Be yourself and bring your best ideas as a Processing Technician at Parallel and within its Florida Region (Surterra Wellness) Summary of the Position
Parallel is looking for a detail-oriented Processing Technician for our manufacturing team. Responsibilities of the Processing Technician will include receiving cannabis inventory, inventory tracking/logging, extracting and refining cannabis goods through operation of various machines, and data analysis of production processes.
The Processing Technician will fear no barrier in the pursuit of ensuring compliance with all applicable regulations, enforcing quality standards, troubleshoot issues, being a strong teammate, and effectively producing products for the manufacturing team.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Implement established best practices for manufacturing therapeutic cannabis-based products.
• Responsible for daily duties related to the manufacturing process of cannabis-based products.
• Enforces and complies with safety procedures and consults with department managers about safety issues that may arise.
• Responsible for cannabis extracting, cannabis refinement, and overall upkeep of the lab including daily cleaning.
• Work with both manufacturing and packaging equipment.
• Reviews all daily laboratory paperwork and corrects errors found in a timely manner.
• Responsible for physical cannabis products and data inventory.
• Keeping open and fluid communication with the management and maintenance teams in case there are machine issues.
• Responsible for trouble shooting equipment issues.
• Assist in recommendations for scalable procedures as company grows.
• Participate in the recruitment process for other team prospective team members.
• Trains and supervises all lab staff and evaluates staff performance, as directed by the Lab Supervisor.
• Evaluate laboratory documentation and suggests improvements as need.
• Work assisting the pre-rolls teams / packaging teams / extraction & distillations teams / refinement / etc. when you have down time.
Qualifications and Skills:
• Age 21 or over (Required)
• High School diploma or equivalent (Required)
• College Degree (Preferred)
• 5+ years’ work experience working in manufacturing, the cannabis industry or equivalent on the job training (Preferred)
• Experience in compounding or manufacturing (Preferred)
• Familiar with quality control, policy, procedure, and documentation
• Demonstrates the ability to work as part of a team with cohesive aspects
• Has reliable transportation and the ability to travel as needed between work locations
Physical Capabilities:
• Must be able to lift to 50 lbs.
• Hand and eye coordination with extreme attention to detail
• Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time
• Constantly operates a computer and manufacturing equipment
• Ability to perform repetitive tasks for long periods of time (lifting, pouring, typing)
• Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.