Green Thumb is growing fast and needs to develop and commercialize new cannabis vape and concentrates, ensuring safe, stable, and compliant products. This role will focus on innovation and exploring new product opportunities to meet evolving market demands.
Requirements
- Experience with cannabis extraction and post processing – primarily looking for experience with hydrocarbon extraction, ice water extraction, ethanol extraction, and related post-processing.
- Preference with experience in formulating and producing vapes and concentrates – from biomass to finished goods.
- Experienced in cannabis extract production and knowledgeable of relevant cannabis market trends.
- Comfortable and experienced in innovating and exploring new spaces and bringing ideas to life via tangible prototypes in the cannabis industry.
- Ability to plan, design experiments, and solve problems.
- Knowledge of lab best practices and GMP.
- Familiarity with OSHA guidelines for dealing with hazardous chemicals and extreme environments.
Responsibilities
- Conduct product development work from bench top prototypes through scaled up products and processes for commercialization of new vape, concentrated, or infused product,
- Conduct development work to optimize existing processes and systems in support of GTI’s objectives.
- Produces and maintains documentation for new or modified processes and products.
- Executes bench top formulations of new cannabis and hemp formulations as needed to produce samples for sensory or functionality testing.
- Supports pilot-scale validations to define manufacturing-scale processes.
- Identify potential innovation spaces for GTI Business Teams to consider and execute prototype development from benchtop through scale-up.
- Lead the continuous improvement process for biomass preparation, extraction, post-processing, and formulation.
Other
- Assists with implementation of new products/processes as needed – including travel and in person training sessions.
- Effectively communicate key results from bench and pilot scale trials to leadership and cross functional teams.
- Collaborate frequently with a cross-functional team, including but not limited to, project managers, product developers, brand managers, and manufacturing personnel from concept through commercialization of products, ensuring excellent communication.
- Travel approximately 25% of the time.
- Must be detail oriented with superior organizational skills.
