Director of Operations

Summary
The Director of Operations is responsible for overseeing cultivation, production, manufacturing, logistics, inventory management, and facilities maintenance to ensure seamless production and distribution. This role will focus on driving operational efficiency, maintaining compliance, and upholding quality standards while managing multi-site operations. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader with a strategic mindset, capable of optimizing workflows, scaling production, and fostering collaboration across teams in a highly regulated industry.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Operational Leadership: Direct and manage daily operations across multiple departments, ensuring seamless integration and alignment with the organization's strategic objectives.
• Financial Management: Oversee budgeting processes, monitor financial performance, and manage profit and loss statements to ensure fiscal responsibility and profitability.
• Process Optimization: Develop, implement, and refine operational processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality across all functions.
• Team Management: Lead, mentor, and develop management teams, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and execute operational strategies that support the organization's long-term goals.
• Compliance and Quality Assurance: Ensure all operations comply with industry regulations and company policies, maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety.
• Performance Monitoring: Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess operational effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with other departments, such as Sales and Product Development, to ensure operational support aligns with organizational needs and market demands.

Leadership & Team Development

• Provide mentorship, foster collaboration, and ensure the team is prepared to address evolving challenges in the cannabis industry.

Job Description

• Manage external business partners for specialized matters, optimizing costs and ensuring high-quality representation.
• Build a high-performing legal and compliance team prepared to address the complexities of the cannabis industry.

Team Collaboration

• Balances team and individual responsibilities, Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views
• Gives and welcomes feedback
• Contributes to building a positive team spirit
• Puts success of team above own interests
• Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives
• Supports everyone's efforts to succeed.
• Communicate effectively with team members to ensure clear understanding of tasks and expectations.
• Support a positive and inclusive work environment, fostering teamwork and mutual respect among colleagues.
• Provide training and guidance to new team members, sharing knowledge and best practices.

Work Environment and Physical Demands
The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills
Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively, both verbally and in writing. Must display professional telephone etiquette and be able to interact and communicate effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization. Ability to effectively present information in one on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability
Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry our instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hand to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and talk or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 or more pounds and regularly move up to 25 pounds. The noise level in the work environment is normal.

Work Environment
The noise level in the work environment is normal. The employee is frequently exposed to an environment of natural chemical fumes, herbal aromas, airborne particles, exposed to wet and/or humid conditions. Employee will have moderate exposure to conditions such as dust and particles that affect the respiratory system, eyes, or the skin, depending on department job assignments. Personal Protective Equipment is provided for employees to utilize and should be worn.
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