities:

• Strong communication skills a must via: phone, email, direct person.
• Effective bilingual communication in Spanish and English with emphasis on accurate translation.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Methodical and analytic thinking critical to planning/preparing production based upon ever changing weather-related events.
• Must be able to effectively manage responsibilities under emergency pressures.

Physical Requirements

• Required to lift up to 25 lbs.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach and move about the facility.

Work Environment:

• Work performed in a combination of office and when needed warehouse environment
• Exposed to warehouse elements: such as noise, cold, and moving equipment