Seafood Plant Manager

**Arctic Pearl **is a diversified family-owned and operated vertically integrated fishing, cold storage, construction, and real estate development company. This forward thinking, tech-savvy organization takes pride in providing its staff with the tools to develop professionally and succeed and views the upward progression of its employees as integral to the growth and success of the company.

We are looking for a **permanent full-time** for a **Seafood Plant Manager **in **Richmond, BC**. This position is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to work for a great company in a long-term and stable role.

**Work Hours**:

- Monday to Friday; 8:30AM - 5:00PM with a 30-minute lunch

**Responsibilities**:
The Seafood Plant Manager ensures high levels of finished product quality & customer satisfaction, while operating as a “low cost” producer within a safe and healthy work environment for all employees.

This position is responsible for adhering to good manufacturing practices, health & safety and human resources standards, promoting and leading positive employee relations and initiatives, and has direct and significant impact on profit and loss metrics.

This leader should clearly know and understand the value of maximizing employee discretionary performance, through an engaging leadership style. They should clearly understand that sustainable long term results can only be achieved through a team that:

- Understands and focuses their energy on the key objectives that drive success.
- Has the skill set needed to execute against the business need.
- Has a high desire to contribute and win.

**Position Responsibilities**:

- Accountable for production costs, labor utilization, yields, results of Operations, cost improvement and Lean initiatives. Assists in setting and meeting “OCI” (Operations Cost Improvement) targets.
- Seeks continuous improvement in quality, safety and cost.
- Develops, recommends, and implements the maintenance improvement plan for the plant, including the preparation and execution of the annual capital expenditure budget for this location.
- Responsible for preparing and executing the plant’s annual overhead budget, and “direct product cost” targets.
- Ensures that the Company’s quality promise is implemented and supported through the adherence of good manufacturing practices, and that audit targets are achieved.
- Ensures that customer service level targets are met through the synchronization of manufacturing processes/activities with all functional areas - from “demand planning” to “customer delivery”.
- Manages the performance of hourly and salaried manufacturing personnel via effective implementation of Human Resources processes and policies.
- Maintains and builds a productive/positive employee relations environment.
- Sets and meets all “Health and Safety” audit targets
- Accountable for all aspects of “Quality Assurance”, and for meeting customer product specifications as well as “Food Safety” criteria.
- Supports Marketing/Sales with regard to new & existing product development initiatives.
- Applies knowledge and ensures compliance (where required) with CFIA, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Environment, Health and Safety, and other legislative bodies that impact plant performance.
- Negotiation and management of CBA
- Relationship with key suppliers (equipment, services etc.)

**MANDATORY COMPLIANCE**:

- Must follow and enforce the policies and procedures of plant HACCP/GMP program.
- Must follow and enforce all plant Health and Safety policies and procedures.
- Must follow and enforce the Food Safety and Quality Promise.
- Must lead by example.

**PREFERRED HIRING CRITERIA**:

- The successful applicant will have a minimum of 10 years of management experience in a “perishable” food, preferable seafood, processing plant in addition to a post-secondary diploma or degree.
- This position requires demonstrated leadership, superior communication and interpersonal skills, initiative, drive strong results orientation and capability within a complex manufacturing environment.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills with the proven ability to manage multiple priorities and lead the work of others.
- Ability to coach and mentor others both within and outside direct line of accountability.
- Excellent planning and organizational skills with proven ability to manage multiple priorities and lead the work of others.
- Intermediate skills with Office tools such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook.

**Salary**: From $65,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Extended health care

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Richmond, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- plant management: 10 years (preferred)
- seafood processing: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: One location

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