Packaging Associate

**Company Overview**

VIVO Cannabis is a TSX listed corporation with operations in three countries. Its Canadian operations, Canna Farms Limited, ABcann Medicinals Inc. and Harvest Medicine Inc. are recognized for trusted, premium cannabis products and services. VIVO holds production and sales licences from Health Canada and operates world-class indoor and seasonal air house cultivation facilities. VIVO has a collection of premium brands, each targeting different customer segments, including Canna Farms, Beacon Medical, Fireside, Fireside-X, Lumina and Canadian Bud Collection. Harvest Medicine, VIVO's patient-centric, scalable network of medical cannabis clinics, has serviced over 150,000 patient visits. VIVO is pursuing several partnership and product development opportunities and focuses its international efforts on Germany and Australia.

**The Opportunity**

Do you enjoy working in a collaborative team environment? Are you eager to learn and be part of a dynamic business in a fast-paced industry?

If so keep reading to learn about an exciting new opportunity to join VIVO Cannabis on our journey to create, grow and deliver excellence outcomes in the cannabis space via high quality medical products and a customer centric approach.

**Position Overview**

VIVO’s licensed producer, **Canna Farms Inc, located in Hope BC **is seeking a **Packaging Associate** to facilitate and support the growth of its high-quality cannabis products.

The successful Packaging Associate will be responsible for contributing to the efficient production of top-quality product, in strict compliance with all Health Canada Regulations.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Performs weighing, assembly, packaging, and labeling of cannabis products
- Ability to understand and follow SOP’s, safe work procedures, and health Canada guidelines
- Packaging product inventory in an efficient and effective manner
- Maintain a clean, organized, safe work area with a focus on contributing to the overall sanitation of the packaging and processing area
- Perform basic visual quality inspections on products
- Maintain high-quality standards during shifts including constant quality checks of all products being manufactured and packaged
- Ability to work well with others to meet production demands
- Effectively communicate with leads, supervisors, and managers
- Report any product or production equipment that appears damaged, spoiled, broken, unusable, or unsatisfactory in any way to supervisors
- Communicate discrepancies in quantities or quality of product
- Perform other related duties and tasks when requested by supervisors

**Qualifications and Skills/**_**Required Skills/Experience/Knowledge**_
- Must have meticulous attention to detail.
- Minimum of grade 12 diploma.
- Must be able to pass a background check.
- Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
- Must be able to carry out often repetitive tasks at a continuously high level of quality.
- Willingness and flexibility to complete any task that may be require
- Customer-centric, commercial driven mindset.
- Positive can-do attitude; entrepreneurial spirit with a bias for action.
- Champion of high-performance culture through engagement with company’s performance management process and provision of meaningful feedback.
- Ability to thrive & succeed in a fast-paced growth environment.
- High degree of collaboration working cross functionally and geographically.
- Excellent learning agility with a hunger to become knowledgeable in the space.
- Previous Health Canada Security Clearance and work experience with a Canadian Licensed Producer (LP) is considered as an asset.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance, as per Health Canada's Cannabis Act.
- Ability to follow direction and coaching from direct supervisors.
- Maintain concentration while completing repetitive tasks.
- Meet company standards within the task assigned.
- Self-motivated with the ability to work effectively as a team.
- Perform miscellaneous tasks as assigned.
- Must be clean, attentive to detail, organized, and know how to maintain an organized workspace
- Demonstrate a passion for the industry and working knowledge of cannabis products.
- Demonstrates ability to work independently with minimum supervision; to prioritize and resolve problems; to complete tasks while working under pressure with multiple interruptions.
- Ability to communicate courteously and effectively.

**VIVO Competencies & Values**
- **Unity** - We know great outcomes in business aren’t accomplished by one person, they are accomplished by a team, success for us hinges on collaboration
- **Accountability** - We take ownership and have a bias for action that allows us to produce excellent customer-centric results
- **Integrity** - We know it’s this simple, wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it, right is right even if no one is doing it
- **Innovation** - We strive to identify and embrace opportunities to differentiate and eleva