Job Ladder: Growing House

Farm manager I

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $25/hour or $40,000 a year
Typical Responsibilities:

• Daily crop monitoring, including harvest timing, quantity and quality
• Daily work scheduling
• Manage harvest list and harvester team coordinator and crew activities as needed
• Manage a team of Spanish-speaking employees
• Train new hires in harvesting, washing and packing
• Assist team as needed in any job big or small
• Maintain packing supply inventory
• Maintain cooler and storage spaces
• Monitor mushroom quality, packaging and labeling
• Maintain sanitization and food safety procedures
• Assist with truck packing and distribution as needed

Typical Requirements:

• 2 years farm management
• Proficient Spanish language skills

Proficient Microsoft Office skill including Excel and spreadsheets 

Farm Manager II

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $15/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Integration of safety, food safety and quality
• Continual productivity and quality monitoring
• Manage continual quality improvement (QIP) processes
• Oversee daily operations for the entire facility
• Management of key farm personnel
• Employee assessment and training
• Management of production schedules
• Inventory and order shipment management
• Food safety management
• Compliance management for various regulatory agencies at state and federal levels

Typical Requirements:

• Previous Experience in Farm Management/Agriculture

Quality Control Manager

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $15 to $20/hr
Typical Responsibilities:

• Examine product at the receiving level and verify that it was received according to the company standards.
• Monitor production processing via random QA audits
• Conduct necessary quality inspections using proper equipment and techniques
• Conduct statistical analysis on select processes and report findings
• Assist with problem solving – root cause analysis – corrective actions
• Maintain accurate documentation of quality inspection results
• Ensure incoming materials that are in compliance to required specifications
• Ensure outgoing products that are in compliance with required specifications
• Ensure production personnel are following proper procedure for ongoing production checks
• Assist with training and instruction for production operators in QA measuring procedures

Development and maintenance of quality procedures and work instructions:

• Audit and maintenance of compliance to required quality management system standards • Provide management with detailed
• Quality reports as required – daily, weekly, monthly, etc. • Other duties as required by quality management

Production Manager

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $15/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• prepping substrate
• inoculating substrate
• harvesting
• packaging
• delivery

Typical Requirements:

• 5 years professional continuous experience
• Able to pass a background check

Growing Technician

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $15/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Prevention of mushroom disease and crop pest control IPM (Integrated Pest Management) & entomology
• Trialling new growing techniques with the aim of enhancing yield and edible qualities of mushroom crops.

Typical Requirements:

• Currently enrolled in or has a four year degree in a STEM major including Agronomy, Horticulture, Botany, Plant Pathology, Entomology, or
• experience on a farm and majored in business or similar field.
• Bilingual in Spanish or speaking proficiency.
• Can demonstrate proficiency with Excel.
• Some experience or education in a Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics field is preferred.

Assistant Harvesting Manager

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $15/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Assure daily orders are accurately filled
• Maintain adequate team scheduling to complete the work
• Maintain safety and sanitization of all work areas
• Supervisory tasks such as employee coaching, discipline as necessary and reporting such as incident reports, accident reports, and termination reports
• Manage monthly safety meetings are done
• Complete weekly payroll submissions
• Assure employee satisfaction with fair treatment of all personnel under supervision

Typical Requirements:

• Ability to speak and comprehend English, Spanish, or both
• Ability to wear Personal Protective Equipment as required
• Frequently required to lift, up to 10 pounds; occasionally required to lift, up to 20 pounds.

Grower

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $11/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Oversight of growing operations.
• Managing growing room temperature decisions
• Managing moisture and crop timing decisions
• Adjusting carbon dioxide levels
• Recognizing and making decisions based on needs and observation of individual growing houses or room

Typical Requirements:

• High School Diploma or GED
• Prior experience in agriculture
• Additional requirements to meet [BUSINESS NAME] standards and policies

Harvesting Supervisor

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $11/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Monitor departmental activities including areas affecting safety, quality, sanitation and costs
• Manage team leaders and employee performance, including providing feedback and correction
• Work with managers to project daily harvesting needs
• Harvest mushrooms required for packing
• Ensure rooms are fully stocked with all needed supplies
• Monitor overall product quality
• Communicate and coordinate with other departments regarding repairs, scheduling changes, or issues needed to be resolved
• Monitor growing house or room environment and moisture levels
• Enforce compliance various state and federal rules and regulations
• Coordinate and monitor training of salaried and hourly personnel
• Provide employee feedback and performance reviews
• Coordinate with the Harvesting Manager and HR regarding hiring and termination of employees
• Perform accurate record-keeping

Typical Requirements:

• Familiarity with good manufacturing practices.
• Experience leading and following safety/security policies and procedures.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and computer-based applications.
• Ability to follow all sanitation and quality policies and procedures, and report and follow through on any deficiencies.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills.

General Farm Worker

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $10/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Detect and identify disease in mushrooms
• Perform routine care including planting, irrigating and harvesting of mushrooms
• Harvest mushrooms
• Examine quality of mushroom produce and prepare items for market/sale purposes
• Monitor mushroom growing conditions including set water lines, air flow and barn temperature
• Ensure the cleanness of the farm working area

Typical Requirements:

• No Previous Work Experience Required
• No formal education required

Mushroom Harvester

Typical Position Type: Full Time
Typical Days Per Week: 5 to 6
Typical Starting Wage or Salary: $10 to $20/hour
Typical Responsibilities:

• Harvesting mushrooms to fill daily orders
• Selecting quality product according to daily orders and Supervisor instruction
• Harvest from multiple beds and harvest diverse mushrooms type
• Maintain a safe work area free of obstacles, mushrooms and mushrooms stumps
• Carry harvested mushrooms packing area

Typical Requirements:

• Po previous work experience required
• No formal education required