Supervisor of IPM

Purpose

The Supervisor of IPM is responsible for supervising and coordinating the IPM department with effective leadership and coordination to achieve the weekly scouting and treatment objectives. This role is responsible for supporting the Manager of Production with overseeing the IPM department, the plant health of the cultivation, the team members, and the supplies to achieve high quality product and yields. The Supervisor of IPM role must lead and participate in their job with professionalism and safety,
consistently. The Supervisor of IPM will report to the Manager of Production, while working in cohesion with the other Production departments to achieve most effective cannabis cultivation results.

Pay for this role starts at $43,000/year with some flexibility depending on fit

Essential Duties
Leadership Procedures & Tasks

• Oversee and develop the Integrated Pest Management program. Implement a program consisting of pesticide treatments, beneficial insects, cultural control, and mechanical removal of pests and affected material. Communicate, collaborate, and utilize internal and external resources to achieve best preventative strategies towards the cultivation rooms.
• Assist with providing effective leadership to employees to ensure a complete understanding of and alignment to PharmaCann’s vision, mission and values to maintain a positive work environment and a high level of morale. Ensure effective and appropriate communication with team members and IPM department staff to increase team unity and operative flow.
• Ensuring all staff are following company defined protocols. Enforce all company policies and regulations. Assist in establishing initial and ongoing training for employees to ensure an adequate level of understanding regarding guidelines, policies and procedures.
• Ensure all compliance requirements are met including facilitation of the immediate adjustment of practices to accommodate the dynamic changes that regularly occur.
• Continued research and analysis of remedies to plant health concerns.
• Support the Manager of Production with directing and supervising employees, including planning, assigning and directing work, examining performance and conducting evaluations, coaching, disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving employee issues. Monitor employee attendance, time off balances, time off requests, and all other attendance related processes. Facilitating the work of the IPM department employees, by providing answers to questions, as well as providing them with the tools and resources they need to perform their tasks.
• Assist with projects, including defining project scope, resources and achieving deliverables on time and within budget.
• Clear understanding of workflow throughout the cultivation facility.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Manager of Production.

Training Requirements

• This position will follow the direction and training by the Manager of Production assigned to the Lothian, MD cultivation facility. The role is expected to engage in proactive participation to be able to clearly lead to achieve the high standard cultivation practices, consistently and compliant.
• Training towards PharmaCann’s mission statement and leadership development.
• Understanding how to compliantly operate within the cultivation based on the state laws and regulations.

Workspace and Material Maintenance

• Provide proper training and PPE guidance towards the treatment, equipment, and IPM strategies.
• Guide and train IPM department members to maintain proper organization of the cultivation and areas where Technicians operate in.
• Ensure upkeep and maintenance of the equipment and growing rooms through participation, practice, training, guiding, and disciplining accordingly to achieve.
• Direct the communication and reporting of plant health issue concerns with the Manager of Production for proper awareness of organization and analysis.
• Ensuring that sufficient supplies for the IPM department are ordered and available. Manage procuring proper supplies and equipment, with recurring purchasing coordination with the Supply Chain department for essential replenishments towards workflow.
• Provide direction and support to associates with a safe, well maintained, and organized work area.

Compliance and Reporting

• Supervise and instruct the IPM department staff in upholding current laws and regulations towards the cultivation facility. Adapt to updated laws and regulations to implement safe and effective practices to sustain highest quality standards and efficiencies.
• Support the Manager of Production with updating and tracking all required information in the IPM department logs and spreadsheets daily.
• Monitor and address situations which may include lost tags/unidentified transfer. Determine plants for discarding/transfer.
• Supervise the IPM department staff in training and coordinate to ensure compliance with completing objectives. Coach, supervise, discipline, and analyze with staff to maintain compliant practices and workflow. Any compliance or safety mistake or error created must be addressed, reported, and resolved. Communication with appropriate leadership to ensure resolution.

Supervision

• Works under the direct supervision of the Manager of Production.
• This position is responsible for the supervision and direction of the IPM department staff for the Lothian, MD cultivation facility. Supervise staff, including hiring and developing, planning, assigning and directing work, appraising performance, rewarding and disciplining, addressing complaints and resolving employee issues.
• Ensure that individual and team performance meets PharmaCann’s standards of service and quality.

Job Requirement

• This position is expected to be available as needed to adherer to the responsibilities within and throughout the job description.
• Must be eligible for the position based on state and federal laws and regulations.

Working Conditions

• Able to use a computer and/or hand tools while sitting or standing for extended periods of time.
• Able to move about a typical office, manufacturing and warehouse environment. Conditions in cultivation can be under lights in hot areas, working with chemicals and fertilizers, while working with safety equipment.
• Able to kneel, bend, reach, rotate, and stoop on an intermittent to regular basis daily.
• Able to lift and move up to 50 pounds occasionally.
• Consistent on-time attendance for all scheduled shifts. Prepared for 40 hour work weeks within this position, with occasional overtime.
• Occasional travel by motor vehicle within the region as required.

Job Qualifications
Work Experience

• Preferred at least 1 year employment with PharmaCann to apply.
• Preferred at least 1 years experience in a commercial cannabis operation.
• Preferred at least 1 year of prior leadership experience to apply.
• Experience working in a fast-paced production environment required. Experience in supervising small groups of employees is preferred.
• Demonstrates ability to consistently exceed productivity and performance requirements. Shows the capability to handle multiple tasks at once under tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates high attention to detail and the ability to resolve conflict and complex issues.
• Demonstrates professional and respectful demeanor towards others. Demonstrates respectful verbal and written communication capability.
• Ability to create, utilize, and modify electronic documents. Electronic and technical skills preferred.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The term “qualified individual with a disability” means an individual with a disability who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of the position.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate professionally in person, over the telephone, through email and other electronic means, move about the office, handle various types of media and equipment, and visually or otherwise identify, observe, and assess.
• Knowledge of local, state, regional states, and federal employment laws relating to key areas of responsibility.

Education

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Manufacturing and/or Agricultural experience, training, and education preferred.

Skill Sets Preferred for Position:

• Agricultural leadership experience
• Biological/Horticultural studies experience
• Proactive, dedicated, and results-driven leadership skills
• Effective communication, training, and coaching skills
• Analytical, logistical, mechanical skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Problem solving team player
• Professional, quality, compliant, and safe decision making
• Willing to give and take direction