Continuous Improvement/Quality Assurance Manager (Central Point)

Client(s): Sun God Medicinals LLC and Sun God Herbals LLC

Position: Continuous Improvement/Quality Assurance Manager

Hours: Full-time salary

The Continuous Improvement/Quality Assurance (CIQA) Manager is responsible for driving operational efficiencies and developing a program to safeguard product safety and quality while meeting brand and regulatory standards, and has oversight responsibility for that program for continuous quality improvement that includes quality control and quality assurance. This person is responsible, along with the Production Manager, for ensuring that initiatives are developed to reduce downtime and optimize labor resources while overall production and distribution of products meets or exceeds all quality standards. This person also has responsibility for communicating quality results and the transfer of quality and QA knowledge to the workforce. The Manager guides daily activities to ensure product quality by following FDA & cGMP’s at all times and developing process improvement plans to improve and maintain operations.

The CIQA Manager will develop programs and SOPs to ensure compliance; chair the companies Quality Unit Team as well as the Operational Improvement Team; maintain and processes all documents; validate quality processes, and continuously improve the document control process.

The Sun God Medicinals’ product lines consist of herbal and hemp products to be sold to general stores like grocery, wellness, and gift shops as well as cannabis products to be sold to OLCC licensed retailers. Sun God Medicinals licenses it’s brand to both Sun God Medicinals LLC for OLCC manufacturing and Sun God Herbals LLC for herbal and hemp manufacturing. Sun God strives to ensure that each package arrives to a customer correctly, with care and on time.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Program Development

Lead the Company’s effort to ensure compliance with all regulatory directives and any necessary corrective actions.

Become the subject matter expert of Quality System, current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), and HARPC/HACCP.

Develops, writes, reviews SOPs for activities for a Quality Unit.

Manage the Quality Unit team members to enforce Food Safety, Regulatory, and cGMP’s throughout the Manufacturing facilities.

Help develop, expand, and manage the Sanitation program(s) which may include a Master Sanitation Schedule, Internal Audits, Food Safety Audits, SSOP's, CIP and COP programs, Hygienic Design, Hygienic Zoning and Cleaning Chemicals.

Help develop, expand and manage the company’s organic pest control programs and working cooperatively with vendors to improve pest control programs and activities.

Develop and manage a Pathogen Monitoring Program (PMP) which includes monitoring facility cleanliness and sanitation and taking corrective action on deficiencies in accordance with the PMP.

Develop and manage a Food Safety Team which includes maintenance of all aspects of a HARPC/HACCP program.

Interfaces with suppliers to assure that all quality standards are met.

Develops and coordinates Quality procedures for new and existing products.

Develops quality assurance plans by conducting hazard analyses; identifying critical control points and preventive measures; establishing critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions, and verification procedures; monitoring inventories.

Develop and validate quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes; measuring production; documenting evidence; determining operational and performance qualification; writing and updating quality assurance procedures.

Coordinate in sampling of raw materials.

Responsible to releasing and/or rejecting incoming raw materials and finish products.

Planning, scheduling all calibration activity for measuring, monitoring and test equipment.

Responsible for all required logs for the facility that include: Temperature logs, dropper verifications, scale verifications, cleaning logs, and any other assigned Quality task that affect the overall quality of the products produced.

Expand program for managing customer complaints and customer returns.

Liaison

Reviews all change controls and deviations initiated internally or by any customers.

Participate in facility audits (Customer, Regulatory, and Certification) and Corrective Action responses from the Audits.

Records and Metrics

Maintains and retrieves original files of controlled documents and quality records.

Prepares quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing and summarizing information and trends including failed processes, stability studies, recalls, corrective actions, and re-validations.

Maintains and processes all documents according to the change control program.

Develops and communicates quality metric and inspection results to appropriate managers and others in leadership positions including, but not limited to daily, weekly or monthly KPI reporting to management.

Program Maintenance and Misc

Oversees the implementation and documentation and assures that all relevant procedures remain current.

Maintains and improves product quality by completing product, company, system, compliance, and internal audits; investigating customer complaints; collaborating with other members of management to develop new manufacturing and training methods.

Reviews all product labels used in the facility and ensures adherence to regulatory and Company standards.

Measures, assesses and follows-up on team performance improvement plans through timely performance evaluations and reviews along with department leaders. Identifies and assures that all necessary training is provided and documented. (Test Procedures, SOPs, Safety and cGMPs).

Complies with company policies and procedures and maintains regular work attendance.

Responsible for upholding all ALL Manufacturing Plant(s) Safety Rules FDA & GMP’s at all times.

Personal responsibility for following safety rules, SOPs and cGMPs guidelines.

Performs other duties as assigned.

REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in consumer packaged goods. Retail sales and merchandising preferred

A knowledge of applicable FDA herbal supplement and OLCC cannabis rules and regulations;

Over 21 with Oregon Marijuana Handler’s Card

Completion of state cannabis tracking (METRC) processing center training

Excellent time management and multitasking skills in a challenging environment

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Demonstrated experience working in inventory management team environment

Strong organizational and follow-up skills

Above average desktop computer skills with experience in MS office, quickbooks and Google suite.