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DIRECTOR OF HARVEST OPERATIONS

Bring World-Class Harvest Discipline to an Industry Ready for It Trimco | California Reports to: Founder & CEO Direct reports: Harvest Team Leads and Load/Unload Team Leads — exact count and structure still being finalized

Location:

Hanford, California (primary base) — this is a traveling role, supporting other Trimco facilities as they come online

Travel:

Frequent, tied to active harvest and dry/cure operations across Trimco's footprint

Compensation:

[$110,000-$125,000]

YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO RACE THE HARVEST CLOCK.

There is a particular kind of operator we're looking for. You've worked in agriculture where the harvest doesn't wait. Where a crop coming out of the field starts a clock. Where weather can change the plan overnight. Where equipment downtime is measured in lost product, not just lost hours. Where labor, trucks, machinery, facilities, and timing all have to come together — and where getting a perishable crop from the field into the right environment quickly can be the difference between protecting millions of dollars of value and losing it. If you've led operations in fresh produce, berries, leafy greens, grapes, tree fruit, vegetables, or another time-sensitive agricultural operation, you understand the mentality. Harvest is not a schedule. It is a mission. Trimco is looking for a Director of Harvest Operations who can bring that level of agricultural discipline, urgency, and operating sophistication to one of the fastest-evolving segments of California agriculture.

WHAT WE'RE BUILDING

Trimco is building the operating platform to process one million pounds of cannabis annually by 2029. That means more facilities. More harvests. More people. More equipment. More complexity. Hanford launches with two buildings and is already slated to double in six months, then double again in twelve. This is not a steady-state operation you're inheriting. It's one you're building while it's still taking shape. As Hanford scales toward that footprint, expect the structure around this role, above it and below it, to keep evolving. This seat won't be the only thing that changes shape. And it means the systems that got us here will not be the systems that get us there. We need an agricultural operator who knows how to build those systems. Someone who can walk into a harvest operation and see the entire chessboard: Crop. Labor. Equipment. Trucks. Timing. Yield. Cost. Safety. Then turn all of it into a repeatable operating machine. This isn't a role for someone who wants to inherit a finished system. We want the person who knows how to build one.

THE MISSION

Your mission is simple to describe and difficult to execute: Build an operating system capable of moving enormous volumes of harvested product from field to controlled environment — safely, predictably, profitably, and within an unforgiving biological window. This role owns one continuous chain: farm, harvest, drying, and curing, ending the moment product is handed off to Bucking. Facility floor operations, the processing side, Production Managers, and everything from Bucking through shipping, are a separate reporting line under Trimco's Founder. That boundary is deliberate, not a limitation. You'll have one clear mandate and one clear boss, not a role diluted across two different jobs. This is not primarily a people-management role. The crews you'll lead are small next to the facility side of the business. What this seat is actually judged on is whether the product survives its most vulnerable window intact: the facility that holds it, the equipment that conditions it, the trucks that move it, and the hands that hang it, all working without a single point of failure. You will build something that doesn't exist yet, starting at Hanford. Up to three seasonal harvest crews, ten to thirty people each, deployed during active windows and released between them. Wet-weight intake of up to 25,000 lbs per day during those windows, moved by trucks you are responsible for loading correctly and keeping in spec for the full ride. You will also own Drying & Curing outright: starting with two dry room buildings at launch, more as Hanford scales, each needing its own load and unload team. The real accountability is the facility itself: adequate equipment, real redundancy, and environmental set points held on target in real time, every hour product is in the room, not just checked once a shift. Exactly how many team leads that takes as the site grows is still being worked out. You'll have real input in shaping it, not just executing something already decided. You will develop the people, processes, equipment standards, training systems, and operating rhythms that make all of this repeatable. And when harvest is underway, you will understand something instinctively: The clock is running.

WHAT YOU'LL OWN

Facility & Equipment Integrity Own the physical dry room facility itself: is the equipment adequate for the volume it needs to hold, and is there redundancy so a single failure doesn't cost you a room full of product. If a compressor or dehumidifier fails at 2:00 AM with a full room hanging, the answer cannot be that there's no backup. That's a failure of planning, not bad luck. Environmental Control, in Real Time Once product is inside the facility, you own it. Every environmental set point, temperature, humidity, airflow, held on target continuously, not checked once a shift and hoped for. You will know the state of every room in real time and act the moment something drifts, before it becomes lost product. Transportation & Logistics Own the move from field to facility. Trucks loaded correctly, volume standard met on every load, environmental set points held for the full transport window, and unloaded on arrival within the time limit, every time. A load that arrives late, underloaded, or out of environmental spec is value already lost before it ever reaches a dry room. Harvest Execution Build and lead the systems responsible for getting harvested product out of the field and into transport within the required window. You will coordinate harvesting equipment, transportation, and dry room readiness around the biological reality of the crop. When conditions change, you adjust. When equipment goes down, you respond. Continuous Improvement None of the above is ever finished. Facility redundancy, environmental control, loading and transport discipline, hanging procedure, all of it gets measured and improved every cycle, not set once and left alone. A Traveling, Multi-Facility Role This role is based at Hanford, which is quickly becoming a flagship site for Trimco. As Trimco opens additional facilities, you'll travel to help stand up harvest and dry/cure operations there too, using the same discipline you build at Hanford. This is not a fixed, finished org chart. You're building the playbook as Trimco grows, not inheriting one. Build the Harvest Operating System Turn tribal knowledge into repeatable execution. Develop the SOPs, training, and operating standards that make facility integrity, environmental control, and transport discipline repeatable, season after season. We don't need SOPs that sit in binders. We need systems that protect the product whether or not you're standing there. People, in Proportion This role does oversee people, up to three seasonal harvest crews and the load/unload teams running the dry rooms, but it is not primarily a labor-management role. The headcount here is small next to the facility side of the business. What this seat is actually judged on is whether the product survives its most vulnerable window intact, not how many people report to it. Where you do lead people, the standard holds: crews that can scale up fast for a window and release cleanly between them, treated with the same discipline and respect as everyone else at Trimco. Equipment & Mechanization Own the operational standards surrounding both mechanized and hand harvesting. Trimco runs both, and you will need real experience with mechanized harvest equipment, combines or comparable, alongside crews doing hand work. You should be comfortable around serious agricultural equipment and understand the fundamentals of uptime, preventive maintenance, operator training, safety, capacity, bottlenecks, and contingency planning. When a critical machine stops during harvest, the answer cannot simply be, "Maintenance is looking at it." The operation needs a plan. Yield & Product Protection Know where the chain is winning and where it is leaking value. Build visibility into wet-to-dry yield, environmental control, product loss, equipment downtime, and cost. Then use those numbers to make the operation better. Every load. Every room. Every year. Cost Performance Operational excellence eventually shows up in the financials. You will be accountable for the cost side of harvest, transport, and dry/cure: equipment cost, crew cost, and product lost to timing, transport, or environmental failure, and expected to understand how your operating decisions move those numbers. We want someone who can speak both languages: the field and the ledger. Compliance & Safety Carry a general working knowledge of regulatory compliance, broader than cannabis rules alone: Cal OSHA field and equipment safety, DOT and transport requirements for moving wet product, agricultural labor law, and METRC as it applies at harvest and intake. This is a baseline expectation at this level, not a specialty. Trimco has a dedicated Compliance Officer for the substantive program, and you will lean on that expertise for anything beyond your own domain. Within harvest and dry/cure, you are the responsible party for day-to-day compliance and safety.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

Your resume may say: Director of Operations. VP of Operations. Harvest Manager. Regional Operations Manager. Farm Operations Director. Plant Manager. Production Director. The title matters less than what you've actually been responsible for. We're especially interested in people coming from agricultural environments involving highly perishable or time-sensitive crops, including: Fresh produce Leafy greens Berries Grapes Tree fruit Vegetables Fresh-cut processing Packhouse operations Other crops where post-harvest timing materially affects quality or value Cannabis experience is not required. In fact, we prefer you don't have experience in it. In fact, some of the operating disciplines we want were perfected outside cannabis.

YOU'VE PROBABLY DONE THINGS LIKE THIS BEFORE

You've watched weather forecasts because tomorrow's harvest depended on them. You've had hundreds of people waiting on a decision. You've had equipment fail at exactly the wrong moment. You've reorganized crews in real time. You've managed the handoff between field operations, transportation, cooling, packing, processing, or storage. You've made decisions at 5:00 AM because waiting until 8:00 AM wasn't an option. You've looked at a harvest window and worked backward to determine exactly what labor, equipment, transportation, and capacity needed to be ready. You've learned that agriculture doesn't care what the spreadsheet said was supposed to happen. And you've built teams capable of responding anyway. If that world feels familiar, we should talk.

WHAT YOU BRING

We care more about demonstrated operating ability than perfect credentials.

We are looking for:

Significant leadership experience in agriculture or agricultural processing Direct experience with perishable or time-sensitive crops strongly preferred Experience managing the transition from field harvest into cooling, storage, packing, processing, or another controlled post-harvest environment Demonstrated ability to lead a crew, even a small one, well, not just at scale Experience with facility equipment reliability, redundancy planning, or environmental control systems (HVAC, dehumidification, cold chain, or comparable) Hands-on familiarity with mechanized harvesting or comparable heavy agricultural equipment Experience with climate-controlled transport or logistics where in-transit conditions and load standards actually mattered Experience developing SOPs, training systems, KPIs, and management accountability Financial literacy and experience managing budgets or P&L performance General working knowledge of regulatory compliance (Cal OSHA, DOT/transport, agricultural labor law, METRC), not limited to cannabis-specific rules Comfort scaling a small crew up and down with seasonal demand, not just running a fixed headcount Genuine comfort with organizational ambiguity — this role will help define its own structure as Trimco grows, not just execute one already fixed Real proficiency in Google Sheets — Trimco's entire production log system runs on it, and this isn't optional at this level Fluency in English and Spanish Willingness to travel to support other Trimco facilities as they come online Willingness to work the hours agriculture sometimes demands during critical harvest windows A degree in agriculture, plant science, biology, engineering, operations, or a related field is valuable. A career spent successfully protecting a perishable product under a hard clock is more valuable.

THE PERSON WHO WILL THRIVE HERE

You are calm when the operation isn't. You don't confuse activity with execution. You can move comfortably from a field conversation with a crew leader to a P&L review with the CEO. You believe standards matter. You believe numbers matter. You believe people matter. You don't need perfect information to make a good decision. You don't tolerate recurring problems becoming "just the way we do things." And you get genuine satisfaction from taking something complicated and making it run beautifully.

OUR CULTURE

At Trimco, our cultural agreement is reciprocal: You owe Trimco Unbeatable and Insanely Driven. Trimco owes you People First and Uplifting. Together, we are Fiercely Reputational. Unbeatable means we pursue standards that are difficult to reach and continuously improve how we operate. Insanely Driven means we bring intensity, ownership, and persistence to meaningful work. People First means performance never gives us permission to forget the human beings doing the work. Uplifting means leadership should create opportunity, develop people, and leave teams stronger. Fiercely Reputational means our word matters. We protect our reputation with our customers, our employees, our partners, and each other. Our leadership philosophy is rooted in servant leadership: Vision. Resource Allocation. Boundary Setting. Empathy. Conflict Resolution. Safety. Trust. Leadership here isn't granted by a title. It is earned through what happens around you.

WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Cannabis is becoming a sophisticated agricultural industry. The companies that win the next chapter won't simply grow more product. They will build better operating systems. Trimco intends to be one of those companies. We're looking for someone who has spent years learning lessons in agriculture that this industry is only beginning to learn — and who wants the opportunity to apply those lessons while helping build something at significant scale. If you've spent your career beating the harvest clock, we want to meet you.

Pay:

$100,000.00 - $120,000.00 per year

Experience:

agricultural: 5 years (Required)

Google Sheets/Excel Advanced:

5 years (Required) Supply chain: 5 years (Preferred) Willingness to travel: 75% (Required)

Work Location:

In person