Production Manager
Permanent On-site | Etobicoke, ON
Description
Responsibilities:
- Understand, apply and actively participate in always maintaining health and safety program practices.
- Demonstrate leadership by communicating effectively, providing clear expectations to all plant employees to ensure assigned responsibilities are carried out, to optimize plant performance and minimize downtime.
- Create production schedules and ensure that production processes stay within budget and timelines.
- Provide guidance to production staff and ensure proper scheduling of staff.
- Evaluate, recommend and implement production improvements and bring to attention any problems or issues impacting production.
- Monitor production to resolve issues and improve efficiency.
- Identify Continuous Improvement opportunities for year over year operations cost reductions, job efficiency and safety improvements.
- Coordinate plant resources and provide feedback for cross functional projects.
- Work closely with Maintenance to maximize the value and efficiency of ongoing operations.
- Work with Human Resources to ensure good employee relations are always maintained.
- Balance the floor with available operator skills, monitor throughput and efficiencies using production metrics and making necessary adjustment to correct deviations.
- Analyze complex issues, develop and implement clear action plans to resolve issues.
- Understand, apply and actively participate in maintaining product quality and food safety program practices including BRC, HACCP, QA / QC, GMP, Sanitation and good hygiene practices.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, industrial management, logistics, or a related field.
- 5 years’ experience supervising multiple shifts.
- Proven understanding of and experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to collaborate with stakeholders and team members.
- Ability to influence and collaborate with other departments.
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Ability to solve problems quickly and efficiently.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Detail oriented with strong attention to detail and organization.
- Strong computer skills including Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Access and Excel).
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