The Harvest Production 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.

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.

Qualifications:

• Strong communication skills: phone, email, in-person.
• Bilingual (English & Spanish) with emphasis on accurate translation.
• Ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Analytical thinking to planning/preparing production based upon ever changing weather-related events.
• Must be able to effectively manage responsibilities under emergency pressures.
• Minimum of 3 years experience in Harvest Production Management.

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, field and when needed warehouse environment
• Exposed to warehouse elements: such as noise, cold, and moving equipment

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $70,000.00 - $100,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Moorpark, CA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Production planning: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• Driver's License (Required)

Work Location: In person

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