Processing Manager

At Rubicon Organics, our vision is to be the most trusted house of premium cannabis brands - creating elevated experiences for people everywhere. Our mission is to build brands people believe in by delivering elevated experiences in all we do. Through uncompromising quality, purposeful innovation, and trusted partnerships, we create products and relationships that enrich lives and help shape the future of cannabis.

The Processing Manager is a builder: a hands‑on, systems‑minded leader who develops people, strengthens processing capability, and improves the way Rubicon thinks about product quality, customer expectations, drying, curing, trimming, sanitation, bulk pack, and milling coordination. This role must stay close to the floor while also advancing the science behind post-harvest processing, using customer feedback, complaint trends, climate data, trials, and external learning to challenge assumptions and improve outcomes.

The Manager owns team development, operational flow, SOP discipline, budget awareness, cross‑functional alignment, customer complaint follow‑up, production order variance approval, and continuous improvement. Success requires strong communication, curiosity, coaching discipline, practical processing experience, and the ability to build durable systems that improve quality, output, worker experience, and brand performance. This role is based at our Pacifica facility in Delta, BC, and reports to the Senior Cultivation Manager.

• Develop Supervisors and Leads through regular 1:1s, coaching, clear expectations, development plans, stretch assignments, and succession planning.
• Build a culture of accountability, curiosity, learning, collaboration, and ownership across the processing team.

• Apply Lean Six Sigma thinking, standard work, visual management, data review, and root‑cause discipline to improve flow, reduce waste, and strengthen consistency.
• Build practical systems, trackers, dashboards, escalation flows, and routines that make the right behavior easy and repeatable.
• Identify process trials, automation opportunities, bottlenecks, and method changes that improve quality, output, labour efficiency, and worker experience.

• Stay current on drying and curing science, terpene and cannabinoid preservation, moisture management, climate strategy, and emerging post-harvest technology.
• Advance Rubicon’s processing approach by translating external learning, climate data, trials, customer feedback, and quality trends into SOPs, training, and better decision‑making.
• Partner with Cultivation, Quality, R&D, Maintenance, and Planning to improve drying and curing outcomes and challenge outdated ways of working.

• Reduce defects, retrims, quality holds, and customer complaints through prevention, training, environmental control, customer understanding, and RCA follow‑through.
• Improve output and worker experience through balanced labor deployment, ergonomic thinking, fair scheduling, clear expectations, recognition, and removal of non‑value‑added work.

• Oversee processing, trimming, dry rooms, curing, sanitation, bulk pack, milling coordination, and related operational performance.
• Maintain regular floor presence to assess quality, dry room and curing status, tote checks, RMA activity, people performance, and readiness against plan.

• Own weekly budget and performance review, including identifying overspending, labor opportunities, automation opportunities, and areas for improvement.
• Manage Clockify entries and ensure labor tracking is complete and accurate.

• Communicate clearly in writing and verbally through structured meetings, weekly updates, documented decisions, risk escalation, and follow‑up discipline.
• Build a collaborative, respectful workspace and coach Supervisors and Leads on communication standards, meeting discipline, and escalation etiquette.

• Lead cross-functional alignment with…