Harvest Agent

**Harvest Agent - Kind Therapeutics USA**

504 E 1st St. Hagerstown, MD 21740

**Position Description**

The Harvest Agent performs duties as assigned within the harvest department including: defoliating and physically harvesting plants, weight recording, maintaining environmental conditions, destemming, curing procedures, routine cleaning, and regulatory compliance that adheres to the regulations established by the Maryland Medical Cannabis Commission.

**Duties and Responsibilities**
- Maintains performance in a high stress-fast paced work environment.
- Understanding that all sub departments within production are tied to measurable performance metrics and strives to achieve expected harvesting rates, production weights, and buck down speeds through focused and prompt attention to the job at hand.
- The harvest agent works together with the harvest team to accomplish all harvest team duties. This includes but not limited to defoliating grow rooms before harvest, physically harvesting the plants and hanging them to dry, monitoring product conditions, destemming dried product and batching it accordingly within tracking systems, maintaining environmental conditions of dry and cure rooms, adhering to the burping schedule, log reporting, routine department cleaning, and all other direction set forth by the Harvest Lead and Leadership Team.
- The harvest agent works within the harvest department but can be utilized to support other sub departments within the facility as directed by the supervisor. The Harvest Agent reports directly to the Harvest Lead.
- Notifies direct supervisors if potential bottlenecks and/or issues related to production operations arise.
- Maintains professional and technical cannabis knowledge by attending workshops, reviewing legitimate publications, establishing networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Ensures the stability and reputation of the marijuana cultivation facility by complying with legal requirements at the local and state levels.

**Job Requirements**
- Must have a valid driver’s license or ID and reliable transportation
- A State and Federal background check and pre-employment drug test.
- Ability to stand, bend/twist, sit, crouch, and use full range of motion for hours at a time to complete physical job duties.
- Certain situations require that work is completed on weekends, after hours, and holidays.
- Harvest team burping schedule requires select team members to work on the weekends when it’s their day on the rotating schedule.**

**Qualifications**
- Reliable; dependable
- Focused and results driven
- High attention to detail
- Ability to work within groups and solo
- Flexibility to pivot on tasks as directed
- Previous cannabis industry experience, a plus

**Company Logistics**

Kind Therapeutics USA is a medical cannabis company dedicated to providing medical cannabis to Maryland certified patients and caregivers. Kind is a premier Grower and Processor of medical cannabis products serving Maryland and operates in a highly controlled environment providing a broad range of high quality, competitively priced medical cannabis products. Kind is dedicated to bringing legitimacy to the cannabis industry, operates on the highest level of integrity and strictly adheres to the regulations established by the Natalie LaPrade Medical Cannabis Commission.

**Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action**

Pay: $17.00 per hour

Work Location: In person