Compliance & Security Manager

Overview

At Texas Original Compassionate Cultivation, our mission is to create the highest quality medicine that changes people’s lives. We stand beside all who believe in safe, legal and effective access to this powerful medicine. As fellow Texans, we see this as our responsibility to take care of our neighbors. Our vision is to transform Texas through the power and the truth of medical cannabis.

We work alongside physicians and their patients with current qualifying conditions to supply prescription cannabis that can change lives.

• Maintain a thorough understanding of the Texas Compassionate Use Program (CUP), Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Administrative Rules, and other applicable state and federal regulations governing medical cannabis operations.
• Monitor regulatory changes and implement updates to company policies, SOPs, and operational practices.
• Ensure ongoing compliance across cultivation, manufacturing, laboratory, fulfillment, transportation, and retail operations.
• Maintain all required compliance documentation, records, licenses, registrations, permits, and inspection files.
• Coordinate regulatory reporting, submissions, renewals, and correspondence with the Texas Department of Public Safety and other regulatory agencies.
• Lead internal compliance audits and facility inspections to proactively identify regulatory gaps and operational risks.
• Develop, implement, and monitor corrective and preventive action (CAPA) plans resulting from audits, inspections, or investigations.
• Support and coordinate all regulatory inspections and serve as a primary point of contact for regulators during site visits, and maintain inspection readiness across all licensed locations.
• Own the company's DEA registration compliance: registration file maintenance, initial inventory upon registration grant, biennial inventories, and federal recordkeeping under 21 CFR Parts 1301/1304.
• Implement DEA-conform ant employee screening procedures (21 CFR 1301.90) and security controls.
• Report theft or significant loss to DEA (Form 106) and DPS within required timelines.
• Serve as point of contact for DEA inspections alongside DPS.
• Oversee the company's physical security program, including access control systems, employee credentialing, visitor management, restricted access areas, key control, and security badge administration.
• Oversee CCTV surveillance, alarm systems, intrusion detection, and security monitoring to ensure continuous compliance with regulatory requirements, coordinating testing, maintenance, and upgrades with Facilities, IT, and vendors.
• Develop and maintain security procedures that protect employees, patients, products, cash, intellectual property, and company assets; conduct periodic security risk assessments.
• Review surveillance footage and access logs as needed to investigate incidents or verify compliance, and ensure secure storage, handling, transportation, and destruction of cannabis products.
• Lead investigations involving diversion, theft, inventory discrepancies, unauthorized access, policy violations, workplace misconduct, security breaches, or other compliance concerns.
• Collect and preserve evidence, review surveillance footage, interview witnesses, prepare detailed investigative reports, and maintain confidential investigation files.
• Ensure all reportable incidents are documented and reported to regulatory agencies within required timelines; track investigation outcomes and implement corrective actions.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve compliance and security policies, SOPs, and work instructions in partnership with department leaders.
• Develop and facilitate employee training on regulatory compliance, facility security, diversion prevention, incident reporting, access control, and confidentiality; monitor completion and maintain training records.
• Identify regulatory, operational, and security risks and develop mitigation strategies; develop KPIs for compliance and security programs and recommend process improvements.

• Partner with Operations, Manufacturing, Cultivation, Retail, Facilities, Human Resources, IT, Finance, and Quality to ensure compliance…