Director, Supplement & Beverage Production

Position: Director, Supplement & Beverage Production

Location: Portland, OR

Job : 141

# of Openings: 1

Etz Hayim owns and operates the brands Cycling Frog and Lazarus Naturals, as well as a sprawling operation that spans from farming over 300 acres of hemp, extraction, chemical processing, packaging, supply chain and warehousing to support both brands and private label customers.

Lazarus Naturals was founded in 2016 to make quality hemp-based CBD accessible to everybody. It's why we own our manufacturing process from start to finish - beginning at our hemp farms in Central Oregon to our extraction, formulation, and packaging - all to deliver safe, effective CBD at an affordable price. We provide a 60% Assistance Program to veterans, individuals with disabilities, or those experiencing income challenges, because we believe everybody should be able to experience the benefits of CBD and natural medicine regardless of their financial situation.

Cycling Frog is normalizing the consumption of casual use THC products. We are on a mission to make THC convenient, affordable, and fun by making a sessionable THC beverage the same price as a beer or soda. We want to change the way THC is consumed and viewed by our society by focusing on lower potency, ready to drink beverages that can easily fit into anyone’s lifestyle.

This role will be based in Portland, Oregon.

Reports to CEO.

Planning and reporting

• Partner with the rest of the Operational leadership team to develop the strategic operations plan to support the growth of the business, drive efficiency and prepare the organization for the future.
• Develop, present, and lead Capex and improvement plans for production to support our growth strategy and forecasts. Manage the planning, ROI analysis, risk analysis and execution for production projects.
• Manage the annual production and staffing plan.
• Develop and execute upon product cost targets and long term goals to drive current and future profitability. Determine the key the cost drivers and where our business can create cost savings via operational changes and capital investment.
• Partner with the Finance & BI teams to develop better visibility and reporting for targets, goals, and KPIs allowing for floor level teams to understand their performance in real time. Educate and mentor the team to understand the importance of their goals and deliverables.
• Manage the implementation of workstation time-card tracking for employees from our payroll systems to live track actual production costing by work order, build out automated reporting, and build out tracking to ensure employees are properly logging their hours/work time.

• Clearly define the goals and lines of responsibilities for the production teams, and build ownership and accountability on a manager and floor level.
• Manage the production schedule and proactively mitigate inventory out of stocks. Proactively work cross functionally to alleviate any operational challenges that create out of stock risks.
• Manage the production & formulation teams. Responsible for ensuring that all quality standards are maintained and that all other processes are adhered to on the production floor.
• Lead the production and formulation teams to work efficiently by building capability and better practices from the floor. Take the time to understand how each of our production and formulation processes work and prioritize where we can make the improvements that drive product quality, out of stock risks and efficiency.
• Lead the implementation of lean principles across all aspects of production. Lead the teams to determine root causes and create lasting solutions to ongoing issues.
• Drive operational excellence and efficiency. Develop plans and create Executive and floor level buy in for personnel, facility and Capex changes to improve our operations.
• Lead the determination, implementation and onboarding the proper systems for the Portland production teams. Lead the implementation of operations modules for our ERP system and how to build out the proper ecosystem of tools, training, third-party systems and reporting to support it.
• Develop and implement…