APATA LIMITED JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Harvest Co-ordinator
APATA LIMITED
JOB DESCRIPTION
Directly Responsible To: General Manager, Grower Services
Functional Relationship With: Global Inventory Manager
Transport, Packaging and Logistics Manager
Site Managers, Apata & Pyes Pa Sites
Grower Services Team
Technical Services Manager
Coolstore Manager
Key accountabilities:
The Harvest Co-ordinator is an administrative role to facilitate the following:
Harvest planning
• Pre-harvest organisation with contractors re: documentation requirements, daily coordination
with picking contractors re: bin requirements, fruit volumes and transport
requirements.
• Ensure that all pre harvest requirements are in place to prior to the harvest of product
(spray dairies, contracts, registrations etc…)
• Ensure all bin cards are available and correct prior to harvest of fruit.
• Be conversant with all protocols for Gold fruit.
• Liaise with Grower Services to ensure orchard mapping is up to date for harvest
• Ensure AgFirst registration of maturity areas
Harvest Budget
• Manage the harvest budget.
Harvest delivery
• Involvement in developing pre-season pick / pack plan
• Manage daily harvest meetings to ensure harvest milestones are achieved.
• Draw up harvest plans daily and weekly by region and category, to create labour transport
and machinery efficiencies.
• Maintain effective communication between Contractors, Transporters, Site Managers,
Global Inventory Manager, Coolstore Manager and Grower Services.
• Complete understanding of and responsibility for documentation and audit trail procedures.
• Daily reports to management including but not confined to:
o Maturity Testing
o Canopy Stock-take
o Curing
o Picking capacity
o Packing Capacity
• Organise and co-ordinate bin requirements, fruit flow numbers and transport.
• Ensure accurate daily recording and retention of submit dockets, and relay to Management
for packing schedules.

• Daily contact with Transport, Packaging & Logistics Manager to ensure empty bin flow back
to picking gangs is maintained.
• With the Transport, Packaging & Logistics Manager create inventory of all field bins by size
and category pre-season.
• Ensure discrepancies in bin tallies are investigated and amended as soon as possible.
Daily checks with Packhouse Managers for bins packed against submit documentation.
• Liaise with Transport, Packaging & Logistics Manager to maintain an orderly flow of
vehicles for ease of access loading, unloading and minimising congestion.
• Maintain contact with Global Inventory Manager re: fruit flow and volumes during Bin Store
and C.A. harvest.
• Ensure flow of product is meeting projected harvest targets.
• Be proficient with gaining information readily from The Canopy website.
• Manage the flow of fruit to optimise efficiencies where supply caps and Taste Bands are
involved.
• Be conversant with current Entity rules.
• Liaise with Technical Services Manager and Global Inventory Manager to ensure you are
familiar with the profile management from field (i.e. Size profile, quality, volume, taste etc).
• Select appropriate weather resources and update daily harvest meetings to support
decision making.
• Provide data and update daily harvest meeting with fruit packed versus fruit to be packed.