The Post-Harvest Planning Coordinator at Glass House Farms is responsible for coordinating, scheduling, and optimizing post-harvest workflows to ensure efficient movement of cannabis through drying, bucking, pre-trim, and final trimming stages.
This role plays a critical part in maximizing yield quality, meeting production targets, and maintaining compliance with all regulatory and quality standards.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
POST-HARVEST PLANNING & SCHEDULING
- Develop and maintain detailed post-harvest production schedules for drying, bucking, pre-trim, and final trimming operations.
- Coordinate harvest intake plans with cultivation teams to ensure smooth transitions into post-harvest.
- Balance labor, equipment, and space capacity across all post-harvest stages to avoid bottlenecks.
- Adjust schedules in real time based on harvest volume, product prioritization, and operational constraints.
OPERATIONAL COORDINATION
- Collaborate closely with post-harvest supervisors to execute daily and weekly production plans.
- Ensure proper sequencing of drying rooms, bucking lines, pre-trim workflows, and final trim output.
- Track work-in-progress (WIP) inventory throughout all post-harvest phases.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives to increase throughput and reduce waste.
DATA, REPORTING & SYSTEMS
- Maintain accurate production data in seed-to-sale and internal planning systems.
- Monitor KPIs such as cycle time, yields, labor efficiency, and throughput.
- Prepare and distribute daily, weekly, and monthly post-harvest planning reports.
- Identify trends, risks, and opportunities related to capacity and production planning.
QUALITY & COMPLIANCE
- Ensure all post-harvest planning aligns with state and local cannabis regulations.
- Support quality standards related to drying parameters, trim specifications, and product handling.
- Work with Quality and Compliance teams to ensure proper documentation and traceability.
CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION
- Act as a liaison between Cultivation, Post-Harvest, Manufacturing, and Sales Forecasting teams.
- Support demand planning by aligning post-harvest output with forecasted sales needs.
- Participate in planning meetings and provide insights on capacity and resource requirements.
- Use required PPE per OSHA regulations
- Perform other duties as assigned
Competencies:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
2–4 years of experience in production planning, operations coordination, or supply chain roles (cannabis, agriculture, food production, or manufacturing preferred).
- Strong understanding of post-harvest cannabis processes, including drying, bucking, pre-trim, and final trimming.
- Proficiency with spreadsheets, production planning tools, and ERP (SAP) systems.
- Excellent organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.
- Experience working in a large-scale cannabis cultivation or post-harvest facility.
- Familiarity with ERP, MRP, or advanced planning systems- SAP.
- Lean manufacturing or continuous improvement experience.
- Ability to analyze data and translate insights into actionable plans.
Education and/or Experience
- High School Diploma or GED
- 2 years full-time inventory control experience.
- Minimum 2 years full-time experience in Warehouse Shipping & Receiving.
Required:
- Able to work independently and in a team environment
- Ability to maintain a positive attitude
- Authorized to work in the United States
- This position requires a 40-hour minimum work week
- Must be able to write and communicate effectively with the entire team.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to stand for prolonged periods of time; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. Ability to use the tools necessary to perform works tasks, The ability The employee must be able to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 15-50 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Travel
May be required to travel between the office and the farm sites on occasion.
AAP/EEO
Statement GH Group, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
