A professional who coordinates packinghouse activities with harvesting of crops. Responsibilities include:

• Inspects farms to ascertain quantity of crops to be processed by packinghouse.
• Advises growers of best time for harvesting crops, considering such factors as maturity of and demand for products.
• Informs packinghouse supervisor and sales agents of crops to be processed to plan packinghouse activities and sales campaigns.
• Oversees packinghouse activities and assigns duties to subordinate supervisors.
• Reports needed packinghouse repairs and replacements to superiors.
• May hire and discharge packinghouse employees.