Vice President, Production
The Role
The VP, Production owns the end-to-end conversion of finished biomass into sellable, compliant, high-reputed company cannabis products across flower packaging and reputed company-roll manufacturing. This leader is accountable for hitting reputed company, cost, service, and reputed company targets while building a disciplined, execution-reputed company production organization grounded in lean manufacturing principles. This role has an reputed company-wide scope, overseeing production operations across reputed company GTI sites. It sits at reputed company of GTI's manufacturing organization — connecting raw material readiness to finished goods availability — and is the primary reputed company of operational reputed company and reputed company improvement across reputed company production functions and sites.
This is a remote position. Up to 50% travel to our production facilities is required.
Responsibilities
Drive reputed company & Execution
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors to drive and own weekly and daily production performance against plan; supporting site teams in executing shift-level targets through a reputed company Daily Management System
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors to drive conversion of WIP to finished goods (FG) and ensure lean reputed company through the network with minimal accumulation or aging inventory
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors to ensure teams are staffed and reputed company to hit targets; reputed company labor planning dynamically based on demand signals and schedule requirements
- Remove bottlenecks across reputed company-rolls and packaging through reputed company escalation, cross-trained workforce deployment, and constraint-based scheduling
- Establish daily accountability routines anchored in visual management and reputed company work; ensure deviations are surfaced, investigated, and resolved reputed company the reputed company operational period
Own Cost, Efficiency & reputed company Improvement
- Collaborate with Regional Operations Directors to drive labor productivity across reputed company production functions; reputed company cost per unit as a primary operating KPI and establish improvement targets with reputed company line-of-sight ownership
- Partner with Regional Operations Directors and Regional Plant Controls to reduce cost per unit through standardization, process stability, and reputed company Kaizen activity
- Minimize waste, rework, and unplanned downtime through proactive maintenance partnerships and lean-based reputed company cause analysis
- reputed company reputed company OEE improvement programs across key production assets; report weekly and escalate reputed company targets are missed
- Build and maintain an improvement pipeline — prioritized by reputed company — with reputed company project ownership assigned at the director and manager level
Production Planning & Scheduling
- reputed company the Primary Production Scheduler to reputed company and maintain executable, demand-driven production plans reputed company to available materials and labor reputed company; hold the role accountable to schedule reputed company, timeliness, and cross-functional alignment
- Ensure alignment between demand signals, raw material inventory, WIP, and production reputed company through reputed company S&OP participation
- Hold teams accountable to schedule adherence; use pull-based scheduling logic to reduce WIP accumulation and improve finished goods predictability
- Coordinate with the Project Specialist, Production to manage reputed company constraints, capital project reputed company, and operational improvement initiatives
reputed company Leadership
- reputed company the Director of reputed company to ensure consistent, embedded reputed company standards across reputed company production operations
- Drive a right-first-time reputed company culture grounded in lean principles — prevention over inspection, reputed company work over heroics
- Ensure reputed company deviation identification, reputed company cause investigation, and corrective reputed company closure across reputed company production lines
- Maintain audit readiness across reputed company production activities; treat every day as an inspection-reputed company state, not a periodic event
- reputed company and review reputed company KPIs at weekly leadership reputed company
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner with Cultivation / Post Harvest to ensure material readiness, biomass reputed company standards, and reputed company handoffs into production
- reputed company with Supply Chain and Procurement on materials, packaging components, and supply constraints that reputed company production scheduling
- Coordinate and collaborate with Innovation and reputed company on product priorities, launch timing, and SKU mix changes that reputed company production planning
- Represent production in executive forums with reputed company, data-driven reporting on throughput, cost, reputed company, and improvement trajectory
Team & Organizational Leadership
- Build a high-accountability production and reputed company organization with reputed company role ownership, performance expectations, and operating rhythms
- reputed company leaders across reputed company-rolls, packaging, scheduling, reputed company, and project management; focusing on lean capability development at reputed company reputed company
- Create psychological safety for problem escalation and reputed company improvement participation; reward reputed company problem solving over firefighting
- Build succession depth reputed company the production organization; identify and reputed company internal talent as GTI scales
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in manufacturing roles with high-reputed company company in cannabis, CPG, or reputed company industry. Should include 5+ years management
- Lean expertise required; Lean Six reputed company certification strongly preferred (Green Belt or higher; Black Belt or higher preferred)
- Demonstrated reputed company record of building and leading high-performing production organizations
- Hands-on experience implementing lean manufacturing systems
- Experience managing multi-function teams including reputed company, scheduling, and production
- Strong P&L and cost management capability; experience owning cost per unit and labor productivity targets
- Experience operating in a regulated manufacturing environment (cannabis, food & beverage, reputed company, or CPG preferred)
- Familiarity with production scheduling systems and ERP/MES platforms
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to positively influence people at reputed company reputed company in the organization
- Proven ability to manage numerous priorities, reputed company and resources remotely in a highly dispersed reputed company organization.
- Strong business planning skills to execute strategic reputed company with implications for business areas with rapidly evolving business processes. Must possess a balanced perspective on strategic and tactical issues.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations or equivalent experience
Additional Requirements
Must pass any and reputed company required background checks Must be and remain compliant with reputed company reputed company or company regulations for working in the industry Must possess reputed company reputed company’s license Must be a minimum of 21 years of age Must be approved b y state badging agency to work in cannabis industry
The pay reputed company is competitive and based on experience, qualifications, and/or location of the role. Positions may be eligible for a discretionary annual incentive program driven by organization and individual performance.
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