Plant Supervisor

**ORGANIZATION**

Freshstone Brands Inc. is a market leader in the home meal replacement (HMR) market, with fresh food and fresh ideas at the heart of our business. We are a premier manufacturer of high-quality prepared food products that services the retail, foodservice, and co-manufacturing channels. FBI has 6 kitchens and 1 distribution center, which are strategically located across Canada and within geographic proximity to the US market. Our core values of people, teamwork, customers, priority focused, and continuous improvement are fundamental to everything we do.

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Responsible for all plant activities including production, warehouse, Sanitation and inventory management. Overseeing, and managing employees’ daily activities and holding them accountable. Provide daily reports to leadership team and identifying any gaps from shift and put corrective actions in place to mitigate issues.

**RESPONSIBILITIES AND WORK PERFORMED**:
**Shipping and Receiving**
- Prioritize all short orders based on requirements from planner and distribution center.
- Inventory Management including cycle counts, by collaborating with the night shipper and day shipper.
- Coordinate and document transfer of materials between DC and Freshstone Brands Kitchen
- Allocate all transfer orders to the staging area in warehouse including freezer and cooler.
- Monitor progress of orders and product through the plant and follow up on delays and missing product with Supervisors and Production Scheduler to determine when product will be made. If necessary, modify carrier schedule to coordinate with timing of product completion
- Advise DC for any rush orders or delays.
- Monitoring scanning compliance in factory and holding employees accountable.
- Providing WH employees and monitor their performance, making improvements where possible.
- Special projects and assignments as required by Manager
- Follow to WH KPI’s and reporting

**Production**
- Adhere to daily production schedule, ensuring line efficiency is achieved and required output is met.
- Manage completion of work orders in accordance with production schedule
- Review work orders for the shift, assemble recipes and raw ingredients and assign priorities.
- Monitor flow of production and revise priorities as necessary
- Check completed batches to ensure quality standards are met. Take corrective action if necessary.
- Minimize waste and maximize production efficiency.
- Responsible for food quality and safety, promoting the SQF program and ensuring adherence to its requirements.
- Ensure compliance with HACCP, standard operating procedures, and health and safety policies.
- Manage labor costs, controlling regular and overtime hours.
- Coordinate with other supervisors and reassign workers as necessary to meet priorities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of operations.
- Special projects and assignments as per business needs

**Sanitation Supervision**
- Provide orientation and training to new sanitation if necessary.
- Managing the pre-op team.
- Conduct toolbox meetings, communicating any issues of concern, reviewing existing procedures, and introducing any new procedures, as necessary.
- Conduct monthly safety talks in accordance with schedule of topics provided by JHSC
- Direct and supervise employee activities, setting priorities for the shifts
- Ensure that employees are working safely, following safe work practices and wearing required PPE.
- Manage employee attendance and performance, ensuring that employees are working productively and efficiently and following established GMPs and SOPs
- Provide reinstruction, training, correction, positive feedback or discipline as required.
- Ensure all employees are working safely and following LOTO procedures.
- Oversee and managing external cleaners nightly.

**Administrative Responsibilities**
- Confirm daily attendance and ensure completion of emergency evacuation sheet
- Review / confirm employee work hours electronically for temporary and full-time staff and make corrections as required.
- Manage vacation schedule and arrange for temporary assistance to cover vacation periods when necessary
- Conduct shift meetings to review existing procedure or introduce new procedure, as necessary

**SQF Responsibilities**
- Responsible for food quality and safety, promoting the SQF program and ensuring department adherence to the SQF program

**REQUIRED SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE**:

- Strong supervisory skills
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Thorough knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, and Health and Safety regulations
- Good computer skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, ACCPAC)

**EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**:

- 3 to 5 years supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment required
- Shipping / receiving experience required
- Forklift experience an asset
- Experience in a food processing plant preferred

**WORKING CONDITIONS**:

- Mid-night Shift/ Flexibility in covering other shift