Supervisor, Production

Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 40 hours per week
- Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate
- Experience: 3 years to less than 5 years
- **Work site environment**:

- Odours
- Clean
- ** Work setting**:

- Bakery
- Food processing industry
- Food and beverage plant
- Food processing plant
- ** Tasks**:

- Minimize hazards at all stages of the food production process
- Train staff/workers in job duties, safety procedures and company policies
- Recommend personnel actions such as hiring and promotions
- Prepare production and other reports
- Recommend measures to improve productivity and product quality
- Supervise, co-ordinate and schedule (and possibly review) activities of workers
- Establish methods to meet work schedules and co-ordinate work activities with other work units
- Requisition or order materials, equipment and supplies
- Write production logs
- Troubleshoot and make minor adjustments to equipment
- Train staff in job duties, sanitation and safety procedures
- Set up and adjust processing and packaging machines
- Schedule and co-ordinate work on sites
- Recommend personnel actions
- Order supplies and maintain inventory
- Perform minor repairs to equipment
- Monitor equipment to detect wear and damage
- Monitor inventory levels of issued materials and stocks
- Monitor production progress
- Monitor quality and production levels
- Maintain internal record-keeping system
- Maintain work records and logs
- Evaluate efficiency of production sites to determine adequacy of personnel, equipment and technologies used
- Estimate costs and materials
- Disseminate health and safety information
- Conduct performance reviews
- Check products and packaging for basic quality defects
- Check products for quality and other specifications
- Check products for quality control
- Analyze costs of production
- Food safety/handling skills
- Maintain work areas
- Conduct quality control
- MS Office
- Clean work area
- Offer mentoring
- Service equipment
- Oversee production
- Develop quality management and quality assurance standards
- Conduct quality audits
- **Supervision**:

- 3-4 people
- Labourers in food, beverage and tobacco processing
- Process control and machine operators, food and beverage processing
- ** Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Hazard Analysis and Criticial Control Points (HACCP) Certification
- ** Type of product**:

- Food and food products
- ** Computer and technology knowledge**:

- MS Access
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
- MS Windows
- MS Word
- Inventory control software
- SAP BI BusinessObjects
- ** Food specialties**:

- Bakery goods and desserts
- ** Industrial processes and products experience**:

- Quality assurance and control
- ** Area of work experience**:

- Quality assurance or control
- ** Manufacturing sector experience**:

- Food
- ** Area of specialization**:

- Process improvement
- ** Regulations knowledge**:

- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- ** Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Ability to work independently
- Fast-paced environment
- Attention to detail
- Work under pressure
- ** Personal suitability**:

- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Judgement
- Organized
- Team player
- Reliability
- ** Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- Vision care benefits
- ** Financial benefits**:

- Bonus
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- ** Other benefits**:

- Wellness program
- ** Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
- Does not require Canadian work experience
- ** Support for youths**:

- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
- ** Support for mature workers**:

- Provides staff with awareness training to create a welcoming work environment for mature workers
- **Supports for visible minorities**:

- Applies hiring policies that discourage discrimination against members of visible minorities (for example: anonymizing the hiring process, etc.)
- Offers mentorship programs that pair members of visible minorities with experienced employees