Quality Assurance Specialist

Overview

The purpose of this position is to ensure the successful quality and compliance management operations at all GTI sites. This position is to ensure through process performance audits that all raw ingredients, raw materials, packaging, and finished products comply with all applicable regulations and meet or exceed the customer's expectations and to act when predefined standards are not met. This position will also help manage product quality tracking systems, FDA standards, internal and external audits, etc.

The goal for this role is to ensure compliance with all Green Thumb corporate operating procedures, as well as applicable federal, state, county, and municipal laws, regulations, ordinances, and regulations.

• Supports the Quality Department and ensure all employees understand and follow all standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Define, implement, and improve the Quality Management System with guidance from the site Quality Manager including development of process and product testing to ensure quality standards are met and oversee determination of finished product disposition.
• Implement, maintain, and audit quality control practices and operations to ensure the safety, quality, and compliance of cannabis.
• Assist in site HACCP Plan and quality system reviews and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Assist the Quality Manager in the implementation of HACCP, allergen, sanitization, and other programs of the Quality Management System.
• Manage and perform document controller responsibilities through the Electronic Quality Management System.
• Oversee completeness and good documentation practices of in-process batch records.
• Partner with management to lead quality initiatives that develop and maintain a high performing, scalable, and compliant quality system.
• Perform or oversee routine audits of compliance processes to assure accuracy and thoroughness of completion.
• Participate in and facilitate state regulatory compliance inspections, investigate, and resolve compliance concerns, issues, or violations.
• Conducts weekly compliance risk assessments and identifies potential areas of vulnerability and risk, develops/implements corrective action plans for resolution of issues, and provides general guidance on how to avoid recurrence of same or similar issues in the future.
• Annual inventory planning and summary generation for regulatory (state regulatory body) submission.
• Label/packaging review and approval adhering to regulatory requirements.
• Works with Quality and Compliance Manager to identify all legal and regulatory requirements and legislative updates applicable to all the site's business lines and keeps up to date in changes of the regulatory requirements.
• Strong knowledge of compliance terminology, laws, rules, and regulations of industry and laws as issued by the state regulatory body.
• Provides guidance on various departments regarding compliance issues and implementation of new compliance requirements with respect to regulatory and contractual requirements.
• Conduct research on compliance topics, including but not limited to privacy, federal regulations, state laws and related publications for known risk areas.
• Ensures that compliance issues/concerns within the organization are being appropriately evaluated, investigated, and resolved.
• Work with department leaders to troubleshoot any deficiencies that surface, to ensure issues get rectified quickly with high standard.
• Analyze facility trends to assess potential areas of continued non-compliance.
• Routinely reviews monthly corporate QA/QC documentation and assures that all areas of concern are addressed appropriately according to corporate policy and regulatory standards.
• Assist production personnel in the investigation of root causes and corrective action of internal rejects, corrective/preventive action, preventive control points, and customer complaints.
• Continually study the existing quality system and make recommendations for improvements.
• Perform assigned Quality Inspections.
• Perform improvement projects as identified.
• Collect quality data and report metrics to management.
• Monitors compliance to established Good Manufacturing Practice…