Planning Coordinator

About This Role

Description

Summary
The Planning Coordinator will work with the Cultivation departments to service a variety of their planning and administrative needs. They will coordinate with IPM, Metrc and Labor teams to assist with work orders, plant movement, timing of crop cycles, data collection and organization, and communication.

Responsibilities

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Work with growing, labor, Post-harvest, and IPM teams to ensure decisions are made in a timely manner and grower's have made final sign-off

• Update weekly work orders, as well as facilitate changes according to documented approval procedures

• Data entry and maintenance of information in Excel and centralized network

• Complete weekly planning tasks with Cultivation department including confirming next week's transfer orders, harvest orders, cloning orders, and planting orders

• Propose changes and alterations to future work orders as they arise, obtain proper sign-off and make sure proper departments are informed

• Track and monitor plant movement and activities as they occur, update actuals in planning documents

• Communicate adjustments to team members in Spanish and English

• Help to maintain quality standards of greenhouse activities, including updating documentation and getting proper sign-off from department managers

• To audit labor, IPM, and cultivation crews with quality reports, as well as SOPs are being adhered too.

• Help with MaintainX submittals.

• 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.

• Extremely organized

• Punctual

• Critical thinking/Problem solving skills

• Willingness to learn Cannabis cultivars and cultivation requirements

Qualifications

• Background in horticulture and/or Cannabis a preferred.

• Experience with Crop Planning a plus.

• Metrc experience preferred.

Required:

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel

• Must be 21+ years of age

• Bilingual preferred

• 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.
Work is located inside the greenhouse. Qualified applicant must be able to withstand hot, sunny and humid conditions.

Travel
May be required to travel between the office and the farm sites on occasion.

About Vangst:

Vangst is the cannabis industry's hiring platform. Vangst helps cannabis companies find the talent they need to grow their business. From on-demand gig workers to trained & credential full-time employees, Vangst has built the industry's go-to talent marketplace for all cannabis hiring. Vangst is proud to work with 1,200+ of the cannabis industry's leading businesses.

Since raising their seed round in 2018, Vangst has become one of the fastest-growing companies in the cannabis industry and was recognized as one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies.

Today, over 300,000 people have full-time jobs in the cannabis industry and this number is expected to triple over the next five years. Vangst is on a mission to fill every job in the cannabis industry.
Vangst's headquarters is in Denver, CO. Vangst is a Series B company backed by Lerer Hippeau, Colle Capital, Level One Fund, Snoop Dogg's Casa Verde Capital, and others.

Vangst provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training

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Licenses & Certifications

• METRC certification preferred