Manager, Operations

Job Type: Full-Time; Exempt

Who You Are:

As Operations Manager, you will oversee and manage personnel to perform all the tasks necessary to produce a variety of products to our high standards. You will oversee and maintain quality control measures to ensure high quality product and carry out day-to-day tasks including: prepping, packaging, and our processing lab. As a Sr. Operations Manager, you must monitor and maintain departmental standards in accordance with the standards of the state regulatory bodies and Curaleaf.

What You'll Do:

• Clean and maintain equipment and processing facility following current good manufacturing practices (cGMP), and standard operating procedures; comply with legal regulations; monitor environment.
• Oversee production by creating and reviewing production schedule; study and clarify specifications; calculate requirements; assemble and accurately weigh materials and supplies.
• Coordination of the day-to-day activities of this team of production workers to ensure that manufacturing operations run according to established production specifications and schedules
• Establish clear goals and metrics for the teams
• Establish and maintain appropriate systems or measuring various aspects of operational effectiveness
• Manage expenditures within budgets
• Coach, mentor and direct staff to include issuing disciplinary action and addressing issues.
• Contribute to operational and strategic plans
• Plan, develop and implement strategy for team to meet established targets for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost and Productivity
• Monitoring of volume and quality of output and adjustment of tasks when necessary to ensure production throughput targets are met
• Monitor employee performance daily to ensure that overall product quality and company safety standards are consistently executed
• QA/QC duties that require analytical testing for quality and consistency; data review
• Operate highly sophisticated equipment
• Maintains inventory records of supplies, materials, and equipment
• Create SOPs, training records, and related documentation
• Maintain material safety data sheets for all department chemicals and products.
• Report to the Director of Operations on a weekly basis with updates regarding production and processing schedule.

Compliance:

• Ensure departmental compliance with state regulations and federal and state law.
• Assure that the operation adheres to all business and industry license requirements.
• Maintain strict inventory records of all plant materials, chemicals and equipment used in the processing areas and documents production by completing forms, reports, logs and records

What You'll Bring:

• BS/BA Degree or greater in Engineering, Chemistry or equivalent
• At least 5 years of experience in a manufacturing setting
• Experience managing/supervising a large team
• Proven ability to adapt to an organization's unique culture, environment, employees, and priorities
• Knowledge of packaging and processing technology
• Experience with training and the ability to teach concepts and practices to team members
• Able to think strategically and creatively
• Able to effectively analyze and interpret data
• Able to prioritize and meet deadlines, and to manage multiple production issues with sense of urgency
• Able to handle challenging or conflict situations with tact and professionalism
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to promote a team environment
• Be able to meet goals driven by KPI's and communicate the results of those KPI's to senior management
• Must be hands-on, high energy, flexible, and responsive to a dynamic work environment
• Ability to schedule and plan workloads, implement systems and projects that align with strategic objectives of the company.