Director, Production Optimization

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $160k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Green Thumb Industries (GTI)

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Healthcare • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Green Thumb Industries (GTI) is a company dedicated to enhancing well-being through the power of cannabis. Founded in 2014, GTI invests in people, brands, and retail experiences to champion safe and quality cannabis products aimed at improving health, happiness, and comfort. With a focus on social impact, the company strives to create positive change in communities through its Growing for Good program, which emphasizes restorative justice, inclusion, environmental stewardship, and community engagement. GTI is committed to shaping a more inclusive cannabis culture and has become known for its reputable brands such as RYTHM and incredibles.

📋 Description

• Lead the packaging function across Green Thumb’s manufacturing network • Own finished-good packaging execution across manufacturing sites, ensuring specification compliance, label accuracy, and finished-goods standards • Establish and enforce packaging standard work, line-clearance procedures, and changeover routines • Partner with Packaging Engineering, Procurement, Innovation, new-product, Cultivation, Technical Engineering, Compliance, Quality, Data, Planning, and project teams • Own flower packaging, fill-weight accuracy, net-weight compliance, traceability, sanitation, material readiness, and flower-line improvement • Lead network-wide LEAN deployment, including 5S, standard work, visual management, Gemba practices, value-stream mapping, and kaizen events • Maintain a continuous-improvement pipeline with quantified savings and before/after metrics • Coach site teams on LEAN behaviors and own tiered metrics and daily-management systems • Lead production-scheduling expertise, align packaging capacity and staffing with master production schedules and S&OP demand signals • Support MRP/ROP readiness and 30/60/90-day schedule-lock discipline • Sequence packaging runs to minimize changeovers and maximize flow; resolve scheduling conflicts • Define reporting and dashboard requirements for materials, capacity, and demand • Ensure adherence to BPRs, SOPs, GMP, CAPA processes, and packaging quality standards • Use THCVault quality data to identify defects and drive corrective and preventive action • Own packaging label-printing operations, including printer uptime, print quality, and label accuracy • Track cross-functional projects using Smartsheet and communicate milestones, risks, dependencies, and changes through Zipline, Teams, and Email • Lead and develop packaging leadership and process-improvement resources • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Supply Chain, or a related field — or equivalent hands-on manufacturing experience • 4+ years of progressive manufacturing operations experience, with demonstrated ownership of packaging and/or high-volume production • Proven track record leading LEAN / continuous-improvement transformations with quantified, sustained results (OEE, changeover, scrap, throughput) • Working knowledge of production scheduling, MRP/MPS, and S&OP in a regulated or high-mix manufacturing environment • Familiarity with Batch Production Records, SOPs, GMP, and CAPA processes • Fluency with ERP/MRP (D365) and project-tracking tool • 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 • Preferred: LEAN / Six Sigma certification (Green Belt or higher) • Preferred: Multi-state or multi-site manufacturing leadership experience • Preferred: Cannabis industry experience, including METRC, BarTender, and QualityOne / Veeva Vault • Preferred: Experience standing up daily management systems and tiered metrics • Preferred: Packaging automation or equipment-qualification experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay range based on experience, qualifications, and/or location • Potential eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance • Remote work arrangement

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