Senior Quality Manager

Curaleaf Holdings, Inc. (CSE: CURA) (OTCQX: CURLF) ("Curaleaf") is a leading international provider of consumer products in cannabis with a mission to enhance lives by cultivating, sharing and celebrating the power of the plant. As a high-growth cannabis company known for quality, expertise and reliability, the Company and its brands, including Curaleaf, Select, and Grassroots provide industry-leading service, product selection and accessibility across the medical and adult-use markets. In the United States, Curaleaf currently operates in 19 states with 150 dispensaries and employs nearly 5,500 team members. Curaleaf International is the largest vertically integrated cannabis company in Europe with a unique supply and distribution network throughout the European market, bringing together pioneering science and research with cutting-edge cultivation, extraction and production.   Home | Curaleaf | Cannabis with Confidence

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Our Mission: To enhance lives by cultivating, sharing, and celebrating the power of the plant. 

Our Vision: To be the world's leading cannabis company by consistently delivering superior products and services and driving the global acceptance of cannabis. 

Our Values:

• Lead and Inspire.  
• Commit to Win.  
• ONE Curaleaf.  
• Driven to Deliver Excellence.  

Quality Assurance Senior Manager

The Quality Assurance Senior Manager is responsible for supporting, implementing, and sustating the national standards and initiatives for the Quality Management Program. This role will support ongoing operations, working closely with Quality leadership to continuously improve operations. A Senior Manager role may perform responsibilities at a national level to support the Quality Program and/or be responsible for multiple sites or state facilities. This role will develop key relationships with other Curaleaf teams including, but not limited to: Compliance, Operations, Product Development, and Commercialization.     

Responsibilities: 

• Implement, monitor, and maintain all Quality programs and processes for assigned areas/sites including the electronic Quality Management System (eQMS).
• Assist in development and implementation of Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and supporting documents. Continuously monitor operational adherence to written procedures.
• Identify potential, serious, or chronic problems affecting product quality or compliance.
• Participate in updating Quality procedures and validation processes. Review and assist with policy changes and updates applicable to assigned areas/sites.
• Establish and enforce quality assurance standards and provide technical recommendations in production and packaging.
• Initiate quality investigations and CAPAs for complaints and notice of events and work with compliance and operational teams and document outcomes.
• Monitor sustainment of corrective actions resulting from quality event investigations and internal and external audits.
• Assist, encourage and participate in continuous quality improvement process through reinforcement of product quality, new processing and manufacturing technologies, creation of specifications, and performance and oversight of various auditing and investigation actions.
• When applicable, perform audits against cGMP standards and ensure integrity and sustainment of the quality systems.
• Collaborate with compliance and operational leadership to ensure the company is maintaining all standards set forth by State and Federal regulations and guidelines
• Monitor preventative maintenance and calibrations for assigned area/site instrumentation.
• Where applicable, enforce and monitor the process for incoming products and consumables, perform risk evaluations, and as needed conduct supplier audits.
• Audit processing operations. Identify risks and mitigate potential impact to employee safety, product quality, and cGMP compliance.
• Enforce and monitor the hold and release program for assigned areas/sites.
• Where applicable, work closely with operations to develop, revise, and maintain SOPs and supporting documents at the site level to allow for reasonable specialization and adaptation based on state regulations. Integrate these into the electronic Quality Management System (eQMS).
• Asisst Operational leadership with training and qualification procedures for team members.
• Responsible for communicating all document changes to eQMS administrator to update the centralized document library and ensure document retention in compliance with requirements of 21 CFR part 11.
• Where applicable, perform periodic review of procedures, forms, logs and batch records.
• Direct and implement changes into procedures identified by Change Control and CAPA processes.
• Track new document creation, administrate document’s controlled copies, administrate and archive inactive documents, and ensure user access to controlled documents in collaboration with eQMS administrator.
• Where applicable, manage the eQMS modules at a state level.
• Train and develop staff using SOPs, MBRs, and supporting documents.
• Where applicable, provide guidance on capex planning and equipment and facility design to site leadership to meet cGMP guidelines.
• Where applicable, enforce safety and security procedures in compliance with OSHA and local EHS regulations including monitoring proper use of equipment and materials.
• Provide routine status updates and relevant information and priorities to the Quality team.
• Promote a culture of quality and change management by empowering team members and colleagues.
• Additional duties and responsibilities will be assigned as necessary.

 Qualifications:

• Undergraduate Degree preferred in life sciences, or similar discipline.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• Advanced MS Office and Excel skills required and QMS experience preferred.    
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge of cGMP preferred.
• Results-driven and task-oriented.
• Flexible and creative, while maintaining a strong work ethic and the ability to meet critical deadlines.
• Ability to prioritize under pressure and identify and help resolve roadblocks facing the Operational Teams and processing and manufacturing projects in particular.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to interact professionally at all levels of the organization, with vendors and outside stakeholders.

Other Details:

• This is a full-time position; when assigned to specific processing and cultivation locations onsite presence and interaction with Field Operations is required.   

Curaleaf is an equal opportunity employer. Curaleaf recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as requires by applicable law.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Individuals adversely impacted by the war on drugs are encouraged to apply.