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, 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, Quality, Compliance, Data, and planning teams • Drive flower packaging, including fill-weight accuracy, net-weight compliance, traceability, sanitation, material readiness, yield, and UPLH improvement • Own network-wide LEAN deployment, including 5S, standard work, visual management, Gemba, 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 across the network and align packaging capacity and staffing with production schedules and S&OP demand signals • Support MRP/ROP readiness and schedule-lock discipline across 30/60/90-day planning horizons • Surface and resolve scheduling conflicts across production, packaging, and fulfillment • Partner with the Data team to build reports and dashboards for materials, capacity, and demand visibility • Ensure adherence to Batch Production Records, SOPs, and Good Manufacturing Practices • Use THCVault quality data to identify recurring defects and drive corrective and preventive action • Own packaging label-printing uptime, print quality, label accuracy, and compliance • Collaborate with Compliance on METRC accuracy, DOH, and state-specific labeling rules • Track cross-functional projects, maintain initiative visibility, and drive execution through sustained results • Lead and develop the packaging leadership team 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 a 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive pay based on experience, qualifications, and/or location • Positions may be eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance • Remote position

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