Production Manager

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Production Manager for a direct hire opportunity in Bolton, ON within a food and beverage production environment. This is a strong opportunity for a hands-on manufacturing leader who enjoys building high-performing teams, improving production flow, and ensuring food products are manufactured safely, efficiently, and to quality standards.

The Production Manager will oversee daily kitchen, production, and packaging operations while leading Production Supervisors and a large hourly workforce. This role works closely with Operations, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, Warehouse, Purchasing, Human Resources, temporary staffing partners, and other internal teams to keep production running smoothly.

This position offers a stable straight day shift schedule, a collaborative plant environment, and the opportunity to make a direct impact on production performance, food safety, employee engagement, and operational improvement. The ideal candidate will bring strong leadership, practical production floor experience, and a continuous improvement mindset.

Key Responsibilities

- Oversee daily food production, kitchen, and packaging operations to meet production targets, schedules, quality standards, and customer deadlines.
- Lead, coach, and manage Production Supervisors, hourly employees, and temporary employees to support safe, efficient, and consistent operations.
- Monitor work in progress, inventory, product yields, waste, materials usage, and production records to identify issues and improve performance.
- Ensure production SOPs are followed, maintained, and updated while supporting compliance with HACCP, GMP, SQF, sanitation, and Health and Safety requirements.
- Partner with Maintenance to address equipment breakdowns, recurring mechanical issues, downtime, machine setup, troubleshooting, and process improvements.
- Coordinate temporary staffing requirements with staffing agencies and manage related production support activities, including lab coat collection records with the linen service provider.

Compensation and Benefits

- Salary: $85,000 to $100,000 per year, depending on experience.
- Job Type: Direct hire.
- Schedule: Monday to Thursday, 6:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Friday, 6:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
- Flexibility required to come in early or stay later as needed.
- Benefits: Health, dental, and vision coverage with 50/50 cost sharing.
- Paid sick days: 2 paid sick days.
- Safety shoe allowance.
- Straight day shift.