Director, Quality

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own GTI’s QA/QC policies, standard operating procedures, and quality management system across the multi-state network
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve all requisite quality programs
• Define critical quality attributes, critical process controls, and in-process testing to proactively prevent quality defects
• Administer the electronic quality management system
• Direct and guide company-wide sanitation and quality-control practices
• Establish product and process specifications and finished-goods release criteria
• Own product scorecard support across all production departments
• Oversee in-process and finished-goods inspection, hold-and-release, and disposition of nonconforming material
• Partner with analytical labs on potency, terpene, residual-solvent, pesticide, microbial, and heavy-metal testing
• Lead root-cause analysis and develop, implement, and verify effective corrective and preventive actions
• Support and monitor ongoing cannabis product complaint investigations through resolution
• Ensure compliance with all GTI standard operating procedures and applicable municipal, state, and federal cannabis regulations

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Engineering, Microbiology, Supply Chain Management, or a related field
• 10+ years of quality (QA/QC) operations experience in a highly regulated production organization
• 7+ years of progressive leadership responsibility with a proven track record of building and developing QA/QC processes, systems, and teams
• Demonstrated command of GMP, HACCP, SPC, sanitation, and allergen-management programs, plus root-cause analysis and CAPA methodology
• Comfort interacting with regulators and inspectors and interpreting evolving state regulations in a compliant, defensible way
• Must pass any and all required background checks
• Must be and remain compliant with all legal or company regulations for working in the industry
• Must possess valid driver’s license
• Must be a minimum of 21 years of age
• Must be approved by state badging agency to work in cannabis industry

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive pay range
• Discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance

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