Packaging Supervisor - Job ID 1766511

Packaging Supervisor

Your role in caring for our company:

• Oversee and supervise the day-to-day operations of the packaging department with emphasis on safety, efficiency, sanitation, and quality.
• Provide leadership and direction to team members to create a positive and productive work environment.
• Provide new team members with full training and perform additional training sessions with current employees as needed.
• Ensure team is adhering to company SOPs and company policy in daily operations.
• Clearly communicate expectations, goals, and schedules to the team.
• Ensure that quality standards are maintained and continually improved upon.
• Maintain a clean and safe working environment in the department with a high standard of organization and sanitation.
• Ensure machine upkeep and preventative maintenance measures are taken.
• Ensure effective and timely communication of department information to managers, including team goals, progress, performance, objectives, obstacles, and other relevant information.
• Submit daily production reports to management and maintain detailed records/daily operation logs.
• Plan and delegate the sequence of necessary actions for the completion of a job.
• Maintain equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer's instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; call for repairs.
• Manage packaging inventory of packaging materials and notifying manager when additional supplies are needed in a timely fashion.
• Monitor machine while working to adjust the feed and identify issues to increase productivity.
• Monitor Packaging Associates to ensure they are keeping up with QC/ labeling. Assist them as needed.
• All other duties as necessary.

Qualifications we ask you to have:

• For legal reasons, all employees need to be at least 21 years of age
• You will be asked to pass a Federal and State criminal history background check
• We ask that you have at least a high school diploma/GED
• Five years of packaging and/or production experience
• Three years of supervisor or management experience

Additional skills which will help you excel in your role:

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to coach and mentor others
• Strong Team building and training skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Ability to provide technical leadership
• Problem-solving skills
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to understand, follow, and enforce established safety procedures.
• Ability and comfort with using power-operated machine tools.
• Comfortable using technology/computers to operate machine.
• Ability and willingness to pivot to other tasks quickly.
• Ability to learn new techniques and be open to direction from managers.
• Comfortable working around high-speed machinery.
• Comfortable with heights (up to 12 feet).

Work-Schedule/Location:

• On-site 5 days a week

Please make sure you are willing and able to perform the following:

• This position requires an inordinate amount of sitting, walking, kneeling, bending, scooping, twisting and reaching in full range of motion to complete physical tasks
• Must be capable of sitting for extended periods of time, lift objects on a regular basis, and perform daily repetitive tasks.
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 50 lbs. unassisted and up to 80lbs assisted.
• As this is a cannabis growing facility, there will be strong odors, bright lights, and various noises throughout the workday.
• Employees are asked to wear scrubs, masks, gloves, and hairnets while working with the plants. DCM will provide scrubs, gloves, and hair nets to all employees.

Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action

To most growers, the flower they harvest is the end of the road. For us, it’s just the beginning.

Our mission is to grow more than the world’s best Cannabis. We’re growing a better world. One that’s more caring, compassionate, understanding, and informed.

Behind every Sour Diesel, Gelato Cake and Lemon Royale Flower is something bigger: our mission to create meaningful, positive change in the world.

To fight for equality within the industry and society. To give those in need access to the medicine they require. To change perceptions about this miraculous plant and the power it contains. To soothe and heal, without hurting Mother Earth.

Every day we learn a bit more about the unlimited potential cannabis holds, and there’s nothing we like more than sharing it with you. Because to us, cannabis is much more than a plant; it’s our chance to change the world, one person, one patient, one policy at a time.