Team Development Coordinator

Blue Sky Hemp Ventures Ltd. currently has opening for one **Team Development Coordinator** at our hemp and cannabis extracts facility in Saskatoon. The Team Development Coordinator is a new supervisory role focused on continuous improvement of our extract operations team's capabilities, workflow, and processes.

This is a **full time**, **permanent**, **salaried **position expected to work 40 hours a week. We currently have three 8-hour shifts running 24/5, and the Team Development Coordinator will be expected to spend time with each shift throughout the month. This will require a rotating schedule, which will be discussed during the interview.

Blue Sky Hemp Ventures Ltd. (BSHV) is a private Canadian company founded in 2017 with the vision of becoming world leaders in whole hemp plant utilization (food, industrial products, and nutraceuticals). BSHV's business plan is based on a ‘triple bottom line’ philosophy of driving value for people and the planet while delivering profits to our farming partners and shareholders. BSHV’s operations are located in Saskatoon. Blue Sky Hemp Ventures is one of the few profitable companies operating in the Hemp/Cannabis industry - a true testament to our team and culture.

**Key responsibilities**

• Perform or coordinate staff process training.
• Work cooperatively with operators and leads to determine workflow/process improvements, and disseminate best practices across all teams, helping all teams improve productivity and KPIs.
• Assist management and QA in deploying process and equipment changes, including installation, controlled document changes, and implementing team training.
• Assist operators, lead operators, and management with supervisory communication. Support the operations team in communicating team needs to management.
• Work on an offset rotating schedule to facilitate communication between teams, and with management.
• Assist management and QA in safety and quality investigations, taking witness statements and determining causes, and working with management to develop and implement corrective actions.
• Review and complete batch records, and have operators make identified corrections in a timely manner.

As a Team Development Coordinator you are required to work closely with lead operators and extraction operators, hands-on with the process. **Process experience or knowledge should include**:

• All aspects of cannabis and hemp extraction, distillation, and isolation.
• Process optimization and underlying physical science to common hemp and cannabis extraction and purification processes.
• Underlying guiding quality principles for safe cannabis or food manufacturing.
• Operation of all extracts processes, including hands-on operation steps, standard operating procedures, workflow optimization, and equipment functioning.
• Good production practices (GPP) standards as they are applied under Blue Sky’s quality program.
• Management expectations and key performance indicators on safety, quality, and throughput.
• Safety and quality reporting procedures.
• Company policies.

**Required skills, training, and/or experience**

• Excellent and professional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Hands-on experience with cannabis processing. Experience with processes used at Blue Sky is an asset.
• Experience with safety documentation and systems
• 2+ years of team leadership experience is an asset
• Skill and experience in reporting and interpretation of data (KPIs, production efficiencies)
• Ability to read, understand, and interpret SOP’s related to food or pharmaceutical industry
• Technical writing skills to translate practices into SOPs and controlled forms
• Strong organizational abilities and detail orientated abilities, including thorough documentation skills.
• Comfort working with spreadsheets or ERP system data entry
• Reasonable physical fitness such that you can stand and/or walk for significant periods of a shift, and lift or manipulate processing screens, bulk bags of product, and/or attend to the physical maintenance of certain equipment

Pay: $55,000.00-$65,000.00 per year

**Benefits**

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• Paid time off

Schedule

• 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate

• Saskatoon, SK S7R 1C3: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s)

• Please describe your familiarity with hemp or cannabis processing.
• Please describe your manufacturing supervisory experience.

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-10-23