Extraction Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Oversees, trains, and assists Lab Technicians in operating, maintaining, cleaning, safety standards, cGMP, policies, and procedures for all aspects of extraction, refinement, and distillation of cannabinoids.
• Continuously improving extraction, refinement, and distillation processes, throughput, and systems efficiencies.
• Provide leadership to ensure that safety and company policies are adhered to consistently and effectively.
• Provides leadership for problem resolution to facilitate fast improvements and improved working relationships.
• Effectively communicate results to both technical and non-technical personnel.
• Interact with team members to address technical or regulatory questions and provide solutions to problems.
• Initiate, coordinate, and enforce operational policies and procedures, and cGMP requirements.
• Apply scientific techniques, procedures, or methodologies to complete tasks.
• Maintains compliance with laws, regulations, cGMP, OSHA safety standards, and our policies and procedures.
• Maintains accountability and inventory of all raw materials, finished products, by-products, and waste of the extraction process.
• Leads and/or provides guidance in the creation of and revision to Standard Operating Procedures and Batch Manufacturing Records.
• Participate in product development and be responsible for supporting future product launches and extraction methods.
• Documenting all processes and assuring up-to-date records of our BMRs, cGMP, BioTrack seed-to-sale system, and other required documentation.
• Execute day-to-day operations at the Production Facility as they pertain to workflow, extraction, analysis, production quotas and deadlines.
• Cleaning and maintenance of extraction equipment and laboratory facility following current good manufacturing practices and standard operating procedures; complying with legal regulations; monitoring the work environment.
• Maintaining inventory records of supplies, materials, and equipment, and preparing requisitions as needed.
• Storing supplies and equipment, disposal of waste according to guidelines, and keeping laboratory, storerooms and working areas immaculate.
• Maintaining strict inventory records of all plant materials, chemicals and equipment used in the laboratory and documents production by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.
• Implement, maintain, and record data in our seed-to-sale tracking software (BioTrackTHC).
• Perform other related work as required.

The above-cited duties and responsibilities describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to the job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all the duties and responsibilities that an incumbent may be expected to or asked to perform.

Physical Demands: Required for job

• Stand for extended periods
• Walk
• Use hands and fingers, handle, and feel
• Talk, hear, taste or smell
• Lift and /or move up to 25 pounds
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus
• Occasionally required to sit; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

Hazards: Required for the job

• Exposed to laboratory conditions
• Housekeeping and/or cleaning agents
• Exposed to fumes or airborne particles
• Proximity to moving mechanical parts
• Toxic or caustic chemicals
• High noise level
• Varying temperatures
• Proper and safe handling and disposal of harmful chemicals, substances, and other hazardous wastes.