Production Manager

8 months ago


Richmond, Canada Donald's Fine Foods Full time

Donald’s Fine Foods is a family-owned business that has operated for over 30 years. We are a specialty meat processing and distribution company spanning six plants in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, serving both domestic and international markets.

**Our Core Values**
- **Integrity** -Do the right thing in all circumstances. Honesty and transparency in everything we do.
- **Ethical **-Always moving forward with a respectful, fair and equitable approach, promoting sustainable practices.
- **Creativity**-Pursue and achieve innovation with passion, purpose, ingenuity and curiosity.
- **Responsibility** - Be accountable for all our actions, decisions, and results.
- **Community** - Foster a sense of community both within the company and external stakeholders, through engagement, collaboration, and support.

The Production Manager role ensures the efficient and integrated operation of the production assets, people, and processes. The incumbent will manage the operations footprint to improve productivity and minimize downtime, towards improved revenue generation and reducing costs. This is a position that involves meeting goals, creating workflow policies and procedures, creating/managing schedules, and encouraging staff to comply with the procedures, systems, and policies to ensure peak efficiency. The Production Manager will work collaboratively with other departments towards achieving common goals focused on customer fulfillment. New product development and product improvement are focuses as well. As a member of the site leadership team, the production manager will ensure compliance with all applicable plant and corporate rules and regulations. To be successful, this position will require shop floor presence of at least 70%.

**Critical Objectives**
- Oversee Case Ready Operations/ Smokehouse Operations/ Production Planning/New Product Development.
- Productivity/ Yield improvements.
- Work collaboratively with unionized staff and managerial colleagues.
- Manage with Collective Bargaining Agreement.
- Ensure the Health and Safety of employees.
- Ensure the lowest cost while complying with correct specifications.
- Comply with all Food Safety requirements and standards.
- Lead and encourage staff to operate at high levels of effectiveness.
- Performance management of all production employees.

**Responsibilities**
- Operational Efficiency_
- Smokehouse asset and scheduling management.
- Production planning in conjunction with the sales and marketing teams.
- Develop and implement lead times from production to shipping.
- Plans short, medium, and long term manpower requirements.
- Liaison with human resources to ensure appropriate staffing levels in facility.
- Assist in preparing the weekly crewing schedules.
- Review and approve timecards and payroll reports.
- Liaise with the sales team and the production staff to ensure sales requirements are met.
- Perform critical product analysis as to meat, ingredient, and general product profile and equipment requirements for each product.
- Manage labour costs and yields to budget targets.
- Coordinate with purchasing department on all raw material requirements.
- Demonstrably committed to continuously improving manufacturing operations and processes, maximizing fiscal responsibility.
- Maintaining our customer expectations with fill rates over 99%.
- Minimize waste generation in all process flows.
- Understanding the inventory processes associated with all production materials in the finished product (meat, ingredients, dry goods).
- Quality And Specifications_
- Provide necessary feedback to the production team to ensure customer satisfaction by ensuring appropriate specifications.
- Respond to customer complaints and non-conformance issues by determining the root cause and recommended improvement process.
- Perform shelf-life testing and probable expiry date.
- Maintain operational compliance with all GMPs.
- Compliance_
- Enforce HACCP/CFIA and food safety regulations.
- Ensure all products and labels meet CFIA/Export market requirements.
- Ensure maintain or exceed BRC Certification M standards.
- Maintain and update product specifications in conjunction with the sales team.
- Understand and develop critical control points for product management.
- Safety_
- Provide a safe working environment for all employees.
- Ensure compliance to the Work Safe BC and Company operating procedures and policies.
- Emulate safe working practices and standards required by all employees.
- Implement safety programs that emphasize employee engagement and cooperation.
- Leadership_
- Maintain positive employee relations.
- Lead in a manner that exemplifies honesty, integrity quality and trust.
- Lead in a way that encourages direct reports to model leadership behaviours.
- Develop team and a strong succession talent pipeline.
- Facilitate and promote the achievement of Company objectives in terms of product quality, efficiency targets and customer service.
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