Mason C. Black
Saxton,PA
Summary
An ambitious professional seeking to provide great leadership by offering excellence in customer/state level relations, employee management, production streamlining, daily operations, productivity, inventory management, and product development.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Facility Manager
Cannabist Company
11.2023 - Current
- Oversee all day to day operations for the facility.
- Ensuring compliance with all State and local laws, rules and regulations governing the local medical marijuana program, and other regulations such as OSHA, HIPAA, NFPA and others.
- General facility repairs and maintenance and overseeing minor CapEx projects.
- Managing security of the facility in partnership with corporate VP, Security. This includes implementing and maintaining security systems for tracking, record keeping, record retention and surveillance related to all product at every stage of, storage, delivery, transporting, and distribution.
- Overseeing staff training and education to ensure that SOPs, Health and Safety, and good agricultural practices are followed.
- Working with Cultivation and Production teams to establish protocols to ensure the facility can maintain efficient production throughput and establish and implement procedures focused on increasing yields while reducing costs and increasing quality within the approved SOP framework.
- Maintaining a highly focused, diligent, lean operational culture dedicated to company established mission objectives.
Laboratory Manager
Green Leaf Medical LLC/ Cannabist Company
01.2021 - 11.2023
- Manage day to day operations.
- Currently oversee 8 employees. At it’s peak I oversaw 27 employees.
- Ensure compliance with local and state regulations.
- Direct the lab team on production schedule goals.
- Manage and continually update/improve SOPs as needed.
- Help employees develop skill sets, inclusive workplace culture and good productive habits.
- Service and maintain all equipment in the lab.
- Manage and approve payroll for lab employees.
- Develop and launch new cannabis products in PA.
- Expertise in various extraction methods.
- Provide spreadsheets of production data to sales and accounting.
- Review and identify areas in production that need improved for efficiency.
- Help lead community outreach programs.
- Coordinating interviewing, hiring/firing process as well as onboarding new employees.
Extraction Supervisor
Green Leaf Medical LLC
05.2020 - 01.2021
- Following Policies & Procedures for the daily operations and fully comply with state regulations.
- Mastering various extraction methods for cannabis extraction, infusion, filtration, including butane, ethanol, and solventless extraction.
- Machine maintenance and calibration.
- Lead a small team of extractors on daily assignments.
- Making sure that all concentrates are packaged, counted, sorted, and labeled correctly.
- Developed and executed strategic, operational plans to meet sales goals.
- Managing day to day issues as they arise, requesting assistance as needed.
- Responsible for coordinating Waste Disposal of extraction waste and product return waste.
- Continually work with the state regulated testing to ensure the best product reaches patients.
- Assured compliance with all quality, regulatory, and security.
- Review sales reports, patient feedback, and social media to try and meet patient wants/needs in the market.
- Working closely with extraction team to ensure all aspects of the testing and formulating/infusion process are correctly done.
- Facilitate machine training, safety training and general meetings.
Solventless Extraction/packaging
Green Leaf Medical LLC
09.2019 - 05.2020
- Oversee and manage solventless extracts inventory.
- Checking testing results before extracting to ensure the best flower is being used.
- Ensure proper packing of cannabis products.
- Accurately weighing out products.
- Tracking all products through the packing process.
- Checking scales weekly for accuracy.
- Collect samples for lab testing and stability testing.
- Making sure solventless production is on schedule to meet weekly goals.
Cultivation Technician
Green Leaf Medical LLC
07.2019 - 09.2019
- Clean work areas and maintain tools in accordance with sanitation standards of the company.
- Trimming plants in the vegetative stage and creating clones from mother plants.
- Manage assigned room and ensure all plants look healthy.
- Trimming and de-fanning of plants while in the grow rooms.
- Fill growing tanks with water and correct nutrients.
- Participate in room sanitization.
- Examine all plants for pests and diseases.
- Help plan and execute plant moves from veg to the flower rooms.
Education
Associate - business management
WYO Tech
Blairsville, PAGraduated academic - undefined
Tussey Mountain High School
Saxton, PASkills
- Strong leadership skills
- Superior operational and consumer market knowledge
- Effectively build cohesive teams and partnerships
- Strong work ethic
- Conflict management
- Inventory management
- Employee management
- Culture enhancement
- Great attention to detail
- 6 years of experience in the cannabis industry
- Budgeting and financial management
- Asset management
Timeline
Facility Manager
Cannabist Company
11.2023 - Current
Laboratory Manager
Green Leaf Medical LLC/ Cannabist Company
01.2021 - 11.2023
Extraction Supervisor
Green Leaf Medical LLC
05.2020 - 01.2021
Solventless Extraction/packaging
Green Leaf Medical LLC
09.2019 - 05.2020
Cultivation Technician
Green Leaf Medical LLC
07.2019 - 09.2019
Graduated academic - undefined
Tussey Mountain High School
Associate - business management
WYO Tech