IPM Supervisor

Title: IPM Supervisor

Location: Watsonville, CA

Type: Full Time

Role Summary

Ohalo is hiring an IPM Supervisor to own integrated pest management primarily across Watsonville controlled-environment productions, and adjacent outdoor field areas — safeguarding breeding trials, plant production, and proprietary germplasm from pest, disease, and weed pressure.

Responsibilities:

• Own the greenhouse IPM program: scouting, trap monitoring, and early pest/disease identification
• Extend scouting and treatment coverage to outdoor field areas as needed
• Run biological control programs (beneficials, biofungicides), layered with targeted chemical treatments as needed
• Set and enforce hygiene, sanitation, exclusion, and quarantine protocols to protect plant material
• Manage pesticide/fungicide application, product selection, and resistance management
• Ensure compliance with CA DPR, county Ag Commissioner and Worker Protection Standard including applications logs reporting.
• Supervise, train, and hold accountable an IPM/scouting crew
• Manage relations