IL - Production Manager

We’re Grön (pronounced like grew-n, Swedish for green). We craft the most delicious cannabis edibles on the planet. As a leading North American brand, we’re dedicated to high-quality products that cater to our diverse customers. Driven by innovation, sustainability, and community, we create our edibles with care. Founded in her basement, chocolatier and mother Christine Apple started Grön in 2015, and has since grown the company into a team of over 200+ passionate individuals in 8 different markets (and counting). We hold ourselves to the highest standards of quality and professionalism as we serve millions of customers worldwide. Every team member is expected to contribute to our mission with dedication and teamwork, crafting our gummies and chocolates with love for the community. 

At Grön, we operate first by our Mission & Values: we win with dignity and grace, we only deliver excellence, we embrace transformation. We believe all Grön employees should embrace and operate with these values in mind. If you feel like you embody our values, keep reading to find out more about how you could make an impact as a part of our team. 

About the Role:  

The Production Manager provides oversight for all daily activities of the production facility from the creation of products to the fulfillment of orders going out the door. The Production Manager plans and directs work and is responsible for the effective and successful management of labor, materials, productivity, quality control, while maintaining compliance with state and local regulations. This position maximizes resources to achieve goals. They are expected to follow standard operating procedures and safe habits across all teams. This position requires hands-on management. You will be working on the floor with your employees filling in where and when its needed. 

In this role you will:  

• Oversees and assists in all daily activities of production including planning, and assignment. 
• Coordinate scheduling and real-time utilization of resources, keeping all departments in communication, while minimizing interference. 
• Communicates with central operations management to ensure smooth coordination between all departments, production, fulfillment, sales, marketing and accounting. 
• Ensures departments maintain production schedule adherence and regulation compliance with the state and safety standards.  
• Enacts contingency plans as needed; escalates and directs activities during systems problems; identifies potential problems, troubleshoots and participates in analysis of past issues providing input for future process improvements. 
• Fosters a positive environment and builds consensus among staff and departments to maximize efficiency and morale.  
• Leads and assists with general inventory management keeping all ingredients, packaging and sale ready inventory at expected levels based on sales projections and production goals.  
• Selects and hires facility staff for production, packaging and fulfillment, plus any supervisory roles needed. 
• Trains new and existing employees on current and updated procedures. 
• Addresses employee performance issues, generates improvement plans and performance evaluations.  
• Keeps immediate superior promptly and fully informed of all problems or unusual matters of significance and takes prompt corrective action where necessary or suggests alternative courses of action. 
• Performs all necessary functions to effectively and efficiently manage the personnel and processes assigned.  
• Recommends salary adjustments, transfers, promotions and dismissals. 
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required or requested. 
• Supports the company in production planning and making sure the business is adequately resourced and that production schedules match product sales rates. 
• Responsible for quality assurance of all products and communicates issues and brings solutions.