Manager, Biomass Technology

Location: Stayner

Description

Cronos is an innovative global cannabinoid company committed to building disruptive intellectual property by advancing cannabis research, technology, and product development. With a passion to responsibly elevate the consumer experience, Cronos is building an iconic brand portfolio. Cronos’ diverse international brand portfolio includes Spinach, PEACE NATURALS and Lord Jones. For more information about Cronos and its brands, please visit:
At Cronos Group, we hire talented people who thrive on solving difficult problems and give them the opportunity to hone new skills and approaches. If you want to play a part in shaping an innovative industry and help build a historically significant company, we want to meet you.

As Manager, Biomass Technology, you will lead the development of scalable, repeatable technologies for biomass processing, infused milled flower, and pre-roll applications. You will own key workstreams across flavour delivery systems, biomass refinement, and stability/shelf-life that help enable product programs such as GRINDZ (milled/infused) and pre-roll formats (including cigarette-style pre-rolls). Working across lab and production environments, you will design, prototype, and scale solutions that improve sensory experience, consistency, and manufacturability.

You will translate sensory feedback into measurable product performance targets (moisture, draw, burn, harshness proxies, appeal) and convert R&D learnings into specifications that production teams can execute consistently. You will provide technical leadership and direction to junior staff supporting these workstreams and collaborate closely with Product Development, Operations, Engineering, Quality (QA/QC), and Commercialization/Project Management to ensure effective tech transfer, robust process control, and production readiness.
This position is based out of Stayner, ON.

What you’ll be doing :

Biomass Processing Platforms & Product Program Support
• Own the technical delivery for biomass processing and smoking-technology initiatives supporting GRINDZ (milled/infused) and pre-roll product formats (including cigarette-style pre-rolls).
• Develop, optimize, and standardize flavour delivery systems and infusion processes (., spray/coating approaches) for milled and pre-roll biomass, including dosing strategy, homogeneity targets, process windows, cleaning/SOP requirements, and retention of key aroma/organoleptic attributes through shelf life (volatiles management, moisture control, packaging compatibility).
• Develop biomass optimization approaches (., particle size/shape control, conditioning/recon, expansion, sifting/filtration, and blend strategies) to improve yield, quality, and consistency while improving throughput and manufacturability (cycle time, changeover complexity, rework, and loss drivers) for pre-roll and milled inputs.
• Lead development of biomass refinement technologies that improve pre-roll performance and consumer experience, including filling power, draw resistance, burn rate/ash behavior, harshness perception, and flavour delivery, while evaluating reconstituted and/or enhanced filling power inputs where feasible.
• Lead stability and shelf-life workstreams for milled/infused products and pre-roll inputs, including packaging interactions, storage condition mapping, scalping/permeation risk, and fast-fail screening. Evaluate formulation and process levers that improve stability and sensory consistency, including humectants/stabilizers and controlled-release approaches (., encapsulation).
• Drive harshness reduction and related smoking technologies through formulation and process levers and evidence-based evaluation methods; translate findings into manufacturable specifications and controls.

Tech Transfer, Scale-up & Process Development
• Lead tech transfer from R&D to Operations for biomass processing, infusion, and pre-roll input technologies by building integrated transfer plans that cover prototype readiness, sensory/analytical evidence, capacity and risk assessment, equipment and tooling needs, training, and validation/verification inputs.
• Define and document CPPs, CQAs, sampling plans, and…