Production Supervisor

Our client is a company with a solid reputation in the premium quality natural / organic food processing sector and the leader in its field in North America. They are currently looking for a Production Supervisor for their plant in the Bas-St-Laurent region.

Nature of position

Under the supervision of the Plant Manager, your job will be to plan, organize, control, and direct all production-related activities in order to meet the plant's general operating goals.

• Carry out any other task related to your duties.
• Apply the collective agreement in a continual, efficient, and fair way; maintain good working relations;
• Produce various production reports;
• Ensure that production qualitative and quantitative production and maintenance goals are reached within established budgets;
• Create and follow up on a performance plan; establish priorities with the production team in order to reach production goals;
• Ensure that the company's various regulations are respected, as well as workplace health and safety (SST) regulations;
• Set out and update performance indicators and share the results with your team and with management;
• Work alongside the planner to make sure daily production planning is carried out;
• Oversee continual improvement to production processes and methods;
• Ensure that measures are taken to improve productivity and production efficiency; ensure that required practices and standards are applied;
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the production staff (325 employees, with the help of 6 foremen);

Required qualification

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (engineering, business administration, etc.) or any other relevant education and training (college diploma, certificate, etc.);
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant management experience in a manufacturing / food processing environment;
• Fluent in French (spoken and written);
• Fluency in English (spoken and written) is considered an asset;
• Proficient with the MS Office suite;
• Management experience in a unionized environment, as well as familiarity with continual improvement principles such as 5S, PVA, Kaizen, etc. are considered significant assets.

Education / training

Bachelor (others), Bachelor in agro-environmental engineering , Bachelor in agronomy, Bachelor in business administration , Bachelor in food engineering , Bachelor in food science and technology , Bachelor in industrial engineering , Bachelor in mechanical engineering , Bachelor in operations engineering and logistics, D.C.S. - Food processing technology, D.C.S. - Industrial engineering technology, D.C.S. - Manufacturing production technic, D.V.S. - Business administration, DCS general

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