SM Harvester Assistant Manager

Job Description

Job Description

A​​bout South Mill Champs

For more than 90 years, South Mill Champs has been a leader and innovator in the mushroom-growing industry. Today, we proudly supply over 140 million pounds of fresh, frozen, and minimally processed mushrooms across North America. Our commitment to quality, efficiency, and customer satisfaction allows us to serve retail, food service, wholesale, and processing partners with excellence.

At South Mill Champs, we believe in leading by example—embracing innovation, sustainability, and continuous improvement in everything we do. Our strategic pillars connect our people, operations, community, and environmental practices, ensuring we make a positive impact from farm to plate.

As we continue to grow, we remain dedicated to providing exceptional mushrooms, nurturing strong partnerships, and creating an environment where employees can thrive as part of an industry-leading team.

Benefits

At South Mill Champs, we value our people and the important role they play in our success. Our benefits offering include competitive pay, health and wellness coverage, retirement savings options, paid vacation, sick time, short term disability and life insurance, employee discount program, and opportunities for growth and development within a supportive, team-oriented environment.

Position Summary:

The Harvesting Assistant Manager is responsible for supporting the Harvesting Managers at both Cochranville Farm and Oxford Farm, allocating approximately 50% of their time to each location. This position assists in overseeing daily harvesting operations and employee management and fills in for either Harvesting Manager during their absence.

The Harvest​​​ing Assistant Manager is responsible for ensuring that all mushrooms are harvested according to company standards, as outlined in the Harvesters’ Job Description. He or she is also responsible for ensuring the safety and food safety compliance of all employees working in the harvesting areas, fulfilling all orders from the Sales Department with the highest quality product, ensuring proper containers are available for harvesting, and maintaining adequate staffing levels to harvest, supervise, and transport mushrooms from the farms to the receiving dock in a timely and organized manner.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• ​​High school diploma preferred but not required.
• Must have harvesting experience and supervisory experience.
• Must be organized. 
• Must be able to use a computer including Word, Excel, Email, and other in-house computer programs. 
• Must have excellent communications skills. 
• Must have leadership qualities and the ability to solve problems.
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred
• Must have Driver’s License and qualify to drive under company driver’s policy.​

​Job Description​​
Role and Responsibilities:
• Ensure that the daily orders are filled with the proper quality and size. • Ensure enough help is on farm and request help from other farms if needed.• Maintain safe and organized working areas for all. • Complete accident reports, termination reports, and administer discipline as necessary and in accordance with company policies during the harvesting manager absence. • Ensure that monthly safety meetings are complete • Ensure that the payroll is accurately completed and turned in weekly during the Harvesting manager’s absence. • Ensure that all employees are treated equally and fairly.• Harvesting Assistant Manager will be responsible as well for delegating responsibility to achieve goals through the supervisors and harvesters.• He / She needs to start 15 minutes before 5:00 am.• Ensure that all harvesters are properly trained in Harvesting, Safety, Food Safety, and any other programs from upper management. • Work with growers, Sales Department, administration, and harvesters to formulate clear cut, well understood rules for harvesting mushrooms.• Review HCIP and in weight reports and present them to supervisors along with suggestions for improvement.• Comply with all general practices and policies which apply to the harvesting area.• Communicate any significant production drops or increases to Sales, Production, and Growing staff during the harvesting Manager absence.• Ensure proper quality and basket weights are being achieved• Assist Reconciling payroll into the system and harvester container counts.• Communicate anticipated production to Sales/Production Departments.• Communicate counts to the Sales Department on large and special orders along with any other numbers requested by Sales.• Ensure filling each order with the proper quantity and quality, if not request help from other farms. If help is not available communicate to the Sales dept and Farm Manager, the shortage information.