Operations Manager
Current
Hella Loud Dba Kaya Industries
Tumwater, Washington, United States
Management of packaging operations for a Tier III Cannabis Grow in WA State. Responsibilitiesinclude management of all orders, including Inbound, Processing, and Outbound; management of allonline systems including Mister Kraken (1.5 years), Cultivera (1.5 years), LeafLink (1 year), SendInBlue(1.5 years) and Bartender Pro (3 years); compliance officer in charge of plant tags, dry & packaged product, and general inventory; head designer for packaged product labels by strain; quality assurance officer for dry and packaged product; wet & dry product photographer and editor; marketing campaign designer; chief yield analyst for wet & dry product round over round; and employee management for a team of 2-5 processing workers. Other skills include intimate knowledge of wet & dry cannabis products including clone, grow, and harvest processes such as HST & LST for veg, mom, and bloom plants, strain identification for wet and dry product, and identification of product deficiencies such as mold, spider mites, aphids, powdery mildew, bud rot, and thrips; proficiency in dry/processed product weigh-out; proficiency with Epson ColorWorks C7500g custom label printer and TSC thermal barcode printer; proficiency with Google Drive; proficiency with both SluiceBox & KnockBox brand preroll machines; proficiency with industry grade cannabis product grinder; and proficiency with various other automatic and semi-automatic packaging machinery. Day to day duties include processing inbound/outbound orders including conversions, QA testing, label and barcode print & application, quality assurance; management of weigh-out & preroll processing teams, and grow-wide communication & coordination with other departments. Round-to-Round duties include generation and printing of plant tags, management of product stock and QA testing; label design using Bartender Pro; yield analysis for wet and dry product round over round; and product photography.