Quality Control Associate

**Quality Control Associate**
**Job location: Bradford, ON**
**Employment type: Full Time Permanent**

**Hours: 40 Hours per week**

**Salary: $60,000 - 65,000 CAD**

**A little about us**

Hi, we’re Aurora Cannabis, and we’re so excited to meet you
We’re a global cannabis company driven by our passion to help people improve their lives. We have a diverse team who bring their best every day so Aurora can be the cannabis provider of choice for patients and consumers. We love our work, and we especially love our high quality, innovative brands that make up the Aurora family - from Aurora, Aurora Drift, San Rafael ’71 and Whistler.
Our people combined with our collective passion for the industry is what makes Aurora a special place to work and defines what we call our “A-Team”. We are a high-performing team of cannabis experts, innovators, and champions, that work, learn and win together. We think **BIG**, act **BOLD** and execute with **PURPOSE** in all that we do, and will stop at nothing to cultivate the ultimate cannabis experience for our community.

**Job summary**

**Responsibilities**:
Promote positive safety culture through participation, and adherence to, HSE programs
- Promote positive working relationships with all departments
- Act as an ambassador for regulatory and process compliance
- Provide guidance to procurement on suitability of materials for purchase
- Ability to organize and facilitate multi-disciplinary research projects, and organize and implement scientific experiments and/or procedures
- Develop direct-input and finished product specifications ensuring EU/USP compliance
- Manage the sampling, submission, and lab tracking of all Cannabis samples for release
- Manage the site/lab relationships, and tracking conformance of lab result TAT
- Complete investigation of any OOS, prepare report and direct disposition
- Support investigation and risk assessments related to product NCR as required
- Write, revise, and continuously improve in-scope SOPs ensuring compliance
- Responsible for the maintenance (site-level), conformance and management of:

- Controlled, Bulk and Final Material Sampling & Approved Materials List
- Specifications for all product categories (spec tables) & associated CoA/CoMs
- Specification Creation/ERP Inspection Plan
- Environmental Monitoring; Air, Surface, Water
- Participate in Annual Product Quality Review
- Participate in Internal and External Audits, as required
- Other duties as assigned

**Education and/or Work Experience Requirements**:
**Experience**:

- A Canadian (or assessed as equivalent) B.Sc. degree or equivalent in an applicable discipline of science (chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, chemical engineering, medicine, horticulture, medical laboratory science or related).
- Three (3) years’ experience in Quality Control/Assurance.
- Functional understanding of HPLC, GC-MS, ICP-MS, spectroscopy, and plant sciences an asset

**Skills & Knowledge**:

- Knowledge of Quality Assurances programs such as GMP, HACCP and ISO.
- Strong team facilitation/leadership skills with a commitment to self, and team, development.
- Strong interpersonal, and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
- Proficient with standard office technology such as Microsoft Office and ERP systems

**Why you’ll love working at Aurora**
Our people are at the heart of everything we do here at Aurora, and we take pride in fostering an inclusive space that inspires our team to love where they work From rewarding career opportunities to flexible work environments to team activities, we go above and beyond to prioritize your success and here’s how we do it
- **Flexibility**:you will enjoy a flexible work environment that is the perfect blend of work and fun With flexible working hours to compressed work weeks to paid sick and vacation time, you will be empowered to achieve work-life balance.
- **Total rewards**:we will motivate you to go above and beyond with a competitive salary or hourly wage (with shift premiums), stock options, an RRSP program, annual bonuses, and a health and personal care spending account for you to use for gym memberships, ski passes or staycations.
- **Benefits**:we will foster your health and wellness (and your dependents) with our employee benefits package including, employer-paid health and dentalcare premiums, life insurance and LTD policies and a** medical cannabis coverage program, designed exclusively for our A-Team**, that will provide you with **$1,500** of coverage each year (because we truly believe cannabis is the best medicine).
- **Life-long learning**:we’re lifelong learners here at Aurora and will invest in your professional development throughout all aspects of your career You will have access to a tuition assistance program, virtual learning activities and annual performance reviews, to ensure you are provided with the toolkit and support you need to succeed.
- **Perks**:we love to c