Shift Coordinator

**What are we looking for?**:
Provide leadership on shift in partnership with the Shift Manager and Maintenance technician to successfully coordinate and lead manufacturing operations ensuring all work performed is in compliance with Safe Work Practices, Quality Standards, Standard Operating Procedures, and company policies.

**What will be your key responsibilities?**

**Accountabilities**
- The Shift Coordinator is responsible for coordination of production, efficiency, scrap, and resources on shift with secondary ownership of shift maintenance and optimizing equipment downtime.
- In absence of the Shift Manager, takes responsible for and accountable for supervising the team in accordance with Ontario Occupation Health and Safety Act, Mars Health and Safety policies and Safe Work procedures
- Owns fMOS implementation for the team
- Evaluate the individual performance and contribution of all team members and provides input to the Shift Manager on an on-going basis to assist in establishing developmental plans.
- Responsible for the associates training on CCPs and Quality Checks
- Provides input and collaborates with the Shift Manager to Coordinate team engagement.
- Implements continuous improvement, recommends improvements, and implements upgrades for recurring production issues or process improvements
- Actively participates in functional improvement activities such as area teams, changeover reduction activities, scrap reduction activities
- Takes ownership of the completion of complicated changeovers and significantly improves the performance of the plant and achieving the business goals of production, quality, hygiene, cost and safety through a focused effort on area reliability.
- Follows up on all unresolved production issues with oncoming shift, obtains adequate information from previous shift and ensures overall smooth transition between shifts to maximize continued efficient production
- Partners and builds strong ties to other shift Coordinators to ensure alignment between shifts.
- Actively tracks and assures accuracy in shift metric measurement to help evaluate both productivity and individual performance and contribution on an on-going basis
- Use systems and metrics to guide the initiation and execution of safety, quality, productivity and continuous improvement initiatives in support of the Operations Strategic Plan and Production Plan
- Active members and leaders in either the JHSC or HACCP
- Acts as a specialized operations resource to senior management to support resolution of complex technical and operations related issues
- Perform additional related duties as required

**Responsibilities**
- Shipping and Logistics Teams
- Maintenance & Reliability Teams
- CVS and Engineering Project Teams
- Contractor Management

**Critical Competencies**
- Demonstrated leadership experience and capability, particularly in the areas of approachability, influencing others, managing diversity, setting goals and objectives and measuring performance
- Demonstrated ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast paced environment
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Demonstrated capability in Coaching and Developing
- Demonstrated capability in Conflict management
- Excellent written and spoken English communication skills

**Technical Knowledge and Skills**
- Proven experience in technical and other problem solving.
- Organizational and time management skills
- Demonstrate a high level of numerical, statistics, and trending skills
- Excellent troubleshooting skills
- Proven ability to optimize equipment to meet or exceed product specifications, schedule, and planned rates
- Computer literacy with Microsoft Office programs and exposure to SAP

**Critical Learning Experiences**
- Preferable BASc Eng, BASc Food Science, or BSc
- Demonstrated ability to continuously improve an area/equipment operation

**What can you expect from Mars?**:

- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.