Jr. Supervisor

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The **Junior Supervisor for the Evisceration department **is the key leader on the floor for all day-to-day activities and is responsible to lead and implement continuous improvements in yield and labour productivity, through the regular refinement of production processes and training

**Responsibilities**:
**Production management**
- Ensure the Evis room is set up before operations begin
- Daily inspection on the Live End, Evis, Chillers and Air Chill to ensure the rooms are ready for the operation
- Consistently ensuring the birds are treated accordingly to the Animal Welfare standards (checking the birds in the early mornings)
- Implement lean manufacturing (eg. 5S, reducing handling of the product)
- Ensure compliance with GMP and HAACP plans
- Ensure productivity and yield record keeping is being measured and recorded
- Have a continuous presence on the production floor to provide immediate feedback, resolution and instruction to any issue impacting production’s ability to meet its goals
- Ensure the data is collected for the applicable areas
- Determine the kill sequencing and feed withdrawal
- Schedule West Coast for offal room garbage pick up
- Approve and ensure the employee daily hours are submitted to payroll
- Analyze production and quality control to detect problems and perform root cause analysis
- Review and adjust the schedule as needed

**Leadership**
- Ensure all staff are trained in their full-time roles
- Promote motivation, support and guidance to all employees
- Ensure staff are cross-trained and rotated to avoid injury
- Schedule according to the needs of the business
- Management of direct reports including - hiring, performance management (counselling conversations), and holding employee accountable
- Support the discipline meetings with staff members, people and culture
- Understand the Collective Agreement and answer staff questions
- Attend the Health and Safety meetings
- Promote teamwork and harmonious working relationship among all workers
- Ensuring health and safety regulations are met
- Bring forth new ideas to improve on existing production processes
- Be a leader in changing the company’s culture to culture of ownership
- Attend monthly management reviews MMR
- Lead daily Red Zone huddles and KPI reports

**Requirements**:

- 2+ years progressively responsible production supervision
- Knowledge of Animal Welfare
- Primary Poultry processing experience
- Technical Training HAACP and quality systems
- Direct supervisory skills essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Proficient spoken and written English

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $50,000.00-$60,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Tuition reimbursement

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Ability to commute/relocate:

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