As a Packaging Lead at Baked Bros™, you are responsible for driving daily packaging efficiency, product quality, and team accountability. Reporting directly to the Production Manager, you supervise the packaging team to ensure all finished goods are packaged accurately, safely, compliantly, and on schedule. You serve as a hands-on leader, spending at least 80% of your time on the packaging floor, coaching your team, solving issues in real time, and communicating performance metrics. This role is both tactical and developmental, supported by a structured training plan that builds your skills in operations, leadership, compliance, and continuous improvement
This is a full-time position.
The position starts at $48K per year, Monday through Friday, 7:30 am - 5 pm.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Packaging Oversight
- Own day-to-day packaging operations for all finished goods (tins, bags, and other formats), ensuring label accuracy, correct counts/weights, and retail-readiness before release to inventory.
- Verify and document all compliance-critical data on packaging: Batch ID, MMJ weight, AI lot, manufacture date, expiration date, cannabinoid profile (including secondary cannabinoids such as CBC/CBG when applicable), and testing status prior to starting or releasing any batch.
- Ensure product is packaged according to current specifications, SKU standards, and state regulatory requirements, including child-resistance, tamper-evidence, and warning/labeling rules.
- Coordinate with the Production Lead to receive bulk gummies, confirm batch readiness, and prioritize packaging order to meet daily and weekly targets.
- Manage the daily setup, efficient operation, and troubleshooting of all automated packaging equipment.
- Execute line changeovers to ensure efficient operations are maintained and quality and compliance standards are met or exceeded.
- Quality and Compliance
- Enforce packaging quality checks at defined intervals: count/weight verification, seal integrity, label placement and content accuracy, lot/batch traceability, and presentation standards (Happy vs Stoney vs Sleepy variants).
- Maintain complete and accurate packaging records for compliance audits: packaging logs, batch tracking sheets, label versions, machine settings/calibration checks, and training records.
- Ensure product handling practices meet food-safe, GMP, and cannabis compliance requirements; uphold allergen and sanitation controls and proper PPE usage at all times.
- Quarantine and document any nonconforming materials; execute rework per SOP or escalate as required.
- Floor Leadership
- Lead by example on the packaging floor (present at least 80% of the day), setting the pace, reinforcing safety and GMPs, and removing blockers to keep lines running.
- Train and mentor packaging team members on SOPs, automated equipment operation, quality checks, changeovers, sanitation, and documentation.
- Communicate hourly and daily goals, track progress on a visible goal board or tracking sheet, and hold the team accountable for throughput, quality, and 5S standards.
- Proactively identify and resolve daily packaging issues independently, escalating only significant problems with proposed solutions to the Production Manager to streamline decision-making.
- Communication & Reporting
- Complete and submit daily End-of-Day (EOD) packaging reports, including metrics, training progress, and issue logs.
- Coordinate cross-functionally with the Inventory, Distribution and Production Leads and the Facilities & EHS Manager to ensure smooth workflows, efficient equipment functions, and label compliance.
- Proactively identify and resolve packaging issues independently; escalate significant challenges with proposed solutions.
- Align daily with the Production Manager to determine daily and hourly goals, and to verify Batch Tracking Sheets and corresponding rack numbers.
- Track and report key metrics, including throughput (units/hour), yield, waste, and downtime.
- Team Development & Safety
- Coach team members through the Packaging Lead Training Checklist to ensure readiness across label printing, equipment operation, setup, and verification steps.
- Reinforce a safety-first culture; conduct start-of-shift huddles covering safety, quality, and plan for the day. Immediately address hazards and near-misses.
- Participate in hiring, onboarding, and cross-training to sustain a high-performance, flexible team.
VITAL FUNCTIONS:
- Packaging Management
- Quality Assurance
- Operational Efficiency
THIS POSITION IS FOR YOU IF:
- You rarely call out, especially if it affects your team negatively.
- Change, progress, and big goals don't scare you.
- You like respectful debate and candid feedback.
- You don't have trouble speaking your mind and challenging others.
- You never avoid taking ownership and responsibility, preferring to blame circumstances or others when things don’t go as planned.
SUCCESS PROFILE:
- Directs work
- Action oriented
- Decision quality
- Situational adaptability
- Ensures accountability
- Drives results
- Develops talent
- Manages conflict
- Optimizes work processes
QUALIFICATIONS
- 3+ years in a food, beverage, pharmaceutical, cannabis, or related CPG packaging environment; 1+ year in a lead or supervisory capacity preferred.
- Hands-on experience with automated packaging equipment (e.g., weigh fillers, checkweighers, labelers/printers, cappers, flow-wrappers or tin/bag lines).
- Strong knowledge of GMPs, food safety, sanitation, and regulated packaging/labeling requirements; cannabis compliance experience a plus.
- Proven ability to train and lead teams, communicate goals, and drive accountability.
- Comfortable with data and metrics; able to maintain precise documentation and use metrics to improve performance.
- Able to lift up to 50 lbs, stand for extended periods, and work in a fast-paced, hands-on manufacturing environment.
- Proficiency with basic computer tools for label printing, data entry, and tracking.