Coordinator, Extraction
Hours: Monday – Friday, 40 hours per week 

Job location: Jarvis (Simcoe) Ontario – Thrive Facility
Employment type: Full-time employment Onsite

Salary : $27.50 to start
 

A little about us

Hi, we’re Aurora Cannabis, and we’re so excited to meet you!

We’re a global cannabis company with operations across Europe and North and South America. We’re driven by our passion to help people improve their lives and 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, Greybeard 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

Reporting to the Manager, Extraction, the Coordinator, Extraction will be responsible for the coordination and execution of extraction activities and post processing of product for the Aurora Thrive extraction team. 
 

Key Responsibilities:

•    Responsible for the daily schedule for extraction, distillation and formulation staff as well as non-extractions staff present in the extraction lab.
•    Responsible for the daily paperwork required by HC and Aurora Thrive Operations – including entries into AirMed and Production Daily reporting
•    Coordinate with Planning, Quality, and other departments to ensure schedule adherence.
•    Ensure that proper sanitation is maintained for all production equipment and tools including workspaces, processing equipment, containers, and appliances.
•    Maintains inventory of supplies, materials, equipment, including material safety data sheets for all chemicals and products
•    Ability to communicate effectively and work well with others.
•    Ability to master and control all equipment in a laboratory-type environment including sophisticated high-pressure oil extraction equipment, centrifuges, homogenizers, concentrators, filtration, dilution and formulation equipment
•    Lead the Extraction Team towards meeting department goals around efficiencies, yields and cost.
•    Support and nurture a team environment. Be a steward of company culture and Aurora’s Values in Play
•    Where applicable, must adhere to Aurora’s SOPs and comply with the Cannabis Act.
•    In addition, must adhere to ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001 (Environment Management System) and OHSAS 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Series).
•    Where applicable, promote and maintain GMP requirements.
•    Other duties as required

Requirement

•    Must be able to wear Proper PPE (jump suits, safety glasses, hair nets, etc.)
•    Must have ability to work within a team environment.
•    Close attention to detail
•    Must have the ability to multi-task, coupled with a sound mechanical aptitude.
•    Excellent organizational skills, communication and problem-solving skills.
•    Intermediate to excellent computer skills in MS Office
•    Excellent time management, leadership, decision making, and interpersonal skills.
•    High level of accuracy 
•    Ability to meet deadlines. 
•    Ability and desire to work with people at all levels of the organization. 
•    Ability and desire to lead. 
•    Excellent interpersonal and communication skills 

•    Previous experience in Lead role in a processing environment in a relevant industry, including food, health care, pharmaceuticals, etc.
•    2+ years’ experience in a GMP environment is preferred.

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! You will be empowered to achieve work-life balance with flexible hours, remote work options, vacation time, meeting-free-Friday-afternoons and more!
   
• Total rewards: we will motivate you to go above and beyond with a competitive salary, 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 celebrate our people by providing corporate perks including employee discounts, perkopolis memberships, company SWAG, paid volunteer time, modern technology and snacks and beverages at all our office locations.

• Team: we are a diverse and global team of cannabis enthusiasts, energetic innovators, fitness gurus, caring parents, foodies and more, with a collective passion to nurture an inclusive environment that helps you grow and provide people better days with medical cannabis.
   

Next steps
Apply today by submitting your resume through our website. You can expect your application to be reviewed by a human recruiter (not a robot) shortly after you apply, and our team will contact you via email if we see a fit.

Think you’re the ideal candidate but you don’t meet all the requirements? Apply anyways! We would love to review your application to see if you’re the right fit or find you an alternative opportunity. Not the role for you? Share this posting with a friend or colleague that you think may be interested while subscribing to our Talent Community to learn more about upcoming opportunities through our Aurora Careers Page (hot tip: if you are already an Aurora employee, take advantage of the employee referral program by referring this position to a friend! If they are successful, you will receive a bonus!)
 

Diversity and inclusion
At Aurora, we are proud to foster and celebrate a diverse community of professionals! We take pride in nurturing an inclusive culture that empowers our people to be their authentic selves, celebrate their differences and love where they work.
Our diverse community combined with our inclusive culture, is what sets us apart in the industry and equips our A-Team with superpowers – and this is why, we encourage all candidates to apply for job opportunities regardless of race, national origin, colour, religion, age, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital and family status, disability, or any other identifying characteristic. If you require accommodation (including, but not limited to, an accessible interview site or alternate format of job posting) during the recruitment and selection process, please do not hesitate to let our team know!
 

If applicable, Aurora Human Resources will contact you via your email address provided. We do not contact candidates over Facebook or other Social Media apps. You will never be requested to provide confidential information such as banking information or your Social Insurance Number in the interview process.