Company Background
Donald’s Fine Foods is a family-owned business and has operated for over 30 years. We are a specialty meat processing and distribution company spanning six plants in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, serving both domestic and international markets.
Company Values
- Integrity – Do the right thing in all circumstances. Honesty and transparency in everything we do.
- Ethical – Always moving forward with a respectful, fair and equitable approach, promoting sustainable practices.
- Creativity – Pursue and achieve innovation with passion, purpose, ingenuity and curiosity. Responsibility – Be accountable for all our actions, decisions, and results.
- Community – Foster a sense of community both within the company and external stakeholders, through engagement, collaboration, and support.
Brief Job Description
The Production Manager role ensures the efficient and integrated operation of the production assets, people, and processes. Reporting to the Plant Manager the incumbent will manage the operations footprint to improve productivity and minimize downtime, towards improved revenue generation and reducing costs. This is a position that involves meeting goals, creating workflow policies and procedures, creating / managing schedules, and encouraging staff to comply with the procedures, systems, and policies to ensure peak efficiency. The Production Manager will work collaboratively with other departments towards achieving common goals focused on customer fulfillment. New product development and product improvement are focuses as well. As a member of the site leadership team, the production manager will ensure compliance with all applicable plant and corporate rules and regulations. To be successful, this position will require shop floor presence of at least 70%.
Responsibilities
Critical Objectives
Oversees Case Ready Operations / Smokehouse Operations / Production Planning / New Product Development.Productivity / Yield improvements.Works collaboratively with unionized staff and managerial colleagues.Manages with Collective Bargaining Agreement.Ensures the Health and Safety of employees.Ensures the lowest cost while complying with correct specifications.Complies with all Food Safety requirements and standards.Leads and encourages staff to operate at high levels of effectiveness.Performance management of all production employees.Operational Efficiency
Smokehouse asset and scheduling management.Production planning in conjunction with the sales and marketing teams.Develops and implements lead times from production to shipping.Plans short, medium, and long term manpower requirements.Liaises with human resources to ensure appropriate staffing levels in facility.Assists in preparing the weekly crewing schedules.Reviews and approve timecards and payroll reports.Liaises with the sales team and the production staff to ensure sales requirements are metPerforms critical product analysis as to meat, ingredient, and general product profile and equipment requirements for each product.Manages labour costs and yields to budget targets.Coordinates with purchasing department on all raw material requirements.Demonstrably committed to continuously improving manufacturing operations and processes, maximizing fiscal responsibility.Maintains our customer expectations with fill rates over 99%.Minimizes waste generation in all process flows.Understands the inventory processes associated with all production materials in the finished product (meat, ingredients, dry goods).Quality And Specifications
Provides necessary feedback to the production team to ensure customer satisfaction by ensuring appropriate specifications.Responds to customer complaints and non-conformance issues by determining the root cause and recommended improvement process.Performs shelf-life testing and probable expiry date.Maintains operational compliance with all GMPs.Compliance
Enforces HACCP / CFIA and food safety regulations.Ensures all products and labels meet CFIA / Export market requirements.Ensures maintains or exceed BRC Certification M standards.Maintains and updates product specifications in conjunction with the sales team.Understands and develops critical control points for product management.Safety
Provides a safe working environment for all employees.Ensures compliance to the Work Safe BC and Company operating procedures and policies.Emulates safe working practices and standards required by all employees.Implements safety programs that emphasize employee engagement and cooperation.Leadership
Maintains positive employee relationsLeads in a manner that exemplifies honesty, integrity quality and trustLeads in a way that encourages direct reports to model leadership behavioursDevelops team and a strong succession talent pipelineFacilitates and promotes the achievement of Company objectives in terms of product quality, efficiency targets and customer serviceBusiness Knowledge
Knowledge of meat, food ingredients, technology and equipmentKnowledge of packaging material and technologiesKnowledge of ethnic market trends and productsKnowledge of consumer trendsCapability to put together cut tests including yield and labour costs Additional duties as assignedOther
Other duties as required
Critical KPIs
Monthly / Year End Cost versus budgetEffective management of labour expense vs budgetMaintenance downtime and equipment performanceHACCP / CFIA / BRC AuditsTurnover%Lost Days / RIR %Yield managementEmployee safety and health and welfare statisticsPosition Requirements & Skills
Extensive Floor presence, ~10% on floor management.Food manufacturing experience for 3+ yearsValid Driver's licenseProven leadership experience as both an individual contributor and active team member3+ years' experience in the meat industry with experience running a production floorSmokehouse experience a major assetAbility to build rapport quickly with key members of the executive team.Understanding of the key role production has on customer needsManage projects on time and on-budgetTalent management, development, and successionWorking knowledge of office and business IS systems.Ability to create accountability and to lead by example.Strong team building, decision-making and people management skills.Degree in Business Management; Food Science; Engineering or related field.Legally eligible to work in Canada.Effective Communication and Time Management Skills.Collaborative Leadership and Interpersonal Skills.Critical-Thinking Skills.Organizational Planning Skills.Analytical based Problem-Solving Skills.Computer / System literacy – Microsoft Office; Inventory / Planning / Scheduling Software.