Supervisor, Manufacturing

Facility Location
- Richmond

Work Location
- Posting Locations - Richmond

Department - Richmond Production Team 4

Job Function - Manufacturing/Production Operations

Employee Type - Regular Employee FT Salaried

Shift/Hours
- **About Us**:
**Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling**

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Life, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

**About This Opportunity**:
As a result of moving to a 24/7 operations and with significant future investment in our production operations, we are hiring a Manufacturing/ Production Supervisor. The Manufacturing Supervisor position is located at the Bottling Production Facility in Richmond, BC. Reporting to the Production Manager, the Manufacturing Supervisor is responsible for manufacturing product using efficient and safe manufacturing processes through the supervision of manufacturing team members. Must adhere to the production schedule and ensure that safety, quality & food standards are met. Must be able to work dayshift, evening shift or night shift as required.

**Responsibilities**:

- Schedule, train, evaluate, develop & monitor team members; Lead the team of 30+ employees
- Responsible for safety and quality on the floor
- Manage line efficiencies, downtime, key performance indicators, syrup yields and day to day running of the plant.
- Manage within monthly labour and OPEX budget.
- Monitor the production process, make periodic checks and adjust equipment or work practices according to standard operating procedures
- Monitor KPI; analyze trend and data for improvement; troubleshoot issues
- Work on continuous improvement projects
- Work on Autonomous Maintenance (TPM)
- Use of SAP for production confirmations in a timely manner
- Verify the readiness of the production line at start-up and supervise change overs.
- Manage overall package and product quality to ensure all standards and specifications.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor's degree preferred
- 1-3 years production/manufacturing experience
- 2+ years supervising production staff preferred
- Requires experience managing personnel/budgets
- Familiarity with manufacturing systems Proven leadership/supervisory experience is required
- Ability to work dayshift, evening shift or night shift
- Ability to be on a call basis as required for graveyards and weekends
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a team environment with a positive attitude
- Builds and maintains strong business relationships

**Important**:
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification, and driver’s abstract review. In addition, all new employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and provide Coke Canada with proof of vaccination. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regard to any of the foregoing once you are contacted for further consideration.